Software Product Manager

Alliant Group is hiring a Software Product Manager in Houston, Texas (onsite) to lead discovery through delivery, translating customer needs and business goals into product requirements, roadmaps, and release plans. This role partners across engineering, design, client services, and executive stakeholders, including distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Role Overview

In this position, you will conduct market and client analysis, define detailed requirements, and coordinate planning activities from product strategy through release execution. You will maintain shared alignment on what teams are building, track delivery progress against planned commitments, and communicate roadmap priorities, tradeoffs, and outcomes to internal and external audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs, business objectives, user feedback, and technical considerations into clear product requirements, user stories, workflows, business rules, acceptance criteria, and success measures for web and mobile applications.
• Partner with engineering and design to validate feasibility, resolve gaps and dependencies, and maintain shared understanding of product and feature requirements before development begins.
• Maintain accurate product, requirements, and release documentation as products evolve.
• Develop and deliver release communications, presentations, and training for internal and external audiences.
• Apply Agile practices by facilitating sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives while partnering with engineering to translate requirements into actionable work items.
• Track sprint progress, capacity, dependencies, blockers, and delivery trends to support realistic release schedules.
• Create and continuously refine a prioritized product roadmap based on customer impact, business value, strategic objectives, effort, dependencies, risk, and available capacity.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to translate initiatives into achievable releases, milestones, and incremental deliverables, monitoring progress and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Communicate roadmap priorities, rationale, tradeoffs, and deferred work to stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering, UX/UI, QA, customer-facing teams, and business stakeholders to support requirements reviews, prioritization, backlog refinement, and release planning across the product lifecycle.
• Resolve ambiguity, make timely product decisions, and communicate priorities and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Incorporate customer and internal feedback into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Define measurable outcomes for features and releases, evaluate delivered functionality against requirements and user needs, and use product data and feedback to identify improvements.
• Improve product-development processes, requirements quality, and roadmap practices.
• Collaborate effectively with teams across the United States, India, and multiple time zones.
• Use clear documentation and outcome-focused meetings to communicate priorities, decisions, dependencies, blockers, schedule changes, and next steps.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, required; UI/UX education or certification preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in software product management, product ownership, business analysis, or a related role, with experience managing products from requirements through release.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex needs into actionable requirements for engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and Agile practices.
• Experience developing and managing prioritized product roadmaps and release plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using design and AI-enabled tools to develop or communicate UI concepts preferred.
• Familiarity with content management systems (CMS) and content publishing preferred.
• Ability to balance customer needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and delivery capacity when making product decisions.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, UX/UI, and QA teams and understand technical concepts, including APIs, integrations, dependencies, and system behavior.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple products, initiatives, and stakeholders.
• High sense of urgency with the ability to meet deadlines and changing priorities.
• Receptiveness to performance feedback within a team environment is essential.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in the Houston, Texas office five days per week.

Tools and Technologies

• Aha!
• Microsoft Azure DevOps / ADO Projects
• Jira
• Confluence
• Microsoft Suite (including Loop)
• Lucid
• Figma

Benefits

• 100% employer paid medical/dental premiums for single coverage for certain options
• 401(k) matching
• PTO
• Company provided life insurance and disability
• Onsite gym and group exercise classes
• Paid covered parking