People Product Manager - Workday Recruiting

Southwest firmly believes that our People are our greatest asset, and Leaders within the Company support our People by ensuring all have equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. The People Product Manager facilitates the collaboration between Talent Acquisition and Technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into epics, features, and user stories for delivery within the Agile Release Train framework.

• Responsible for identifying customer needs and continuously refining Epics into Features, prioritizing and sequencing them on the PI Roadmap, and working with Product Owners within the ART to translate Features into Stories that will satisfy the Product Vision
• Collaborates with Architects and other technical People to ensure the solution effectively addresses the functional and non-functional requirements while maintaining technical excellence by understanding and sequencing Enabler work in the Program Backlog and Program Kanban
• Collaborates with Change Management to prepare for product release (education, documentation, training, etc.)
• Participates in PI planning by defining and presenting the business intent, planned Features, and highlighting any known dependencies and milestones throughout each Program Increment, and providing fast Program-level decisions within the event
• Actively participates in Inspect and Adapt (I&A) events
• Leads Feature definition and refinement including establishing feature acceptance criteria
• Leads the System Demo to evaluate working software and help to assess business value delivered against the business intent
• Provides input and feedback to Epic Owners on new and existing Epics, with customer needs in mind
• Participates in the economic prioritization of Features and Enablers using techniques such as Weighted Shortest Job First
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

• Knowledge of industry competition, trends, and changing customer needs
• Skilled in leading activities to support the delivery work including product launch communications, training materials, user acceptance testing, business validation, success criteria measurement and analysis, and post-deployment analysis to identify improvements
• Skilled in developing and communicating the Product Vision and Roadmap
• Ability to communicate clearly complex business needs to leaders, managers, architects, and other technical stakeholders
• Ability to understand and support prioritized Portfolio work by collaborating with Lean Portfolio Management, Architects, and Epic Owners to breakdown Epics into Features
• Ability to build relationships and influence Leadership, Customers, Architects, and other Stakeholders to convert solutions into realizable business value
• Ability to influence and provide recommendations for releasing product(s) to Customers or the market
• Ability to manage legal, compliance, and security aspects of the product by collaborating across the enterprise

• Competitive market salary from $138,800 - $154,200 per year
• 401(k) with Company contributions up to 9.3%
• ProfitSharing contribution
• Competitive health insurance
• Fly for free on any open seat on all Southwest flights
• Southwest will help fund your 401(k) retirement savings with Company contributions up to 9.3%

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.