Product
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving impact across multiple product lines? As a trusted leader in sport drug testing administration – where integrity, innovation, and athlete safety are at our core – we’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the end-to-end product lifecycle across a portfolio of solutions that support our mission of ensuring clean and fair competition.
Location: Kansas City, MO (Hybrid) – Minimum two days in-office, three days telework.
Position Focus: The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for shaping strategy, overseeing execution, and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of multiple products across the organization. This role will align cross-functional stakeholders, ensure the delivery of measurable business outcomes, and promote a strong, customer-centric product culture throughout the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
Product Ownership
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle for assigned products or components.
- Define and refine requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Backlog and Roadmap Contribution
- Prioritize and maintain the backlog for areas of responsibility.
- Contribute to product roadmaps and release planning under the guidance of the product leader.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Facilitate Product Counsel meetings to align multiple stakeholder groups on roadmap priorities.
- Partner with external engineering, design and QA teams and internal operational teams to deliver features on time and within scope.
- Communicate timelines, updates, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to stakeholders.
User Research and Feedback
- Conduct and synthesize user research to validate problems and solutions.
- Use data and feedback loops to inform decision-making and measure product outcomes.
Execution and Delivery
- Facilitate agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives for assigned workstreams.
- Monitor product performance and recommend improvements.
- Ensure responsible use of funds by tracking budgets vs. actuals, reporting variances, exceptions, and roadblocks.
- Monitor system performance and functionality; escalate outages, recurring issues, or bottlenecks to appropriate teams and leadership.
Summary of Qualifications: To successfully perform this role, the individual must be analytical, detail-centric, and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills. The Senior Product Manager must uphold the organization’s vision, possess high integrity, and have a desire to be a positive team contributor. Essential requirements include but are not limited to:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or relevant field.
- 5+ years of product management experience.
- Proven track record of managing all stages of the product lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with multiple external development partners by balancing priorities, managing expectations, and ensuring accountability for outcomes.
- Experience with cross-functional teams.
- Prior ownership of complex product management with significant impact.
- Proficient in Agile practices and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Figma, analytics dashboards).
- Experience with wireframe and prototyping tools, backlog management tools, storyboards, and value stream diagramming.
- Ability to define Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), prioritize based on value, and make tradeoff decisions.
- Clear, persuasive communicator with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Skilled in facilitating discussions and driving alignment across teams.
- Ability to break down complex problems into actionable product plans that drive product development.
- Independently solves moderately complex problems.
- Takes accountability for results and consistently delivers on commitments.
- Effectively collaborates with multiple third-party development partners, balancing priorities, dependencies, and delivery expectations.
Core Competencies:
- Organizational Agility: Strong planning and multitasking skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Product Acumen: Deep understanding of product deliverables and consistent contribution to roadmap discussions with data-driven insights.
- Leadership and Communication: Clear communicator with the ability to influence across departments and effective coordination and communication across third-party development partners to ensure on-time, quality delivery.
- Customer Focus: Committed to internal and external service excellence.
- Integrity and Accountability: High ethical standards, dependable execution, and ownership of results; and open to feedback and applies coaching from senior product leaders.
External candidates must submit a cover letter and resume to Human Resources here. All requested materials must be received for consideration. This position is desired to be filled quickly, and application materials will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until filled.
Drug Free Sport, LLC does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.