Freelance Product Delivery Lead, ustwo

• Navigate competing external and internal cross-functional demands with finesse, fostering open discussions and informed decisions that align with project and stakeholder needs
• Maintain a holistic understanding of project status and priorities while attending to necessary details to keep daily operations moving forward in alignment with the project’s roadmap
• Communicate with clarity and precision, effortlessly articulating updates that balance action-oriented directives with necessary details for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Leverage data to guide decision-making, and when there’s no data, find alternative sources to gain insights
• Exhibit a deep affinity for digital technologies and a knowledge of best practices within the space, with a flair for pushing boundaries and creating innovative solutions
• Experience using collaboration, design, and project management tools such as Asana, Miro, Figma, and Google Suite
• Accumulated a minimum of 8 years of experience delivering impactful work in agencies, studios, or comparable settings, with a strong focus on digital experiences that captivate clients and interdisciplinary teams
• Successfully led and shipped at least one significant consumer-facing project that stands as a testament to your professional development, complemented by a portfolio of smaller projects that showcase your evolving strategies for client collaboration
• Proficient in championing and practicing agile methodologies, harnessing their power to drive collaboration, client engagement, and project completion

Desirable

• Ustwo is seeking an experienced Lead Product Manager to join our New York team
• Ustwo is known for delivering exceptional digital products and collaborating closely with clients to conceptualize, prototype, and bring to life complex digital solutions
• This cross-functional role oversees client program requirements and overall project health, while collaborating across a range of product disciplines globally, including Strategy, Design, Technical & Engineering teams, Operations, and Business Development
• In this role, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to define product requirements, prioritize specifications, and create a roadmap to execution and delivery, while demonstrating the value of our final deliverables
• As a Product Manager, you’ll have a proven track record of successfully delivering a diverse range of projects
• This particular role represents a blend between product management and project management skill sets, allowing you to leverage your expertise in both areas
• We are seeking a candidate who promotes a self-organized team and leads continuous improvement to our processes informed by Agile best practices, while also playing a pivotal role in guiding your team's decision-making and offering support in the face of challenges, risks, and client interactions
• Serve as a liaison between client stakeholders and cross functional leads to gather product and project requirements, prioritize tasks and features, and identify dependencies and risks
• Work with our internal teams to define, evaluate, and prioritize project dependencies, assumptions, and the overall roadmap, while also formulating detailed implementation strategies
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a range of technical, design-led, and strategic vision-type projects, overseeing the execution of sprints, maintaining team members’ accountability and velocity, and exceeding clients' expectations for quality and value
• Manage complete product life cycles and experimental pilots, tailoring agile methodologies to best suit each project's unique needs
• Act as a practitioner of agile best practices, crafting and leading workshops or project ceremonies for both internal teams and clients, promoting collaboration and resulting in tangible outputs
• Assume a prominent client-facing role, steering project direction and maintaining overall account health through effective prioritization of stakeholders, including clients, partners, and relevant third parties
• Be adept at translating complex product offerings and technical recommendations into terms that are meaningful, simple to understand, and executable
• Support the existing cross-disciplinary teams with pitching and proposal efforts in their tasks to unpack new briefs, craft project approaches, and create proposal decks
• This role is expected to potentially start in mid July for 8 weeks minimum. There is opportunity for this role to continue depending on project outcomes and bandwidth
• This is a full-time/40-hour a week contract position