Product Manager, Selection Navigator Functional Lead
Description
What you will do
Selection Navigator Functional Lead (Product Manager)/ defines delivery objectives, prioritizes features, and ensures the design solution that meets customer and business needs. This role partners with global cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to maximize value and drive continuous improvement.
How you will do it
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Act as the business liaison between domain business owners, sellers and the IT delivery team — capture what the business wants to enable on Selection Navigator and make sure delivery meets that intent.
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Engage directly with sellers, inside/post-sales teams, branches and product business owners to gather requirements for new products and capabilities being onboarded to the platform.
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Translate business initiatives into well-defined features with clear requirements, outcomes, acceptance expectations, and benefits.
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Document business processes, validate requirements and support team alignment across product, engineering and business stakeholders.
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Define delivery objectives and prioritize the feature backlog to maximize business value.
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Coordinate work across multiple teams and manage cross-team and cross-system dependencies.
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Communicate progress, status and risks to business stakeholders and IT leadership.
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Review UX designs for alignment with requirements and user experience standards.
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Support Product Owners and developers through refinement, sprint execution, demos and release readiness.
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Participate in SAFe ceremonies — PI planning, backlog refinement, system demos and portfolio syncs.
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Operate effectively across time zones within a global team (the product management in the U.S., product owners and engineering in India) serving global customer
Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
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8+ years of experience, with strong working knowledge of Agile and SAFe principles.
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Proven ability to translate business and seller needs into actionable requirements and features.
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Working understanding of a JCI product domain — fire detection, controls, HVAC equipment or aftermarket parts.
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Excellent communication and coordination across business and technical teams.
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Ability to manage complex, globally distributed initiatives and dependencies.
Preferred Skills and Experience
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Experience with product configuration, selection, estimating or CPQ platforms.
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Familiarity with HVAC, Fire Detection, Building Automation/Controls, or related industries.
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Prior experience in sales, inside sales, post-sales, or a GCOE/engineering support function where JCI products were configured or quoted.
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Experience applying AI to selection, estimating or sales-productivity workflows.
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Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
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Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
Hands-on experience with
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Salesforce,
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DevOps / Jira
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BI Reporting tools
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Tealium / Google Analytics
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Snowflake
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Mulesoft
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ERPs (Oracle, SAP, Lawson, MAPICS, etc