• Phoenix, Arizona
• Salary: $100000 - $150000 per year
• Full time Contract

Requisition #770

The Department of Administration (ADOA) - Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology (ASET) Office develops and executes the statewide IT strategy for Arizona state government and provides IT infrastructure and services to state agencies to ensure continuity of mission critical and essential systems. ASET is managed by Arizona’s State CIO and serves as an information technology leader for the State of Arizona government. Our team is looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate, highly skilled, committed to successful project execution and superior customer service to lead our Business One Stop initiative. The Business One Stop initiative provides a single online location to help citizens & businesses plan, start, grow, move, & close businesses in Arizona. More information on Business One Stop is available at: https://businessonestop.az.gov/     

Roles & Responsibilities    

• Serves as the product owner using their high-level perspective across multiple IT disciplines to define goals and create a vision for growth and operations of Business One Stop. 
• Manages the core product and implementation team, directs and oversees the core product and the enterprise expansion of the platform Serves as project champion embracing and articulating project goals, objectives and outcomes for projects such as cloud technologies, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, digitization, enterprise-wide applications and managed partnerships 
• Manages the product teams to drive results and successes
• Manages the entire product life cycle from discovery through lessons learned. 
• Manages the program’s budget, schedule, and scope 
• Creates and manages the product backlog and prioritizes based on the overall strategy and business objectives.
• Communicating with stakeholders across the board, including multiple agency executives, customers, business managers, and development teams to ensure proper product alignment 
• Works with project resources, including procurement and vendors, to assure project health 
• Ensures all teams are working together and steps in when needed to help facilitate activities and move the program and product forward in a cohesive manner 
• Understands, monitors and reports on project tasks, milestones and deliverables. Guides project teams to define requirements, user stories, sprint plans, testing, backlog grooming, and product roadmap adherence.  

️KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs):  

• Product Owner - Solid understanding of user experience best practices. Able to articulate requirements and decisions to help build a better product. Strives to maintain a holistic view of the product and ensure that the end-to-end experience is strong. Able to align agency teams on product vision and release goals through strategic road mapping and product backlog management. Proactive Orientation - Strong ability to identify and resolve risks/issues/changes  
• Takes Ownership - Commitment to actions that lead to success for self/team/organization  
• Drives to Results – Track record of project results (with increasing levels of difficulty) 
• Customer Focus - Strong customer service orientation  
• Excellent Communicator - Strong verbal, written and facilitation skills;  
• Personable - Strong team/stakeholder interactions and working relationships;  
• Effective with IT professionals Delivery - Strong planning, organization and presentation skills  
• Knowledge Areas - Waterfall, Lean, Kanban, Agile, hybrid, Scrum, Scrum of Scrums and Jira 

Experience Required:  The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in a program or product management or similar role utilizing established processes/protocols.