ABOUT NEXT COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE (NCSA)

NCSA is the world's largest and most successful collegiate athletic recruiting network. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Reigning Champs LLC ( www.reigningchamps.com), NCSA's 700 teammates leverage exclusive data, proprietary matching algorithms, and personal relationships built over nearly two decades as the industry leader to connect tens of thousands of college-bound student-athletes to more than 35,000 college coaches nationwide across 34 sports every year. You can learn more about NCSA at  www.ncsasports.org.

Product Manager Job Details

As the Product/Sr. Product Manager at NCSA, you will be responsible for creating innovative and effective digital experiences for student-athletes and college coaches that help make the college recruiting process easier.  You will help define and execute the product roadmap alongside the product development and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user feedback and research with college coaches, athletes and their parents on an ongoing basis to clearly understand their needs and pain points
• Vet out potential solutions and collaborate with design and development to rapidly conceptualize, prototype, and validate new product ideas and innovations
• Lead a scrum team to drive product development by defining feature sets, developing and communicating product requirements
• Facilitate communication with business owners, development team and product team
• Identify project objectives, scope, goals, value and timeline of projects
• Write and refine user stories
• Create and manage product launch strategy
• Coordinate and lead project retrospectives
• Create documentation, process flows as needed
• Manage and report on KPI’s globally and related to strategic efforts
• Assist with support and bug management

Skills/Competencies:

• You are data-driven with strong analysis and problem solving skills
• You are a team player who works well with a variety of personas
• You are able to adapt to change in context & priorities easily
• You have strong knowledge of project management methodology, techniques and skills required to effectively manage scope, schedule, costs, communication, resources, quality and risk
• You have excellent communication skills including written and verbal with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the business
• You are able to effectively communicate trade-offs
• You are a quick-learner
• You truly enjoy talking to customers – both satisfied and unsatisfied to learn their pain points and needs
• You are a motivated self-starter, don’t need to be told what to do
• You don’t have to love sports, but you must be passionate about what we do which is helping athletes find the best college fit

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college
• 3+ years in product management or related role
• Experience with both mobile & web platforms
• Experience in an agile or Kanban environment
• Experience conducting user research
• Experience with web optimization tools
• Experience with big data, AI, machine learning a plus

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Life Insurance
• Pre-Tax Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) Match Up to 3%
• Parental Leave
• Wellness Reimbursement Program
• Online Health Assessments

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