Product Development Manager (Remote)

Product Development Manager | Verizon Wireless | United States

Product Development–Senior Manager Product Management **Product Development–Senior Manager** * Alpharetta, Georgia **When you join Verizon** **What you’ll be doing…** Our team focuses on the Sales Chat & 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 Sr. 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.

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.

Some of the day-to-day responsibilities you will execute to make a difference and drive growth include:

* Responsible for driving incremental chat sales through utilization of partner platform (live person) Manage the chat and messaging technology stack including chat/messaging platforms, automation layers and agent augmentation solutions.

* Writing all content scripts and intents within the Cresta AI tool and pulling VOC for Operations stakeholders daily.

* Ability to engage in real-time troubleshooting and problem resolutions.

* 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.

* Liaison with sales operations to help with calibrations, daily transcript monitoring, agent feedback hourly defect reporting, training chat reps and supervisors.

* For features with front- end dependencies: working with designers in identifying problem areas related to product experience and conducting research for identifying unmet needs of the customer.

* Capture, document, and communicate business requirements. Translate requirements into features and user stories.

* Develop product, reporting, and solution requirements.

* Collaborating 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.

**What we’re looking for…**

You’ll need to have:

* Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

* Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

* Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development, operations or technology.

* Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.

* Experience working cross functionally (product, operations, design, engineering, and content development).

* Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management.

* Live Person Platform management & Cresta Platform experience.

* Analytical and quantitative skills, including ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases and drive improvements.

* Sales chat & messaging technology experience.

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

* Experience working in and collaborating across a complex omni-channel environment.

* An understanding of segmentation, personalization and multivariate testing with the 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.

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.

**Where you’ll be working**

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.**Scheduled Weekly Hours**

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