Manager, Product
Chicago, IL 
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Posted 9 days ago
Job Description
Our Product Managers work with business stakeholders and end users to surface product ideas and enhancement requests for Echo Global Logistics' proprietary enterprise technologies and serve as people leaders to product owners who support our Agile Delivery Teams. Our proprietary software was created to simplify transportation management for our clients. You will help support the architectural vision of quality, scalability, performance, and function. You will help build a world class technology platform.

Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation management services. As a third-party logistics provider, we simplify transportation management for our clients and carriers, handling crucial tasks so they can focus on what they do best. From coast to coast, dock to dock, and across all major transportation modes, Echo connects businesses that need to ship their products with carriers who transport goods quickly, securely, and cost-effectively.

Crain's Business recently ranked Echo as a Top 25 Tech Employer in Chicago. We've also been recognized as the top 3PL provider. We're seeking passionate, driven and imaginative minds to join our team and help carry out our mission of providing our clients with best-in-class service and technology!

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as Product Manager to multiple Agile delivery teams and provide tactical direction to the Product, Engineering, and UX resources that support those teams.
  • Lead, mentor, and support a team of Product Owners throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Act as the communication conduit between business stakeholders, end users and the application development team.
  • Lead product discovery sessions and the development of product visions, release plans and product backlogs.
  • Understand the business processes, business requirements, and business priorities; define product solutions based on business needs. Define key success metrics for product releases; report on metrics to key stakeholders to gauge overall product health.
  • Define product launch and training requirements; support and execute training as required.
  • Work with Beta user groups to test new products and gather feedback

Position Requirements:

  • 5+ years of Product Based Experience.
  • Undergraduate Degree preferred or equivalent work experience.
  • Transportation / Logistics Industry experience strongly preferred.
  • Extensive exposure to the full software development lifecycle experience in an Agile environment
  • Strong and proven skills in creating quality documents such as user stories/acceptance criteria, business requirements/use cases, process flows, product backlogs.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate business and market problems and apply technology and domain knowledge to identify appropriate solutions.
  • Basic understanding of database concepts, including design, optimization, and SQL query language a plus

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.


All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
5+ years
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