Product Owner - Chat Messaging

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What you’ll be doing...

Our team focuses on the Sales Chat and Messaging product experience within our VBG digital organization. The group has built a chat product management practice across all customer touch points to deliver a seamless, personable and natural chat experience. The program is a key enabler to deliver the best in class end to end customer experience for VBG.

We’re seeking a product manager to improve on our chat/messaging CX across our entire digital sales funnel. In this role, you’ll be working with a hardworking and driven team of experts in the chat/messaging world with an aligned goal to drive growth through our chat & messaging experiences.

• Develop a customer-first roadmap defining the long term product strategy around sales chat/messaging. Work closely with a variety of partners and cross-functional product teams to execute the roadmap by planning and prioritizing objectively.
• Focus on our learn/upper funnel and lead gen type of chat/messaging efforts.
• Partner with demand gen product managers to gather requirements and deliver top funnel conversion.
• For features with front-end dependencies: working with designers in identifying problem areas related to product experience and conduct research for identifying unmet needs of the customer.
• Capture, document, and communicate business requirements.
• Translate requirements into features and user stories.
• Develop product and solution requirements, working backwards from the customer.
• Collaborate regularly and independently with the GTS/engineering teams to transfer knowledge of the customer needs and ensure the technical solution designed solves for customer and business needs.
• Provide perspective and thought leadership on emerging industry trend to improve the customer experience.
• Keep leadership team and partners updated on the product roadmap status including dependencies that could impact deliverables along with mitigation steps.

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

A successful candidate will have experience with building products from end-to-end, experience working in chat and messaging technology areas with data, machine learning, and an ability to build and maintain key relationships with stakeholders. In this role you will show creativity, experimentation and innovation, while driving initiatives with urgency in this fast-paced environment. This candidate is someone with a high degree of ownership, who likes experimenting and setting high standards, with a roll up your sleeves attitude. Must be able to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities. This person must have a high degree of autonomy with the ability to develop solutions and drive projects forward with minimal guidance.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology.
• Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience developing and deploying chatbot solutions.
• Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A degree.
• Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
• Experience working cross functionally (product, design, engineering, usability, content development).
• Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management.
• Experience working in and collaborating across a complex Omni-channel environment.
• An understanding of segmentation, personalization and multivariate testing with the chat/messaging ecosystem.
• Experience with product development /management tools (Jira/Confluence).
• Ability to quickly understand various technology platforms and internal systems.
• Ability to think independently, strong collaboration and partnership skills and attention to detail.
• Sales chat and messaging technology experience.
• Analytical and quantitative skills, including ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases and drive improvements.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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