Senior Product Manager; Remote From

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We are looking for an innovative and experienced technical Senior Product Manager to join our team  this pivotal role as our new Senior Product Manager, you will contribute to the development and delivery of technology solutions that drive business success. You will serve as a vital liaison between stakeholders, service management, and the development team, ensuring that product requirements for the Salesforce and other SaaS based platforms are clearly defined, prioritized, and delivered on schedule.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping our Platform Services product strategy and ensuring that our solutions not only meet, but exceed customer expectations. Your influence will drive outcomes that align with our strategic goals while promoting a highly tactical approach in a collaborative and supportive environment.

We're looking for an individual who wants to do the best work of their career in service of the public to design, deliver, and continuously improve services that work for Coloradans.

• Write and maintain a well-groomed backlog using user stories that are outcome-oriented, appropriately sized, and grounded in real constituent needs;
  Draft initial product backlogs for RFPs, translating problem spaces into indicative user stories that structure procurement without locking the pod into fixed, rigid scope.
• Apply frameworks such as Value vs. Effort or "Now/Next/Later" to make and defend prioritization decisions.
• Proactively manage scope by saying "no" clearly and constructively to work that does not serve the current priority.
• Run essential agile planning cycles, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Conduct quarterly roadmap conversations with stakeholders to align long-term goals with delivery capacity.
• Regularly update the Director of Platform Services, IT Director, and program staff about status in terms of outcomes (mission impact) rather than just progress (activity).
• Partner with Service Designers to understand, apply, and interpret journey maps, blueprints, and problem frames, translating these artifacts into actionable backlog inputs.to understand
• Define and track objectives and key results (OKRs) and success metrics; evaluate and communicate when shipped features fail to deliver expected outcomes.
• Build the product ownership capacity of agency staff over time, ensuring the agency becomes a stronger partner rather than a dependent.
• Manage the product's lifecycle from discovery through to ongoing continuous improvement.
• Collaborate deeply with engineering to validate technical architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with the Delivery Engineer…