Product Owner

About the position

At Flatirons Solutions, we are looking to fill a Product Owner role for our global Engineering Operations Organization. The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features for the team. The PO has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring Stories meet the users needs and comply with the Definition of Done. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Solution Management, Customers, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Works with customers to understand their business needs, current workflows and processes and translate those to software requirements.
• Accepts features from Solution Management ensuring the requirements are clear and ready to be broken down into user stories.
• Approves feature and user story designs to ensure they meet the needs of all impacted customers.
• Manage the product business initiatives estimation process.
• Builds and grooms the team backlog into sprint-sized or smaller work items (i.e., User Stories, Defects and Activities). Backlog items are prioritized based on business initiatives, customer support activities, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning event and refined during the PI/ART.
• Provides go/no-go on acceptance of implemented user stories. This includes validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, has appropriate acceptance tests, and complies with its Definition of Done.
• Reviews and re-prioritize the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs. During the iteration planning event, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.
• Coordinates with other product owners to ensure cross-product dependencies are resolved with minimal impact to the release.
• Provides feature status to business owners (Product Managers, TAMs, etc.) and project managers.
• Provides feature demos to Solution Management, Customers, Technical Account Managers and other stakeholders.
• Reviews and accepts product documentation for quality and accuracy.
• Maintains the product feature list.
• Maintains the product release calendar.
• Understand and adhere to all requirements of the Quality Management System and the Information Security Management System.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent years' experience in software development.
• Must have a minimum of 3 years experience participating in business process change, and operations implementation projects.
• Must have a minimum of 3 years experience in a technical lead/team lead/lead designer role - this role requires a good understanding of technology.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Works efficiently with minimum supervision, operates independently on assignments.
• Recommends processing improvements and opportunities for operational enhancement.
• Very resourceful and driven towards excellence.
• Solid analytical and logical cognitive skills.
• Creative thinker with a vision.
• Attention to details.

Benefits

• Salary: $100,000 to $130,000