Senior Product Coordinator, Degree Planner

Job Profile: IT Project Specialist 2 Job Family: IT Project Management Time Type: Full time Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved. Job profile Summary: Works closely and collaboratively with project managers and product managers to assist with routine tactical tasks for project/product execution; develops and maintains relationships with the project/product team members; is committed to project/product success. Job Description: Enterprise Technology is seeking a Senior Product Coordinator, Degree Planner to provide dedicated coordination support to a Product Manager within the Product & UX portfolio, reporting to the Director of Product, Enterprise Technology. This position provides continuity across requirements documentation, release tracking, and quality assurance as the assigned product moves from initial rollout toward broad institutional adoption. The Senior Product Coordinator acts as the connective tissue between product strategy and day-to-day execution. This is a highly cross-functional role. The Senior Product Coordinator will regularly engage stakeholders across academic units, advising, technical teams, and other institutional partners to gather input, validate requirements, and communicate status — requiring strong judgment about when to escalate, when to document, and when to drive a decision to closure. As with all members of the Enterprise Technology team, this role carries core responsibilities, including fostering a sense of belonging and cultivating a culture that is relational, visionary, and empowering. With a strong emphasis on authenticity and compassion, this position is dedicated to embodying and advancing our culture. Position Salary Range: $71,500 - $90,000 per year; DOE Essential Duties: ​ Requirements & analysis Elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements from stakeholders across departments Translate business needs into user stories, use cases, or functional specifications for development teams Analyze current-state business processes and recommend improvements or system enhancements Maintain requirements traceability from intake through delivery Data & reporting Analyze data to identify trends, gaps, or opportunities that inform business decisions Build and maintain reports, dashboards, or metrics to track process or system performance Perform gap analysis between current and desired system/process states Process & documentation Document current and future-state workflows, process maps, and business rules Maintain a repository of requirements, decisions, and process documentation for audits and onboarding Support change management by documenting impacts of proposed changes on existing processes Stakeholder & project support Serve as liaison between business stakeholders and technical/development teams Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews Support UAT (user acceptance testing) planning and execution, including test case development Assist with project planning, scope definition, and prioritization of enhancement requests ​ Quality & governance Ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives and compliance/regulatory requirements Identify risks or dependencies early in the requirements or design phase Support post-implementation review to confirm delivered solutions meet the original business need In addition: Leverage AI in routine tasks and contribute ideas for using AI to improve the unit’s efficiency and overall performance. Take responsibility for fostering a positive culture, upholding organizational values, and championing engagement in all its forms. Collaborate across teams and actively participate in ET/ASU events and programs. ​ Desired Qualifications: Experience eliciting, documenting, and validating business or functional requirements from multiple stakeholder groups. Experience translating requirements into user stories, use cases, or functional specifications for a development team. Experience tracking project or release milestones and managing cross-team dependencies. Experience supporting testing/QA cycles, including test case development and UAT. Demonstrated analytical skills, including the ability to interpret data or usage trends to inform decisions. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work directly with both business stakeholders and technical teams. Experience writing and maintaining product requirements documentation in a software or SaaS environment. Experience with roadmap and milestone tracking tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet) and managing cross-team dependencies. Experience coordinating QA or user acceptance testing cycles ahead of production releases. Experience supporting products in higher education, student information systems, or other enterprise/institutional software. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple release cycles or workstreams concurrently with attention to detail. Demonstrated ability to model empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. Experience in a values-driven organization with a strong commitment to inclusion and belonging. Ability to cultivate a psychologically safe environment where all team members can thrive. Capacity to inspire and drive meaningful change in individual, institutional, and corporate behaviors to support a more sustainable environment. Commitment to leading by example through effective communication, active participation, and advocacy for the institution’s sustainability programs. Working Environment: Activities primarily take place in a standard, climate-controlled office environment and may involve extended periods of sitting, standing, or moving between office spaces. This role involves regular use of a computer (desktop and/or laptop), including a keyboard and mouse. Effective communication and proficiency with a variety of technologies are essential for collaboration with the broader team. Required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work. Regular responsibilities may require the ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts. Application instructions: In your cover letter, please p rovide one example where you gathered requirements on a complicated feature and how you were able to gather consensus from stakeholders. In addition, please disclose the use of AI. Department Statement: Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University. We are a values-driven organization. Our commitments are reflected in all of the work we do in pursuit of operational excellence, the experience and delight of our community, and our strategic and innovation initiatives. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. Join the team that sparks human-centered innovation ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers and staff. Our work emphasizes autonomy, flexibility and distributed decision-making to leverage the strengths of individuals. Together, we embrace a culture that nurtures, engages and embraces many voices with a shared lens of positive community impact and expanded opportunities for collaboration. Why join us? Mission oriented. Everything we do is to advance ASU’s charter -- measuring who we include and how they succeed. We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first. Flexibility. Our flexible work environment allows employees to explore opportunities with their supervisor beyond the traditional work schedule. Opportunities include hybrid work where staff are in person three days per week. Culture forward. We embrace a Positive Core culture: Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered. Scale of impact. Our work changes the world. With 200k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities. World-class, low cost education. Our professional development is built in! ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU’s top ranked programs with major tuition breaks. Exposure to industry giants. ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Arista, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact. Driving Requirement: Driving is not required for this position. Location: Campus: Tempe Funding: No Federal Funding Instructions to Apply: Current employees, student workers seeking staff opportunities, and students applying for student worker positions must apply directly through the Workday Jobs Hub. Please use the link below to log in using single sign-on. To be considered, your application must include all of the following attachments: Cover letter Resume or CV Multiple documents may be uploaded in the attachments section. Alternatively, applicants may combine all required materials into a single PDF for submission. 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