Associate Product Manager (Remote USA - EST)

About the Business

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Government vertical, our solutions assist government agencies and law enforcement to drive insights from complex data sets, improving operation efficiency, increasing program integrity, discovering, and recovering revenue, and making timely and informed decisions to enhance investigations. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government 

About the Role

The Associate Product Manager will work closely with various groups to translate public safety customer needs into product requirements. They will also help with implementation via collaboration with the development teams. Individuals in this role will become a part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative team environment that supports innovations and creativity.

This position can be home based but must be able to work East coast hours.  ​​​​​​​

Responsibilities
Customer Focus
• Develops and builds awareness of key customer needs, as relayed by others.
• Participates in customer discovery activities with the product team and gives input for solutions.
• Helps others to deliver on existing customer commitments.
• Regularly reads competitive announcements and events.

Data-Driven Decision-Making & Analysis
• Seeks out data in partnership with others to support decisions.
• Demonstrates ability to review data from predefined dashboards and shares with team members for decision making.
• Understands key metrics for their feature area and major influencers of these metrics.

Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle
• With clear direction participates in go to market launch plans and activities.
• Develops an understanding of how the product is marketed to customers.
• Participates in select customer events.
• Distributes information to sales and marketing to educate on product issues.

Product Delivery & Development Lifecycle
• Demonstrates an understanding of the customer experience, and the components of a good product.
• Writes clear and concise product requirements that meet guidelines in a timely and effective manner.
• Recommends and plans use of feature functionality.

Strategy & Commercial Acumen
• Develops an understanding of, and executes defined product strategy.
• Proactively asks questions about strategy and goals.

Technical Skills
• Learns the company technology stack at a high level, for his/her feature area.
• Ability to write detailed technical user stories and present to internal stakeholders.
• Learns about technologies to assist day-to-day tasks.


Competencies:
Personal Capability
• Is curious and keen to learn and develop new ideas, skills and knowledge
• Acts on feedback to improve him/herself
• Looks for developmental opportunities in day-to-day work
• Invests time and energy in self-development (professional qualifications , relevant reading, networking meetings, etc.)

• Practices Self-Development

Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues
• Is able to understand, analyze and resolve core issues within own role
• Works with others on solving complex problems and issues

Innovates
• Brainstorms with others to look for different approaches to current process and tasks
• Looks for opportunities to develop new ideas or thinking within own role
• Experiments with new ideas as part of role

Interpersonal Skills
Communicates Powerfully and Prolifically
• Demonstrates effective conversational skills, including active listening and questioning
• Shares information relevant to own role
• Participates in team presentations

Collaboration and Teamwork
• Develops co-operative working relationships within the team
• Considers how own style affects others and tailors interactions accordingly
• Looks for ways to develop mutually beneficial relationships across teams

Builds Relationships
• Is approachable and friendly
• Asks for opinions of others
• Participates in formal and informal gatherings to meet new people and develop new relationships

• Treats all individuals with respect

Inspires and motivates others to high performance
• Brings enthusiasm to the team
• Gets to know others in the team and what is important to them
• Observes behaviors and models self after the others
• Leads by example by performing at high levels

Focus On Results
Drives for Results
• Works hard to achieve objectives
• Stays focused on key commitments
• Looks to overcome obstacles or barriers to performing
• Works with others to achieve joint goals

 

Requirements

• Minimum Years of Product Management Experience: 0-2 years

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks, projects and priorities.

• Demonstrated critical thinking skills.

• Understanding software development methodologies like Agile Scrum, Kanban and writing user stories.

• Experience in Government or Law Enforcement industries and/or public records is a plus.

• Familiarity with our Law Enforcement products (Accurint Virtual Crime Center and Accurint TraX) is a plus.

• Education to Qualify: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical subject (Computer Science or Engineering discipline) is preferred, but not essential.

• US Citizenship is required for this specific role

Physical and/or logical access to criminal justice information is an essential function of this role. The successful candidate will be required to pass an enhanced criminal background check conducted by the Company’s state and local law enforcement partners conducted in compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information System (“CJIS”) security policy. Employees in this role may also be subject to ongoing criminal background checks as required by the Company’s state and local law enforcement partners. Candidates and/or employees who are not certified by state and local law enforcement to access criminal justice information will not be able to perform the essential functions of this role.



U.S. National Base Pay Range: $52,800 - $88,000. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

 


 



This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.



We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer to our US full- and part-time employees working at least 20 hours or more per week:

● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice



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