Product Manager

Who We Are:

CareBand is an award-winning company that empowers people living with dementia to stay safe and healthy while providing peace of mind to caregivers. The solution includes a wearable device that monitors activity, behavior and location. With the integration of machine learning technology, caregivers can proactively manage common behaviors such as wandering and agitation through non-pharmacological interventions. With CareBand, people living with dementia can stay safe, function at their highest level of independence, and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations while caregivers have peace of mind.

Join the CareBand Team

We are a multi-disciplinary team of experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, design and senior care. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. Are you one of us?

Recent News

CareBand has customers in the US, Canada, Slovokia, and the UK. In the past few months, CareBand has:

• CareBand was award $440k NIH R21 with University of Minnesota: https://med.umn.edu/news-events/memory-keepers-receive-grant-optimize-early-detection-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease-and-related-dementias
• CareBand starts a pilot with Amazon: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/echo-tile-and-level-devices-join-amazon-sidewalk
• Our founder's TEDx on Technology and Dementia: How Innovation is Empowering Beyond Diagnosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkvp3FcxzGE

The Role:

In this rapidly evolving world, CareBand is always looking for new ways to disrupt the status quo, go to market faster, and optimize customer experiences. We are seeking an experienced product owner to lead the charge on this mission. The ideal candidate will have big ideas and strategies that foster an environment of collaboration and creativity. This role is ideal for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and real-world experience distilling business value and goals into roadmaps and refined product backlogs. Most importantly, you will be integral to helping us build better products that people and businesses love to use.

Objectives:

• Talk with customers and stakeholders to craft vision and concept development of a product
• Take lead of scrum teams, defining product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, communicating with stakeholders throughout the project
• Work with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
• Work closely with product management/business teams to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Keep up with agile/scrum best practices and trends

Daily & Month Responsibilities

• Translate complex and ambiguous business problems into crisp product strategies and roadmaps, while managing prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience and time to market
• Write product/marketing documents, requirements, user stories, product specifications, ensuring clear communication and coordination with business, design and development teams
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
• Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
• Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
• Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product
• Become a trusted advisor to customers on the CareBand platform

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Informatics, Business Technology, product management or related discipline
• MBA or Master’s degree (preferred)
• 2-3+ years experience in product development
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
• In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles
• Understanding of business value around feature/functions
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to effectively manage conflicting stakeholder needs

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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