Product Owner

Codazen is looking for a Digital Producer / Product Owner excited to take on challenges in a growing and fast-paced environment. The candidate should have deep technical understanding and experience of driving and owning software product development principles and processes. The Digital Producer / Product Owner will ensure that the software products and experiences delivered meet the client’s needs and goals. You are responsible to work with clients to define and clarify product strategy and goals, make recommendations, and drive forward the team’s success to achieve those client’s defined goals.  

 This role is responsible in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure that the Scrum teams are working on stories and technical work that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality. Experience with Agile methodologies is a requirement, and the candidate must be detail oriented with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of team members. In particular, experience in creating effective, actionable user stories to drive software product development is preferred.

• Gather and define scope and requirements with clients to achieve the software product goals, and relay those requirements to the rest of the teams.  
• Identify and understand product risks along with triggers that impact severity.  Work with clients to clarify requirements and mitigate these risks.  
• Lead task prioritization and backlog grooming with cross-functional teams, communicate prioritization to creative, engineering, production teams effectively and accurately.  
• Build and maintain strong client relationship through daily communication.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, project briefs, and task requirements with defined parameters and input from team members as needed.  
• Construct user stories with well-defined requirements and confirm requirements are satisfied upon development completion.  
• Facilitate and support collaboration and effective workflow between project team members. 

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in information science, computer science or equivalent experience. 
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience as professional Product Owner, running multiple initiatives and managing various stakeholders simultaneously. 
• Proven success managing the delivery and release of consumer-facing digital projects or enterprise software products. 
• Experience managing creative and engineer teams in a client-facing environment is strongly preferred. 
• Understanding of web application and general software development
• Strong knowledge of digital disciplines including: Strategy, Creative, Information Architecture, Business Analysis, Technology, QA, and Analytics.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and Agile Methodologies 
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with great interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Detail-oriented, take-ownership approach, self-organizing and highly skilled in time management to facilitate involvement in multiple projects.
• Collaborative attitude, stellar communication skills, and a results-driven mindset. 
• This role will be 100% onsite Monday through Friday based out of Irvine, CA.

• Certified Scrum Product Owner 
• Experience with Jira, Asana