Senior Product Operations Manager

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY • Salt Lake City, UT • 5h ago

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 407

Pay Range: $105,600.00 - $158,400.00

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of Product Operations, the Senior Product Operations Manager is responsible for collaborating with leadership to identify, create, and develop processes and best practices for the Product Organization. As a key leader in creating the standard for cross-functional communication and visibility, you will surface the insights required to help our Product Organization define effective product strategies and function optimally.

Your collaboration with leaders and individual contributors from Product and UX creates excellent governance, continuous improvement of processes and communication, and most importantly, transparency throughout and enablement of the Product Organization. You help connect us with our users and business partners by creating and optimizing processes and best practices utilizing excellent communication methods. You empower our Product Organization by helping us find and remove our inefficiencies, and by helping us achieve better business and user outcomes.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Uses qualitative and quantitative insights to dig deep into workflows and product usage to drive both operational playbooks and tooling enhancements

Leads cross-functional working groups to implement and support new system capabilities

Standardizes documentation of Roadmaps, Strategy Reviews, Product Briefs, Vision Statements, Release Plans and Release Notes, Experiment Findings, Internal Product Announcement materials

Creates standard templates and frameworks for communication and supporting product practices

Routinely communicates roadmap progress to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to drive decision making on key trade offs

Assists with consistent OKR monitoring and reporting

Leads the organization of cross-functional teams and their management for product domains and creates supporting resources for the teams

Establishes and implements standards and processes for the management of product backlog health

Optimizes product management onboarding and creates related trainings

Defines and manages intake process

Organizes workshops to upskill employees and improve product practices

Creates and manages product resources index and archive of product... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

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