Location: Hybrid Dearborn, MI – 4 days onsite
Looking for a highly organized, proactive Jira power user who can bring structure to a fast-moving product organization. The ideal candidate combines backlog management, roadmap planning, release tracking, dashboard/reporting expertise, process improvement, and stakeholder communication skills. This person should be able to recommend better ways of working, implement them, and help drive delivery across multiple concurrent products
- Supports 5 different products, including a mix of:
- Full-stack product applications
- Dashboard/reporting projects
- Lean team environment with a lot of competing priorities and customer requests.
- Looking for someone who can help manage the chaos, create structure, and keep multiple initiatives moving forward.
- Significant volume of customer feedback and requests that need to be evaluated, prioritized, and incorporated into the backlog.
What Success Looks Like
This person will be much more than a Project Coordinator and not a traditional Project Manager.
They will:
- Own and maintain backlog health across multiple products.
- Bring organization and discipline to work management.
- Help prioritize incoming requests and customer feedback.
- Keep teams aligned, projects on track, and dependencies visible.
- Recommend and implement better ways of managing work.
- Drive efficiency through process improvements and automation.
- Help leadership make informed decisions using actionable metrics and reporting.
- Be proactive and strategic rather than simply providing status updates.
Jira Expertise is Critical
Jason is looking for someone with advanced Jira skills, not just basic user experience.
Key areas include:
- Backlog management and prioritization
- Jira Timeline / Advanced Roadmaps
- Release tracking and release management
- Dashboard creation and reporting
- Jira automation
- Creating actionable metrics and compliance reporting
- Improving overall Jira adoption and efficiency
- Using Jira strategically to manage delivery and planning, not simply updating tickets
Key Responsibilities Beyond Jira
- Hybrid role combining aspects of:
- Technical Product Coordinator
- Project/Program Management
- Operations & Process Improvement
- Organize and streamline team workflows.
- Help identify better approaches for managing projects and initiatives.
- Ingest and utilize data more effectively.
- Recommend improvements and drive implementation.
- May participate in customer-facing meetings and discussions.
- Translate customer feedback into actionable work items.
Personality & Soft Skills
Jason is highly technical by nature and enjoys creating technical solutions to business problems.
Ideal candidate should be:
- Organized and proactive
- Comfortable working in ambiguity
- Process-oriented
- Strategic thinker
- Strong communicator
- Comfortable challenging current processes and proposing improvements
- Able to work with both technical teams and business stakeholders
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