Salesforce Product Owner

Description: As a Product Owner at Blackthorn, you’ll work closely with our Product Managers and Engineering teams to maintain existing products and bring new products to market as part of an Agile team.

THIS POSITION REQUIRES PREVIOUS SALESFORCE EXPERIENCE

• Create, manage and fully own detailed user story requirements and acceptance criteria working with the broader Product team.
• Build an understanding of our main customer segments (from SMB to Enterprise and across industries) and the primary use cases for Blackthorn.
• Help manage and prioritize the product backlogs based on the most important initiatives for the product and engineering teams to tackle.
• Support and collaborate with a passionate, cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, user researchers, designers, and marketing managers to execute against the planned roadmap and continuously up-level the product experience.
• Build analytics to visualize and track the health and growth of specific products
• Perform a needs and revenue analysis to make data-driven approaches to new features to develop or features to sunset.
• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
• Own all Product Owner responsibilities in daily and weekly scrum ceremonies
• Develop a deep technical expertise of Blackthorn’s portfolio of products  

• 5+ years of experience as a BA or PO of software products on an Agile team, taking epics and turning them into user story requirements and detailed acceptance criteria.
• 3+ years working as a translator between Product Owner/Product team/customers needs and Engineering/Tech Leads for Salesforce requirements/implementations.
• Salesforce Admin or Developer certification or equivalent experience
• Have the ability to organize and communicate vast amounts of complexity in writing at a startup pace.
• Have built products by collaborating cross-functionally across engineering, product, data and analytics, marketing, design and other key stakeholders.
• Not only have you shipped new products, but you’re obsessed with continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases.
• Strong analytical skills and mindset able to produce documentation quickly.
• Ideally, you've worked on an Event Management or Payment product or on a Salesforce.com AppExchange product