Product Owner

- Mid Level

Alpharetta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Lancope is seeking a product owner to work within our Agile product group delivering security solutions. The product owner collaborates with business and technical teams to analyze market problems, build prioritized backlogs and work with development teams to deliver products. You are responsible for understanding and creating user stories for the functional requirements across our suite of products. You will be responsible for working with our product management team and development team to understand and coordinate product strategy, release timelines, and product quality.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and breakdown market problems into prioritized, deliverable stories
• Assist in the management of our Agile/Lean Processes
• Work with customers to ensure that market problems are solved by planned features
• Facilitate in cases where the requirements gathering becomes complex
• Work closely with developers and architects to build applications in our technologies
• Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment)
• Coach and mentor team members

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a product manager, product owner or business analyst designing or developing software
• Experience in leading process improvement efforts is very valuable
• Experience in working in an Agile/Lean software environment is highly desired
• Understanding of data modeling, object modeling, and OO design principles
• Strong understanding of capabilities and limitations of programming languages, middleware solutions, application servers and presentation layer tools is a plus, but not required
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates initiative and competence; supports and encourages positive working behaviors in others