Senior Software Product Manager at Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. — Pleasanton, CA

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.

Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

Learn about our company culture directly from our team.

YOU

The Senior Software Product Manager fills the product owner role in an Agile product development environment and will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinate sprints. To be successful in this role, the Senior Software Product Manager will be a product expert and need to be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams while crafting the product vision.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING (% of Time)

Partner with the Business (40%)

Partner with key stakeholders and business leaders to understand their business strategy, gather detailed product requirements, and develop meaningful value-add product enhancements (stories) to drive the business forward.

Product Planning (20%)

Plan and prioritize the product backlog on a regular basis to ensure work focuses on items with maximum value, ensuring there are always an adequate number of stories in the product backlog that meet the definition of Ready prior to planning meetings with development teams.

Guide Collaborative Product Efforts (20%)

Hold regular meetings including but not limited to the following. Product Backlog Refinement meetings with the development team prior to sprint planning to improve clarity of requirements of user stories. Sprint Planning meetings with the development team to plan sprint workload, including the collaboration of development tasks and tests. Sprint Review meetings to share sprint goals and review completed work with product stakeholders. Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals. Work with development team and technical writing team to write and manage release notes of completed features.

Leadership (10%)

Coach and mentor junior employees to provide best in class solutions for the product being created to best align their contribution towards the products impact on the overall organizational success by using effective leadership techniques, including establishing expectations and goals, providing recognition and feedback, and addressing performance problems. Empower employees to take responsibility for their career and performance. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback. Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members and the organization.

Share the Vision (10%)

Work closely with Product Management to understand product strategy and vision enabling you to provide the agile development team with clear vision, direction and understanding of the product backlog.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

If you can do everything listed above, you’ve got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field, preferably in business, IT, computer science, project management or another technology-focused field.
• 5+ years of experience delivering software products in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) or similar product development environments, including AI-enabled solutions.
• Action Oriented: Ability to willingly take practical action to deal with a problem or situation in a timely manner.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Continuous Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities.
• Customer Focus: Ability to cultivate relationships that secure commitment and trust with external and internal customer needs.
• Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Influences: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners, etc. are frequently used.

TRAVEL

This position requires domestic and international travel up to 5% of the time.

WORK STATUS & LOCATION

This full-time, exempt position is eligible for remote work anywhere in the United States.

RELOCATION

Relocation is not available for this position.

PAY

$93,400 - $126,100 / year

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REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits. May exclude some positions, such as seasonal jobs.

• Quarterly Bonuses/Commission: You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe all employees affect customers, sales and revenue — directly or indirectly – and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.
• Benefits: We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including: medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more. View benefit plan details here: https://benefits.strongtie.com/.

In keeping with our values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our communities, we are an equal opportunity employer. This means that our employment decisions are based on your qualifications and merit, and our business needs.

Please note all job offers are contingent upon a successful drug screen and criminal background check, in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws.

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Company: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.