Product Owner

About BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, empowering organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and secure a work-from-anywhere world. Our integrated products and platform offer the industry's most advanced privileged access management (PAM) solution, enabling organizations to quickly shrink their attack surface across traditional, cloud and hybrid environments. 
Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. 

Job Summary
Serve an agile engineering team, BeyondTrust, our customers, and their users by:

• Maximizing the value delivered by the teams
• Understanding your product and its users, market, competition, and future trends
• Work with stakeholders to form and articulate the vision and value of what should be built
• Own ideas from inception, through design, and into adding actual measurable value

Serve the development team by

• Providing vision for changes to your product - for sprints and longer term
• Working with multiple scrum teams to deliver on privileged access and session management functionality, which is core to the business.
• Defining opportunities which provide the right product market fit
• Leading workshops with development teams to define a value led backlog / delivery roadmap
• Collaborating with Customers, Engineering, Product Management and User Experience to define and order a single backlog, which delivers value incrementally, with enough detail to;
  • Start work on in the next 3-4 sprints
  • Get ready to deliver for the next 2-4 months
  • Prioritize and plan the next 4-12 months
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to set priorities
• Ensuring that work commitments are visible to, and made by the engineering team
• Reassessing value of discovered detail during changes
• Communicating to stakeholders regarding updates, changes, and timescales
• Supporting them in pursuing excellence in engineering and quality

Serve our customer by

• Empathizing and making their lives easier through good design which saves them time
• Balancing the demands of support, new features and engineering excellence and reflecting that in the value delivered
• Helping to define opportunities to solve their problems
• Being clear about if/when their interests may be met
• Sharing development progress and getting feedback

Serve BeyondTrust by

• Develop product, user, market, and competition expertise in your areas of responsibility.
• Collaborating with Customers, Engineering, Product Management and User Experience to define and order a single backlog, which delivers value incrementally, with enough detail to;
  • Get ready to deliver for the next 1-3 months
  • Prioritize and plan the next 3-12 months
• Being open and clear about what is in the backlog, where, and what status
• Communicate progress to stakeholders, set realistic expectations
• Landing change effectively by contributing to scheduling, training, and documentation
• Any other activities in support of the business which can reasonably be expected to fall within the capabilities of a product owner.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent in a business or IT related discipline or equivalent professional experience in a software development environment.
• Experience appropriate to the role and security related products.
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders with often conflicting priorities and requirements.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of Scrum methodologies.

Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. BeyondTrust is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

BeyondTrust is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer and an equal opportunity employer, offering a competitive salary with excellent benefits. We welcome all candidate applications who meet the minimum qualifications listed above.

What truly makes BeyondTrust special are the people – people who keep the culture strong and make working here exciting, rewarding, and ultimately fun!

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