Posted at: 20 February

Manager, Product Management (govDelivery)

Company

Granicus

Granicus is a technology company specializing in a civic engagement platform for the public sector, providing cloud-based solutions to government agencies across the United States with a remote-first workforce.

Remote Hiring Policy:

Granicus is a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce, hiring from various regions including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

New Zealand, Oceania

Salary

$100,000 to $130,000 per year

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Job Description

Granicus is looking for a skilled Manager, Product Management with deep interest in software and its ability to impact global democracy, citizen engagement, and increased government transparency. No company in the world reaches more people on behalf of public organizations as Granicus – and this individual will serve as both the internal and external evangelist for the solutions that make that happen. You possess a unique blend of technical and business savvy; a big-picture vision as well as the drive and attention to detail that transforms vision into a reality.

This role requires leading product owners across 4 geographically hybrid scrum teams to execute against a govDelivery roadmap that is central to Granicus platform innovation strategy in 2025. You will support a team of world-class engineers, product owners and designers throughout product lifecycle. You will design systems and processes to facilitate effect team delivery against roadmap goals. The team will be responsible for gathering business requirements from cross-functional stakeholders, building the vision of what needs to be built, and working across Engineers, Scrum Masters, Designers, Data Analysts, and the Leadership team to deliver on that vision.
What You're Impact Will Look Like:
  • Support a team of world-class engineers, product owners and designers throughout product lifecycle.
  • Develops and maintains a near-real time picture of concept attainment across 4 scrum teams, including the “why” behind the attainment in relation to levers like initial estimates, velocity, scope change, concept status, etc.
  • Leads POs and govD teams in effective program increment planning on a quarterly basis.
  • Develops operations excellence to promote health and hygiene of the govD backlogs and releases across value streams (e.g. security vulnerabilities, CSIs, support, etc.)
  • Facilitates effective cross-functional communications across product management, engineering, cloud, support, implementation, solutions consulting, and customer success teams.
  • Effectively manages tradeoffs associated with delivering roadmap concepts and maintaining the products, engaging senior leadership to support in decision-making when necessary.
  • Sets high expectations related to PO command of the govD tools and how they are intended to work.
  • Leads daily standups, in partnership with govD Director, across PM and POs to facilitate effective govD roadmap planning and attainment.
  • Proven success in communicating, presenting, and selling ideas to senior executives.
  • Act as a mentor and resource to other Product team members.
  • Participate in the continuous improvement and scaling of Product Management best practices at Granicus.
You will love this role if you have / are:
  • 4+ combined years in Product Management.
  • Fluency in JIRA and Aha!
  • Experience in marketing automation and/or digital engagement platforms is an added bonus.
  • You will love this job if you have:
  • Demonstrated ability to build quantitative business cases and financial models.
  • Demonstrated experience with complex, transformational roadmap initiatives.
  • Experience delivering high-quality technology products/services in a fast-moving environment where priorities and structures shift rapidly.
  • Success working in an agile environment.
  • High level of intellectual curiosity drives you to ask great questions and seek supporting data to interpret the most important needs of the product.
  • Excellent organizational and quantitative analytical skills.
  • Technical depth that enables you to understand and earn the respect of the engineers you work with.
  • Ability to break the long-term vision down into specific, manageable deliverables that deliver user value as quickly as possible.
  • Ability to think strategically with the capacity to expand customer use cases into platform-wide requirements.
  • Demonstrated success in working with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent communication skills regardless of the audience — software engineers, product designers, business stakeholders, users, etc.
Security Requirements
  • Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
The Team
- We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture
- At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be
a part of our journey.
- A few culture highlights include – Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
- Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and
sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.
- Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.-=- - We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee
population

The Impact
- We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.
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