Product Owner (Full Stack)

About the position

Leads the planning and rollout of assigned products through ownership of product concepts, roadmaps, and prioritization with delivery teams. Navigates a dynamic and distributed stakeholder and development environment to build and maintain a prioritized roadmap. Owns product backlog and release plan. Creates supporting artifacts encompassing resource needs, stakeholder solution requirements, dependencies, timelines, milestones, and success criteria as necessary to deliver on the promised business value. Champions and supports the product development team by reducing churn and waste, removing blockers, escalating issues and offering ideas, solutions, and technical product guidance. Drives product design and direction through empowered decision making.

Responsibilities

• Owns and influences the vision and definition of the product.
• Serves as the voice of the Customer.
• Responsible for ensuring the product development effort is concentrated on the right priorities based on business value.
• Partner with designers, analysts, and technical teams to translate customer needs into workable technology solutions.
• Defines and conveys the vision to the team(s) in order to address client requirements to ensure a successful product based on business value.
• Drives the creation of and the integrity of the product backlog.
• Leads grooming of the product backlog and ensures the backlog is correctly prioritized based on business value.
• Influences plans and strategies to achieve the product objectives as related to the product area.
• Responsible for ensuring the development teams are focused on the right priorities during the development process.
• Primary point of contact for questions from the teams and is empowered to make decisions.
• Accepts delivery of working product from the development teams.
• Socializes the delivery of business value and outcomes of the iteration to the stakeholders and clients.
• Researches, learns and implements technologies to develop a background for successful product definition.
• Works with Product Managers, UX designers, engineers, and customer counterparts to design and deliver new products or capabilities in an iterative, continuous fashion.
• Develops detailed business requirements, user stories, screen mock-ups, flow diagrams, etc.
• Works closely with all stakeholders to communicate customer needs, adjust requirements based on technical feedback, prioritize requirements, and manage to change priorities.
• Performs an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of sprint / release goals.
• Participates in project retrospectives and provide feedback to improve products and development execution.
• Performs other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
• Occasional travel required.

Requirements

• 5+ years of total professional work experience preferably in IT and Business.
• Professional experience developing requirements to meet business needs.
• Well-rounded business design and technical acumen which will enable productive discussions with sales, designers and engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in Software engineering, business management or related disciplines.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum SDLC and lean software development practices.
• Knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle, with an emphasis on requirements elicitation, requirements and design modeling, user story elaboration, documentation and communication.

Nice-to-haves

• Training and certification as a professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or as a certified scrum product owner (CSPO) a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision care.
• EAP programs.
• Paid time off.
• Recognition programs.
• Retirement and investment options.
• Charitable gift matching programs.
• Worldwide days of service.