Manager, Product & Delivery

## Overview We are seeking a Manager, Product Operations & Delivery to drive the execution of our product roadmap across ViaPath’s enterprise Offender Management System (OMS) platform. This role serves as the operational backbone of the product organization—ensuring that strategy is translated into clear, actionable, and high-quality delivery work. You will lead the Product Analyst function and oversee the systems, processes, and standards that enable effective backlog management, requirements quality, and cross-functional alignment. This is a highly collaborative role that partners closely with Product, UX, Engineering, QA, Implementation, and Support teams to ensure product initiatives are well-defined, development-ready, and successfully delivered. This position is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product operations, delivery execution, and team leadership, and who enjoys bringing structure and clarity to complex software environments. This is a remote based position based anywhere in the contiguous United States. # ## Responsibilities **Product Delivery & Backlog Management** - Translate approved product roadmap initiatives into structured, trackable delivery work (epics, features, user stories) within Jira - Maintain a well-organized, transparent backlog aligned to roadmap themes and priorities - Ensure end-to-end traceability between roadmap initiatives and delivery artifacts in Jira and Confluence **Requirements Quality & Readiness** - Establish and enforce standards for high-quality requirements, including clarity, completeness, testability, and dependency management - Lead backlog refinement sessions to ensure all work meets “ready for development” criteria - Partner with UX, Engineering, and QA to clarify functional intent and resolve gaps early in the delivery lifecycle **Team Leadership & Enablement** - Manage and mentor a team of Product Analysts responsible for functional design, user stories, and documentation - Provide coaching, workload planning, and performance management to ensure high-quality output and team growth - Foster consistency in documentation practices, tooling usage, and delivery standards - Feedback Synthesis & Continuous Improvement - Aggregate and analyze feedback from Support, Implementation, and other customer-facing teams - Identify trends, root causes, and opportunities, translating insights into actionable backlog items - Recommend priorities, scope tradeoffs, and improvements to product leadership based on operational data **Release Coordination & Communication** - Coordinate release readiness activities, ensuring scope completion and stakeholder alignment - Support release validation and ensure delivered functionality meets defined acceptance criteria - Draft and publish clear, accurate release notes and supporting product communications - Develop internal enablement materials such as feature summaries and user guidance **Operational Excellence** - Maintain organized, accessible documentation in Confluence, including requirements, workflows, and decision logs - Track and escalate risks, gaps, and cross-team dependencies to maintain delivery momentum - Continuously improve processes related to backlog management, documentation, feedback intake, and release communication ## Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent related experience in Business Analysis, Product Operations, Software Delivery, Information Systems, or related fields will be considered in lieu of a degree. - 8+ years of experience in product analysis, functional analysis, business analysis, or software delivery support within enterprise software environments with a minimum of 2 years of experience directly managing analysts or leading a requirements-focused function, including coaching, performance management, and workload planning. - Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into structured user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional documentation suitable for softwa…