
Connected Product Owner
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Milwaukee • Illinois, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureCloudIoTSQLTableau
About the role
- Lead product planning, pricing, channel strategies, and go-to-market activities for connected products and services.
- Maintain centralized repositories for product information, ensuring materials are current and easily accessible.
- Define and own the vision and roadmap for Connected Solutions across B2B omni-channels, ensuring alignment with business unit strategies.
- Analyze product performance, competitiveness, and market trends; develop strategies based on research and analysis.
- Conduct market and user research, leveraging VOC and usability testing to identify needs and communicate impactful value propositions.
- Work with engineering, hardware, marketing, sales, commercial, and IT teams to align priorities and deliver integrated release plans.
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring well-defined user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria aligned with the roadmap and stage-gate milestones.
- Gather and analyze user feedback and product data to guide enhancements, prioritize features, and measure adoption and engagement via KPIs.
- Use structured stage-gate principles for product lifecycle management, ensuring clear deliverables and data-driven decisions.
- Collaborate with marketing to launch and optimize digital campaigns, landing pages, and lead generation funnels, ensuring robust tracking and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related field; MBA highly preferred.
- 5+ years’ experience in product management/ownership, preferably with connected products or IoT.
- Experience in the plumbing market or related segment preferred.
- Experience with data visualization tools (Excel Charts, PowerBI, Tableau) preferred.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent highly desired.
- Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and software development processes.
- Experience with project management tools (Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps) preferred.
- Technical acumen in cloud platforms, APIs, or query languages (T-SQL, oData) preferred.
- Proficiency in VOC, customer journey mapping, and agile delivery practices.
- Strong communication and decision-making skills.
- Willingness to travel 15–25% of the time.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, AD&D, and Life Insurance
- Matching 401(k) Contribution
- Health Savings Account
- Up to 3 weeks starting Vacation (may increase with tenure)
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Annual Bonus Eligibility
- Educational Reimbursement
- Matching Gift Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan – purchase company stock at a discount!
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Hard skills
product managementdata visualizationAgileScrumKanbancloud platformsAPIsT-SQLoDatacustomer journey mapping
Soft skills
communicationdecision-makingcollaborationanalysisleadershipstrategic thinkinguser feedback analysisprioritizationproblem-solvingadaptability
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)MBA