Product Owner

Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business-it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world.

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We thrive at work and at home - we are supported by meaningful benefits, compensation, learning and development solutions, and opportunities for rewarding careers. We are firmly committed to the well-being and safety of our people.

This is a remote role.

The Product Owner, role is an opportunity for a motivated team-based individual that excels in a collaborative, data rich, technical, and customer focused environment. The Smart Services Product Owner is critical in achieving Trane Technologies' vision for a more sustainable world. They are responsible for the vision and delivery of Trane's software portfolio that provides remote inspections, smart maintenance and other connected equipment maintenance support.

The role is within Trane's Digital Solutions organization, which has a unique feel of a startup while also understanding how to scale to large production environments. The Product Owner is critical to the success of Trane's Digital Services business by serving as a technical expert that leads an agile software development team in the creation and expansion of software applications that provide data visualization, analysis and reporting capabilities.

The product owner will collaborate with portfolio and business leaders to create a vision that connects their product to the broader business and portfolio strategy. This strategy will guide your creation of a specific product solution roadmap that will be used to align the technical and business stakeholders for resource and funding support. You will also be responsible for translating the customer and business needs into the agile software process by gathering, writing, managing and explaining feature requirements for the software development team. Your ongoing contribution to the culture and delivery of the team by leading software development sprints, create user stories, refining backlog, participating in user experience activities, defining MVP / offering releases, and accepting the completion of user stories will be key to the success of the program.

What you will do:

• Provide full accountability and transparency for vision, delivery of the assigned product.
• Serve as a technical expert for assigned offerings.
• Develops an understanding of the customer experience and translates customer and business needs into solution roadmaps.
• Builds, maintains and prioritizes development backlog given input and collaboration with stakeholders and team members.
• Provide leadership to development team including creating user stories and acceptance criteria, planning sprints, managing backlog, organizing customer releases, and supporting agile development standard work.
• Work closely in a "hands-on" style with development team including addressing daily prioritization needs, providing real-time feedback and answering questions on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure adherence to best practices for agile software development.
• Provide updates, information and demos of product features and timelines to stakeholders, business leadership and external partners/vendors.
• Conduct or facilitate voice of customer activities to identify business, customer, and user needs based on stakeholder interviews, focus groups, "day-in-the-life" studies, and advisory panels.
• Represent the needs of end customers, controls and service business in all activities. Capture user and business needs in the form of user stories, functionality expectations, performance requirements, test plans, acceptance criteria, and system interactions.
• Coordinates functional and technical details with other Product Owners

What we expect of you:

• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or related field
• 4+ years of experience as product owner, product manager, solutions lead or similar role for Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.
  OR
  8+ years in customer facing HVAC service, HVAC controls, building data analytics, building energy management (BAS, BEMS) or similar HVAC.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment to plan, develop, refine, and launch successful software products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Eagerness to understanding customer needs in a building environment.
• Value continuous learning and collaboration with a tendency toward being a natural problem solver.
• Strong collaboration and people skills; ability to inspire others on a team.
• A strong teaming approach will be imperative to deliver a consistent and aligned experience.
• Challenge the status quo and always think about ways to improve yourself, the team and the organization.
• Receptive to feedback, willing to make changes and proactive about finding solutions.
• A multitasker with excellent time management skills who can handle tight deadlines.
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Ideally, you would also be familiar with one or more of the following.

• 5+ years of relevant industry and/or product or project management experience
• Experience with remote building service solutions
• Familiarity with Confluence, JIRA, and user experience (UX) design
• Experience working within a greenfield software development environment.
• Experience collaborating with remote teams (including international)
• Leadership & Accountability: Possesses the mind-set of a business leader, with a focus on delivering measurable business and customer value and optimizing ROI.
• Decisive: Makes decisions and prioritizes effectively using data and facts
• Communication: Strong communicator of business and technical information at all levels of the organization
• Process knowledge: Strong familiarity with software development processes, facility markets and services, building systems, controls and energy management routines.

Base Compensation Range is $100,000 to $160,000

Disclaimer: This base salary range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed.

We are committed to achieving workforce diversity reflective of our communities. We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status