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WGU is hiring a Staff Software Product Manager to lead cross-functional teams in defining product vision, developing strategic roadmaps, and managing technical projects. The role involves bridging technical expertise with product strategy to deliver impactful software solutions and driving continuous improvements that align with the university's operational and business goals.

Highlights

Lead collaboration with stakeholders, engineers, enterprise architects, and product leaders to define requirements and product vision.
Manage product release strategies and ensure readiness of business partners.
Create and present strategic roadmaps, oversee quarterly planning, and handle significant technical projects.
Possess deep knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture and large-scale cloud platform requirements.
Strong skills in software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
Experience with agile methodologies and ability to communicate technical and business requirements effectively.
Bachelor's Degree required; 8+ years as a Software Product Manager or Product Owner and professional product certification (e.g., CSPO) mandatory.
Preferred qualifications include a Master's Degree, education technology experience, and enterprise platform integration knowledge.
Salary range from $157,000 to $243,400, with comprehensive benefits including bonuses, insurance, retirement plans, and paid leave.
Role includes mentoring newer Product Managers and leading research for success metrics and product impact.

Staff Software Product Manager Full Description

Staff Software Product Manager

Salt Lake City Office

Full time

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 411Pay Range: $157,000.00 - $243,400.00

Job Description

Job Duties

Works closely with cross functional team of stakeholders, end-users, engineers, enterprise architects, and product leaders to understand the problems to solve, help drive the product vision and define requirements.
Plays a key role in the software development process, bridging the gap between technical expertise and product strategy.
Creates shared outcomes with multiple teams to deliver impact for customers.
Creates, manages, and regularly presents a strategic roadmap to both stakeholders and delivery teams.
Defines product release strategies, ensuring the readiness of the various business partners.
Recognized expert for their product, demonstrating mastery of the current platform with a deep understanding of gaps that inform their near-term product roadmap and helps to establish long-term strategy.
Manages expectations by understanding when initiatives are at risk and proactively communicates with stakeholders.
Leads and presents in quarterly planning activities.
Ensures product quality by testing software features to ensure the satisfy the acceptance criteria and works with stakeholders and end users to coordinate user acceptance testing activities.
Mentors and guides newer Product Managers.
Leads research efforts to provide clarity from ambiguity and develops data collection strategies that identify the right outcomes for measuring success.
Defines a plan for capturing success metrics for their products and projects and consistently monitors the metrics, pivoting when the data suggests a need to do so.
Writes business cases and conducts ROI and other value analyses.
Maintains responsibility for managing significant/complex technical projects at this level, involving delegation of work and review of work products.
Develops technology modernization roadmaps that enable constant iterative improvements that correspond with operational and business requirements of the university.
Leads key technical projects and programs and may facilitate leadership and development of technical teams.
Works to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures, and practices.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

KSAs

Possesses a deep understanding and technical background in Service Oriented Architecture.
Understands the scope of cloud computing and how to work with software architecture to identify the best practices to deliver high-scale platforms, built for reliability, sustainability, and addressing security vulnerabilities.
Ability to create design artifacts that provide visual and narrative detail of architectural requirements, decisions, and designs to provide linkage between architecture, engineering, infrastructure, enterprise security, and feature-driven product teams.
Ability to easily communicate technical issues and business requirements and value-based outcomes that are required to address platform scale specifications.
Understands and learns the nature of legacy enterprise platform architecture with all of the nuances required to build bridges for future capabilities while maintaining current operational excellence.
Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
Leadership instincts with a positive team building approach
Strong problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and make critical decisions regarding software architecture and development.
Ability to think strategically about product architecture, align it with business goals, and make decisions that have long-term impact on product development and success.
Deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices
Knowledge of various programming languages, databases, cloud technologies, and software methodologies
Ability to communicate with parties within and outside of the university (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)
Strong passion for exploring and understanding large scale cloud platform requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree
8 years of experience as a Software Product Manager or Product Owner
Professional Product Certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Marketing)
Experience working in agile environments
Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree
Experience in Education Technology
Experience in large enterprise platforms and integrations

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

Original Job Description

Staff Software Product Manager

Salt Lake City Office

Full time

Job Description

Job Duties

Works closely with cross functional team of stakeholders, end-users, engineers, enterprise architects, and product leaders to understand the problems to solve, help drive the product vision and define requirements.
Plays a key role in the software development process, bridging the gap between technical expertise and product strategy.
Creates shared outcomes with multiple teams to deliver impact for customers.
Creates, manages, and regularly presents a strategic roadmap to both stakeholders and delivery teams.
Defines product release strategies, ensuring the readiness of the various business partners.
Recognized expert for their product, demonstrating mastery of the current platform with a deep understanding of gaps that inform their near-term product roadmap and helps to establish long-term strategy.
Manages expectations by understanding when initiatives are at risk and proactively communicates with stakeholders.
Leads and presents in quarterly planning activities.
Ensures product quality by testing software features to ensure the satisfy the acceptance criteria and works with stakeholders and end users to coordinate user acceptance testing activities.
Mentors and guides newer Product Managers.
Leads research efforts to provide clarity from ambiguity and develops data collection strategies that identify the right outcomes for measuring success.
Defines a plan for capturing success metrics for their products and projects and consistently monitors the metrics, pivoting when the data suggests a need to do so.
Writes business cases and conducts ROI and other value analyses.
Maintains responsibility for managing significant/complex technical projects at this level, involving delegation of work and review of work products.
Develops technology modernization roadmaps that enable constant iterative improvements that correspond with operational and business requirements of the university.
Leads key technical projects and programs and may facilitate leadership and development of technical teams.
Works to influence parties within and outside of the job function at an operational level regarding policies, procedures, and practices.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

KSAs

Possesses a deep understanding and technical background in Service Oriented Architecture.
Understands the scope of cloud computing and how to work with software architecture to identify the best practices to deliver high-scale platforms, built for reliability, sustainability, and addressing security vulnerabilities.
Ability to create design artifacts that provide visual and narrative detail of architectural requirements, decisions, and designs to provide linkage between architecture, engineering, infrastructure, enterprise security, and feature-driven product teams.
Ability to easily communicate technical issues and business requirements and value-based outcomes that are required to address platform scale specifications.
Understands and learns the nature of legacy enterprise platform architecture with all of the nuances required to build bridges for future capabilities while maintaining current operational excellence.
Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
Leadership instincts with a positive team building approach
Strong problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and make critical decisions regarding software architecture and development.
Ability to think strategically about product architecture, align it with business goals, and make decisions that have long-term impact on product development and success.
Deep understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices
Knowledge of various programming languages, databases, cloud technologies, and software methodologies
Ability to communicate with parties within and outside of the university (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.)
Strong passion for exploring and understanding large scale cloud platform requirements

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree
8 years of experience as a Software Product Manager or Product Owner
Professional Product Certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Pragmatic Marketing)
Experience working in agile environments
Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree
Experience in Education Technology
Experience in large enterprise platforms and integrations

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

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