Staff Product Manager - Mechanical Orchard
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Staff Product Manager
- Job Location
- Remote
- Job Description
- At Mechanical Orchard, we specialize in safely rewriting the most critical and complex business applications—the software that runs the world as we know it today—so they’re ready to adapt quickly and easily to market challenges and opportunities. Our approach emerged from observing the decades-long failure patterns in modernization efforts and is designed to eliminate the risks and disruptions that characterize most projects.Our background in software development and the impact on the industry is well known: we've literally helped write the book on XP and other impactful Agile practices. We’re applying the same thoughtfulness and rigor in applying AI pragmatically where it helps. We believe in the durable principles behind Agile, and embrace the power of cross-functional teams, collective ownership, test driven development, short feedback loops, and continuous improvement.We’re bringing joy to beleaguered IT teams everywhere. Together, we’re seeing how applying craft, expertise, and technologies we’re building can fundamentally transform the way companies operate, innovate, and win. Our values are: Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind.Product Managers at Mechanical Orchard modernize crucial applications that power the world’s largest companies. They balance long term strategy with tactical delivery. They identify and mitigate risk through effective stakeholder communication, cross-discipline collaboration, and providing clarity and focus for teams. They apply a lean and iterative mindset to the complex and highly technical problems of long-term software modernization.Product Managers at Mechanical Orchard are responsible for
- Owning and running the backlog of work for their teams
- Providing clarity and focus on complex technical projects
- Driving incremental progress in terms of learning, mitigated risk, and delivery of modernized applications to production
- Creatively unblocking the project team from technical and organizational impediments
- Understanding and balancing tradeoffs between customer needs, user needs, technical limitations, and security constraints while maintaining sustainable pace
- Using lean principles to de-risk work
- Driving decision making within the team and with internal and external stakeholders
- Proactively communicating, internally and externally, with leadership and client stakeholders to ensure transparency and clarity in project progress, risk, and milestones
- Maintaining tight feedback loops within the project team, with internal stakeholders, and with customer stakeholders
- Maintaining focus and forward momentum for the project team
- Establishing and maintaining excellent customer relationships, with alignment on priorities and progress
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of our software delivery practice across the entire product lifecycle by applying and advocating for modern agile and product management practices
Typical activities include- Creating and maintaining a vision, strategy, and roadmap for legacy software modernization projects
- Facilitating decision-making meetings with cross-discipline teams and leaders at all organizational levels
- Communicating with internal and external stakeholders about project progress, risk, and milestones
- Maintaining a backlog of highly technical modernization work, including acceptance testing
- Developing novel processes and tools for testing that modernized software is equivalent to its legacy counterpart and meets all performance requirements
- Developing novel processes and tools for visualizing and communicating progress of legacy software modernization
- Attending and facilitating agile team ceremonies such as daily standup, weekly planning, and weekly retrospectives
- You may be asked to participate in your team’s 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response and management needs
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Mechanical Orchard Company Size
Between 50 - 100 employees
Mechanical Orchard Founded Year
2022
Mechanical Orchard Total Amount Raised
$81,000,000
Mechanical Orchard Funding Rounds
View funding detailsSeries B
$50,000,000 USD
Series A
$24,000,000 USD
Seed
$7,000,000 USD