Product Owner – DevOps
Velera
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,800 - $124,500 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Define a clear product vision for the Agile team, refine well-defined epics and features with stakeholders.
- Understand MVP needs by assigning business value at the epic and feature level.
- Translate the “What” of the epics and features into stories defining the “How” for successful completion.
- Work with other Product Owners to align and prioritize backlogs to align with project delivery goals.
- Define product and business requirements and, in collaboration with the Analyst, document user stories and acceptance criteria for the Agile Team; continuously refine, prioritize, and validate requirements to drive high-quality product delivery.
- Lead discussions and decisions with the Agile team to assess how products and their features impact revenue, expenses, profit, cash flow, valuation, and ROI.
- Independently, develop a Delivery Plan that identifies work by technical domain, work dependencies, and schedule, ensuring stakeholders are aligned with the overall plan.
- Partner with Technical Leads and Architecture to confirm that technical aspects of epics and features—along with the roadmap—are prioritized to optimize the team’s value and efficiency.
- Independently facilitate and showcase the product vision and capabilities to external clients or vendor partners.
- Presentation of status updates, financial insights, and long-term product plans that are closely aligned with the organization’s objectives and strategic roadmap.
- Effectively communicates complex concepts in a clear and succinct way, using process flow diagrams and data-driven information to ensure understanding across both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Assist, as needed, in other team roles such as Scrum Master, Business Systems Analyst, or QA Analyst.
- Proactive action to resolve impediments, anticipate and manage risk, and identify the right business partners to inform product direction decisions, ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
- Champion change and help the team pivot in response to evolving organizational priorities.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related technology field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of professional work experience in a combination of technical roles and product owner required or combination of equivalent educational experience.
- Embrace and demonstrate our company core values.
- Expert familiarity and desired to learn more on architecture concepts, quality assurance, API’s, databases, development technologies, and/or Customer / User Experience.
- Prior experience working in DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Mentor and grow junior level Product Owners on Agile, technology, and communication best practices.
- Advanced knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools (Scrum/Kanban, ADO/JIRA).
- Expert familiarity with the Product Development Lifecycle and Software Development Lifecycle.
- Proven experience working in Azure DevOps (ADO) required
- Experience writing ADO queries and creating ADO dashboards
- Ability to maintain an effective Agile backlog.
- Expert financial technology industry knowledge is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Medical with telemedicine
- Dental and Vision
- Basic and Optional Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Maternity, Parental, Family Care
- Community Volunteer Time Off
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Company Paid Disability Insurance
- 401k (with employer match)
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Supplemental Insurance
- Mental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Wellness program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Agile methodologiesScrumKanbanAPIdatabasesDevOpsCI/CD pipelinesProduct Development LifecycleSoftware Development LifecycleADO queries
Soft skills
communicationleadershipmentoringproblem-solvingrisk managementstakeholder alignmentpresentation skillscollaborationchange managementstrategic thinking