Product Manager I (Architecture)

Company Summary: 

Crown Castle works around the country to build and maintain the infrastructure behind the world's most revolutionary technologies. As the largest shared infrastructure provider in the United States, Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers, 80,000 small cells and over 80,000 route miles of fiber across every major US market. This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology, and wireless service – bringing information, ideas and innovations to the people and businesses that need them. Crown Castle is a NYSE S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States with an enterprise value of approximately $110 billion.

 

 

 

Position Title:  Product Manager I

 

 

 

Role:

 

 

 

As an industry-leading communication infrastructure provider across the U.S., Crown Castle is at the center of bringing information to and enabling innovation for the people and businesses that need them. The Data and Digital team provides innovative microservice and event-based solutions, utilizing open-source technologies in the cloud, to deliver critical data, geo-spatial, and logistic capabilities to our customers.

 

 

As a Product Manager (I) you will serve as the product owner to support critical business processes and drive tangible value to the organization. The Product Manager (I) will be a member of the Digital Products transformation office and possess experience in product centric large-scale business transformation programs that will change the way our employees think about organizing and executing work.

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities

 

 

• Engage with cross-functional teams, leveraging your business and technical knowledge, to collaborate with business and engineering teams to groom the product backlog and manage and maintain epics, features, and stories
• Work closely with business partners to define and measure product metrics and provide customer-friendly product experiences
• Engage with stakeholders to understand our most pressing business objectives, and prioritize epics, features and stories.
• Develop Epics, Features, and User Stories, and effectively work with the engineering teams to prioritize and manage the backlog
• Develop and implement product plans and manage communication and engagement with key stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle
• Effectively engage with technical teams to deliver features with minimal ambiguity and clear use cases/acceptance criteria; include/exclude the right set of user stories to deliver the most impact 

 

 

Expectations 

 

 

• Relies on experience and judgment to structure / organize work and accomplish goals
• May provide guidance or direction on project work to teammates
• Possesses and applies a broad knowledge of principles, best practices, and procedures of field of specialization to the completion of complex assignments 

 

 

Education/Certifications  

 

 

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent work experience required.
• Agile certifications preferred

 

 

 

Experience/Minimum Requirements  

 

 

• 5+ years experience working in Information Technology or Digital Technology roles
• 2+ years' product management and/or product owner experience 
• 2+ years' experience in product management/development delivering software by identifying business opportunities, building, and grooming epics and stories, and collaborating with engineers on executing a product roadmap
• Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), preferably in an Agile environment
• Excellent teamwork skills. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Crown Castle is a federal contractor and the COVID-19 vaccination is a requirement of employment by your start date to comply with Executive Order 14042.

 

Working Conditions: This is a remote role with the expectation of on-site/in-person collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter and may require up to X% travel.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Digital Transformation