Senior Product Manager

Title:

Senior Product Manager

Location:

Spring, TX

Duration: 6-month contract-to-hire

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holder, or Authorized to Work in the US

Senior Product Manager

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Product Manager to support the definition, development, and delivery of internal software products and technology solutions. This role will serve as a critical link between internal customers, business stakeholders, and technical development teams, translating business challenges into clearly defined requirements, functional specifications, and actionable development initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings a strong software development background and a practical understanding of how software products are designed, built, deployed, and maintained in a complex technology environment. This individual will work closely with internal customers to understand their day-to-day challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, define solutions, and guide initiatives through execution and delivery.

This is a highly execution-oriented role for a self-directed product professional who can independently manage priorities, navigate competing stakeholder needs, and drive projects forward with minimal oversight. Success requires the ability to balance customer needs with technical feasibility and business value, communicate effectively across teams, and make informed decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities Product Definition & Requirements Management

• Engage directly with internal customers and business stakeholders to understand operational workflows, pain points, and business objectives.
• Translate customer needs and business problems into clear requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable development tasks.
• Define problems, evaluate potential solutions, and establish the expected business and user value of proposed initiatives.
• Break down business requirements into manageable work items, epics, and development priorities.
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed and understood by technical teams before development begins.

Product Execution & Delivery

• Own product initiatives from initial discovery and problem definition through solution development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Partner with software engineering, architecture, business analysis, and other technical teams to ensure solutions meet defined requirements.
• Monitor project progress, manage dependencies, resolve questions, and proactively address obstacles that could affect delivery.
• Review existing epics, processes, and development backlogs to improve readiness, prioritization, and execution.
• Maintain alignment between business expectations, technical implementation, and delivery outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, product functionality, and the overall customer experience.

Internal Customer Engagement

• Build strong relationships with internal customers to develop a deep understanding of their business processes and day-to-day challenges.
• Conduct discovery sessions and follow-up discussions to uncover underlying problems rather than simply documenting requested features.
• Validate requirements and proposed solutions with stakeholders throughout the development process.
• Set appropriate expectations, communicate trade-offs, and confidently manage requests that fall outside established priorities or are not feasible.
• Balance customer requests against business value, technical constraints, resource availability, and broader organizational priorities.

Technical Collaboration

• Leverage a strong understanding of software development practices, application architecture, and the software development lifecycle to guide product decisions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to assess technical feasibility, implementation considerations, dependencies, and potential risks.
• Understand architectural implications of technology decisions, including cloud infrastructure, deployment approaches, and platform dependencies.
• Work effectively with technical teams without needing to perform hands‑on coding.
• Support effective Agile and development processes, including backlog refinement, requirements clarification, prioritization, and delivery planning.

Process Improvement & Independent Leadership

• Review and refine product requirements, epics, workflows, and processes to improve development readiness and execution.
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, and opportunities before they affect…