Product Manager - Agentic AI Framework

We are looking for a talented Agile Product Manager to join our team specializing in Systems/Information Technology for our Corporate organization in Columbus, IN.

• Act as the voice of the customer by deeply understanding customer needs, personas, and user problems, ensuring solutions deliver real market and business value.
• Translate customer insights, user research, and market trends into compelling problem statements that guide product strategy and solution design.
• Collaborate with Epic Owners to develop Lean business cases for Epics, aligning investments with value delivery across the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Apply portfolio and program‑level strategy by aligning product decisions with strategic themes, the Portfolio Canvas, Lean Budgets, and Guardrails.
• Own and manage the Program Backlog and Kanban flow, ensuring features are prioritized, transparent, well‑defined, and continuously ready for execution.
• Lead Program Increment (PI) planning by presenting product vision, approving PI objectives, assigning business value, and determining release timing based on delivered value.
• Partner with System and Solution Architecture to understand enablers, influence sequencing decisions, and balance technical and business priorities.
• Build and lead a strong Product Management/Product Owner team while fostering trusted relationships across the organization to consistently deliver business outcomes.

• Balances stakeholders
  - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business insight
  - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates effectively
  - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus
  - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer‑centric solutions.
• Global perspective
  - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Manages conflict
  - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Agile Systems Thinking
  - Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems to ensure the economic success of the solution.
• Building High Performance Teams
  - Identifies and applies critical skills and Lean‑Agile principles and practices in the creation of high‑performing Agile teams to construct high‑quality, well designed technical solutions.
• Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset
  - Advocates for and leads others in the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking in support of adopting and applying the 9 SAFe principles and practices for the organization.
• Lean Portfolio Management, budgets, and Economic Framework
  - Applies Lean and systems thinking approaches in support of strategy, investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance; evaluates working systems; manages Epic investments and dynamic budget adjustments to minimize overhead through funding and empowering Value Streams while maintaining financial and fit‑for‑use governance to minimize overhead; assesses and supports decision rules that align to the financial objectives of the Solution to guide the economic decision‑making process.
• Planning and Managing Ceremonies
  - Plans, schedules, and leads ceremonies that create a cadence for the team to maximize productivity, promote collaboration, maintain transparency, and inspect and adapt so the team can continuously learn and improve.
• Program Backlog Management and User Story Elaboration
  - Identifies, refines, prioritizes, and sequences backlog items using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to ensure the economic success of the solution; determines the details of a product feature to ensure that any unanswered questions about it are answered so that development can proceed.
• Values differences
  - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

• College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer…