Salary
💰 $107,000 - $140,000 per year
About the role
- Lead assessment of product opportunities and risks, including providing cost estimates
- Lead Agile process implementation and improvement in a hybrid planning environment
- Manage a complex backlog in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders, including building a standardized process for managing backlog and future work requests
- Lead product design: prepare well-documented functional specifications and workflows, guide product prototyping and proof of concepts
- Translate customer needs into actionable plans for engineering and design teams, owning features end-to-end and prioritizing the product backlog to deliver maximum value
- Establish and maintain product roadmaps including platform health and customer initiatives
- Meet with business stakeholders to discuss application functionality related to enterprise-wide or specific program initiative due to contractual agreements
- Conduct or participate in meetings to identify requirements in how an application looks and feels to the end-user and provide feedback to clients to ensure technology application supports the internal/external customer needs
- Own and refine user stories and epics in Jira – translate product requirements into work that is actionable by the development team
- Monitor progress of software development efforts to ensure business expectations for the product are being met and software engineering barriers are minimized
- Communicate status and results of product development efforts across the organization
- Lead efforts to define product metrics to optimize product effectiveness
- Coach other product owners and business systems analysts
- Develop a team of product owners and business system analysts, implement and improve processes for software development, define standards for artifacts, develop metrics for planning and monitoring execution, and assist in resource forecasting
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or other engineering degree
- 10+ years as a product owner – successfully delivering multiple products through a complete PDLC lifecycle
- 10+ years working with software developers – understanding the process of effective delivery and release of software
- Leadership experience managing small teams of 3 – 5 junior product owners and BSAs
- Good technical analyst skills translating business needs into technical specifications
- Proven experience in working on data focused product development – good understanding of defining KPIs for product development
- Strong communication skills – especially adept at communicating effectively between non-technical users and software developers
- Experience implementing Agile principles in a hybrid planning environment
- Team-oriented approach and strong technical acumen
- Authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely (precondition of employment)
- Background check and drug screen required (preconditions of employment)
- Public facing software delivery experience is a plus