Product Owner

Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product owner. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Translate high-level strategy & product direction into features, epics and user stories
• Understand the business value of requirements profoundly and convey it internally externally
• Consult and work with project stakeholders to understand business drivers and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements
• Elicit, capture, analyze, refine and document business requirements and user stories
• Communicate business and customer value to the team in a manner that sparks innovative thought
• Work closely with Agile team members
• Work to define the acceptance criteria for user stories
• Accept/reject the delivered code from within each Sprint
• Responsible for making ongoing decisions to continue development down the current path
• Create Capabilities and Features, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to groom these components to a state of ready for the Agile teams
• Take responsibility for the development of ongoing enhancements, creating and prioritizing user stories within the Agile teams

About You 

• 8+ years of experience with Agile and Scrum practices
• Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) preferred
• Experience managing software projects built in .NET, XML and SQL Server preferred (C#?)
• Experience working with Jira
• Experience with data governance products (e.g. Varonis, CyberArk), Security/Networking and knowledge of interfacing to storage platforms (Windows, NetApp, EMC, NAS, NFS) is desirable
• Proficient with project management techniques and tools
• You can identify, define, analyze, prioritize and refine requirements, communicating milestones and visions to the development team
• You can represent the customer with the ability to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and work to drive user stories to acceptance throughout the Agile software development life cycle
• You have intermediate level of proficiency with Excel and other Microsoft Products
• You have experience writing and translating business requirements
• You are an analytical person who can control the details but still see the full picture
• Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change
• You have the tenacity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Experience in the following technologies is a plus: o Storage platforms (Windows, NetApp, EMC lsilon, NAS, NFS), o Device connectors (Unix, Windows, SSCM, ServiceNow, CMDB, Active Directory), o 3rd party interfaces (OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft System Center, Active Directory, PeopleSoft, Office 365), o Databases (SQL Server, Oracle or Sybase), o Map Reduce Frameworks (Hadoop)