Product Manager (contract)

Mindgrub Technologies is an award-winning agency whose mission is to drive efficiency, growth, and ROI through AI and digital innovation. We leverage a deep understanding of technology and growth strategy to deliver multi-channel solutions for enterprise clients, with a strong focus on the energy and utilities sectors.

Position Overview

Mindgrub is seeking a Product Manager to join our Product Strategy team. This highly collaborative role will partner with senior product leaders, designers, engineers, project managers, quality assurance, and client stakeholders to define, build, and deliver custom digital products for enterprise organizations.

This position will initially support multiple strategic client engagements, working alongside a Senior Product Manager to facilitate discovery, manage product backlogs, define requirements, and guide software delivery from concept through launch.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex business problems, thrives in collaborative environments, and is comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous situations. They possess an owner’s mindset, communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and are eager to learn new industries and business domains.

Mindgrub embraces modern AI-assisted ways of working. Candidates should be comfortable incorporating generative AI tools into research, analysis, documentation, backlog management, and day-to-day product delivery while applying sound judgment and maintaining high standards for quality and accuracy.

This position requires strong communication skills, exceptional organization, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for building software that creates meaningful business value. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, collaboration, and execution, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Represent the voice of the customer, advocating for user and business needs throughout product delivery.
• Collaborate with senior product leaders to define product strategy, priorities, and delivery plans.
• Facilitate workshops focused on discovery, requirements gathering, process mapping, ideation, prioritization, and solution definition.
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from client stakeholders.
• Create, refine, and maintain product backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and other product delivery activities.
• Coordinate closely with UX designers, software engineers, QA, project managers, and client stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with clients through thoughtful communication, collaboration, and problem solving.
• Identify risks, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities early, helping teams make informed decisions.
• Contribute to product roadmaps and release planning alongside senior product leadership.
• Partner with Mindgrub Account Managers and Project Managers to ensure successful client engagements and software delivery.
• Leverage generative AI tools to improve research, documentation, backlog refinement, meeting preparation, analysis, and other product management activities while validating outputs for quality and accuracy.
• Continuously improve product management processes, team collaboration, and delivery practices.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Remote; 9:00am - 5:00pm EST; 30 - 40 hrs / wk
• July through February with potential to extend.
• 2 - 6 years of experience managing digital products or custom software delivery in an Agile environment.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional software development teams, inc…