Work with the Senior IT Product Manager and business stakeholders (Legal Recruiting, HR/Benefits, Finance) to elicit, document, and translate specifications into functional and technical requirements. Use SDLC and Agile to coordinate between Custom Development and Packaged Solutions teams, focusing on HR applications (performance review systems) and HR/Finance automation. Serve as an IT business driver and collaborate with developers, architects, and vendors; produce clear technical documentation and communicate with mid–senior level management and users.
Title: Product Manager
Location: Chicago, IL
Duration: 12-18 Months Contract
Rate: $Open/hr.Requirements
Responsibilities
- The role of the Product Manager is to work hand in hand with the Senior IT Product Manager, building relationships with the various teams, including but not limited to Legal Recruiting and Development, HR/Benefits, and Finance.
- The role will work closely with mid - senior level management and general business users, to elicit, document and translate specifications on applications for the departments.
- This individual will translate the specifications into functional and technical requirements, utilizing the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies, working between the Custom Development and Packaged Solutions teams.
- This position will operate as a business/practice IT driver primarily in the Human Resources application space, focusing on performance review systems
- This individual will likely also play a key role in various business process automation efforts related to the HR/Finance applications
- Thus, the applicant should have strong communication skills, verbal and written, be an active listener, possess excellent technical documentation skills and have experience in working with developers, architects and external vendors.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with IT Product Management
- Experience working on HR Technology (HCM, HRIS, ATS, LMS, etc.) and/or Financial Systems
- Professional services experience is a nice to have
Benefits
Note: If interested please send your updated resume to [email protected] and include your salary requirement along with your contact details with a suitable time when we can reach you. If you know of anyone in your sphere of contacts, who would be a perfect match for this job then, we would appreciate if you can forward this posting to them with a copy to us.
We look forward hearing from you at the earliest!
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