Product Manager III
RackspacePosted 3/11/2025
Product Manager III
Rackspace
Job Location
Salary Range
97k - 166k USD / YEAR
Job Summary
As a Product Manager III at Rackspace Technology, you will lead programs and projects from start to finish, ensuring achievement of strategic revenue objectives for specific products or product families. You will work with various teams to identify integration points, potential impact, and application dependencies. Key responsibilities include writing user stories, elaborating requirements, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and communicating development team LOE to Product & Project Management. The role requires advanced knowledge of coordinating and monitoring projects, developing business processes, and evaluating areas for efficiency gains. You will also be responsible for team metrics, end-user meetings, and defining system, functional, and non-functional requirements. The position offers a competitive salary range ($96,800 - $142,010) and variable compensation based on performance. Rackspace Technology is committed to equal employment opportunity and welcomes applications from diverse candidates.
Job Description
Job Summary: As our Program Manager IV you have the opportunity to Lead a program or multiple projects from start to finish. In this role you’ll Inspire confidence in the team, senior management, and the business community with implementing project solutions. You’ll be ensuring achievement of strategic revenue objectives for a specific product or product family.
Work Location: US-Remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Write user stories, elaborate requirements, and assist in the development of acceptance tests.
- Be available to the development teams to clarify ambiguity around product requirements.
- Raise resource concerns to development management and product management.
- Facilitate all Agile Ceremonies including but not limited to: Stand Ups, Sprint. Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews/Demos.
- Remove or help resolve impediments for the development team.
- Participates in the Approved Intake Review process and gathers requests for the sprint backlog.
- Facilitate the prioritization of the sprint and sprint backlog.
- Enforce priorities from leadership and product management to the development team.
- Communicate development teams LOE to Product & Project Management.
- Ensure development team remains on sprint schedule and sprint goals are met.
- Ensure development team creates and maintains technical documentation.
- Responsible for team metrics including but not limited to velocity, cycle time and sprint reports, sprint health, release health, application statistics, etc.
- Meet with end-users and product management to understand business processes in stakeholder meetings.
- Define system, functional and non-functional requirements for the product as user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with various teams to identify integration points, potential impact and application dependencies.
- Facilitate UAT Sessions to gather feedback and future feature requests on behalf of the development team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field required, master’s degree preferred. Additional experience may substitute for the degree requirement at a rate of 3 years of experience for 1 year of education.
- 5+ years related experience (technology and/or product management).
- Advanced knowledge of coordinating and monitoring projects from initiation through delivery.
- Advanced knowledge of developing and documenting business processes.
- Advanced knowledge of developing and documenting product requirements docs.
- Advanced knowledge of evaluating business processes and identifying areas where efficiencies may be gained.
- Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation, human relations, and organizational skills.
- Expert knowledge of the following domains: IT industry and product domain.
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The following information is required by pay transparency legislation in the following states: CA, CO, HI, NY, and WA. This information applies only to individuals working in these states.
· The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $96,800 - $142,010.
· The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $103,100 - $151,140.
· The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $112,900 - $165,550.
Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments. These discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. #LI-MF1
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
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