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
- Own and refine user stories and epics in Jira – translating product requirements into work actionable by development teams
- Monitor progress of software development efforts to ensure business expectations 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
- Help develop a team of product owners and business system analysts, implement and improve processes, define standards for artifacts, develop metrics, develop roadmaps 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
- Public facing software delivery experience is a plus
- Authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely (authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment)
- Background check and drug screen are preconditions of employment
- At this time, not accepting applications from candidates residing in Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming