About this role
Job Title: AI Product Manager Technical Lead
PS Job Title: AI Product Manager Sr Staff
Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid
Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC
***The preferred location for this position is New Orleans, LA or The Woodlands, TX. Other Locations within the service territory may be considered***
Job Summary/Purpose
Job Summary:
The Product Owner/Product Manager Sr. Staff role is pivotal in orchestrating product development, overseeing delivery teams (referred to as pods), and establishing and refining a repeatable and agile delivery methodology. This role involves leading and directing the daily operations of these teams, ensuring their performance aligns with established benchmarks, and cultivating an agile culture conducive to efficient product delivery.
Purpose Statement:
This role’s primary purpose is to spearhead product development efforts, leveraging organized delivery teams and maintaining a dynamic, repeatable agile delivery methodology. This entails not only leading the day-to-day activities of these teams but also monitoring and reporting their performance to ensure alignment with objectives. Moreover, fostering an agile delivery culture is paramount to this role's responsibilities because it promotes an environment where innovation, collaboration, and adaptability drive successful product delivery.
Job Duties/Responsibilities
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Project Vision: Develop and articulate a clear product vision aligned with the utility’s goals and customer needs.
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Project Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create project plans, defining scope, timelines, and resource requirements.
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Execution Oversight: Lead the execution phase, ensuring that project activities are on track and in line with the established roadmap.
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Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks that may impact project delivery, implementing contingency plans when necessary.
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Program Alignment: Ensure product initiatives align with broader program objectives and organizational strategies.
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Resource Coordination: Coordinate resources across multiple product-related projects to optimize efficiency and minimize bottlenecks.
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Program Governance: Oversee adherence of governance standards within the product management domain.
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Portfolio Strategy: Contribute to defining and refining the product portfolio strategy, aligning it with market demands and business goals.
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Performance Tracking: Monitor and assess the performance of products within the portfolio, making data-driven decisions to maximize value and ROI.
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Portfolio Optimization: Optimize the product portfolio by evaluating market trends, customer feedback, and technological advancements.
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Team Leadership: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams, including the pods, fostering a collaborative and innovative working environment.
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Product Owner: Has a broader scope, covering product management responsibilities like developing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, as well as working closely with the development team.
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Product Owner: Develop and maintain the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Prioritize the product backlog based on business value, user needs, and technical feasibility.
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Product Owner: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements, define user stories, and set acceptance criteria. Work closely with the development team to ensure stories are well-defined and the team has a clear understanding of what needs to be built. Translate requirements into user stories and epics.
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Product Owner: Responsible for product deliverables; includes accepting or rejecting work based on pre-defined acceptance criteria. Also defines and prioritizes product features.
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Change Management: Drive strategic change initiatives within the product management domain, ensuring teams adapt to evolving market landscapes and customer needs.
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Decision-making: Make informed and timely decisions, guiding teams toward successful product launches and adaptations based on market feedback.
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Product Development: Drives product development to launch and post-launch iterations.
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis: Facilitates customer feedback to inform product decisions, ensuring products meet business requirements.
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Product Strategy: Define and refine product strategies, ensuring they align with customer needs, competitive landscapes, and technological advancements.
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Methodology Establishment: Develop, refine, and maintain an agile delivery methodology tailored to the unique needs of product management within the company.
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Agile Implementation: Guide teams in the implementation of agile principles, facilitating iterative development and continuous improvement processes.
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Reporting: Generate regular reports to communicate project progress, risks, issues key metrics, and insights to stakeholders and AI team.
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AI Delivery Continuous Improvement: volunteer to be the action owner on at least 2 AI Delivery Continuous Improvement efforts and contribute to the successful completion of these efforts.
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AI Governance methodology: actively pursue improvements to current methodology process; influence change and embrace change
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Coaching: Coach/mentor/support less experienced team members
Minimum Requirements
Minimum education required of the position
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a closely related discipline is required. Additionally, candidates should possess a strong academic background with coursework or specialization in strategic planning, project management, and leadership. Equivalent professional experience in the field demonstrating expertise and a proven track record in technical planning and delivery.
Minimum experience required of the position
- Sr Staff Level: 7+ years of leading products, projects, or programs, preferably within the utility industry
- Experience with process improvements and optimizations.
- Experience with strategy and change management for an office function.
- Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall methodology and JIRA tool.
Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position
The ideal candidate will bring a combination of educational achievements, professional certifications, and a substantial track record of hands-on experience in AI planning and delivery, reflecting both technical proficiency and strategic leadership capabilities.
- Comprehensive understanding of project management methodologies, business strategy formulation and implementation, and change management principles and practices.
- Strong skills in overseeing the successful execution of projects, leading organizational change, and establishing and managing key performance indicators (KPIs) for projects, focusing on continuous improvement.
- Capacity to navigate and lead in a rapidly evolving technological landscape, with a mindset that encourages and embraces innovation while demonstrating influencing skills to gain support for AI initiatives from stakeholders at various organizational levels.
Any certificates, licenses, etc . required for the position
Program Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) preferred
Other Attributes
Functional Knowledge
Subject Matter Expert in project management methodology, from initial scoping to final delivery and user adoption.
Business Expertise
Strong knowledge of business requirements for aligned business unit and how business needs are will shift over time.
Leadership
Proven leadership skills in building, leading, and motivating high-performing teams.
Problem Solving
Able to resolve complex problems independently, especially with translating business requirement to functional and operational capability and to keep projects on track.
Impact
Deliver new projects and programs to business units and ensure that the final outcome meets their needs.
Interpersonal Skills
Able to coordinate to multiple stakeholders, cross-functional team members, while building consensus on desired outcomes. Effectively resolves conflicts and disagreements within the team.
Working Conditions/Essential functions/Physical requirements
Office environment with minimal physical requirements. As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Arkansas : Little Rock || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : The Woodlands
Job Function : Corporate
FLSA Status : Professional
Relocation Option:
Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings : 1
Req ID: 124974
PS Job Title : AI Product Manager Sr Staff
Travel Percentage :Up to 25%
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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
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WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.
Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.