Senior Product Owner

Position Summary 

As Product Owner you will be responsible for using your market knowledge, business acumen and communication skills to translate vision to tangible values to drive a culture of product quality.  The Product Owner will be accountable for engaging with customers, stakeholders, and their cross-functional teams to understand business opportunities and challenges.  Developing creative and innovative solutions and bringing them to market. This position will work closely with other functions in the business such as Design, Development and Quality Assurance across the whole software delivery lifecycle to ensure pragmatic and holistic delivery. This is a collaborative and customer first mindset, and the Product Owner will need to be comfortable working in an emergent Agile environment with colleagues at varying levels of Agile experience.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for prioritizing, defining, and writing requirements for implementation of new product features ensuring all proposed changes are reviewed, feedback is incorporated, and any impact is fully communicated to internal partners. As well as, understanding end user behaviors, wants, unmet needs, and key behaviors. 
• Translate product vision, wireframes, concepts, and mockups into product requirements consumable by our software developers.  
• Organize and prioritize product backlog to maximize releasable product value for our customers. In addition, lead the Backlog Refinement and Sprint Reviews, Contribute to the Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives and  
• Work closely with the Agile team members to communicate the product goal and provide timely feedback and answers to their questions to ensure that sprint goals are met.  
• Collaborate with Development Teams, Designers, other internal stakeholders, and Product Managers to write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria and ensure that the stories meet the Definition of Ready.  
• Assist Product Managers and work with the team to create Release Plans while setting expectations with internal stakeholders.
• Assist Product Managers and the Director of Product Operations to report on delivery metrics and assist teams in mitigating impediments impacting the successful completion of Sprint Goals or Release Plans.  
• Contribute to Agile best practices and process improvement.  

Skills and Experience Needed: 

• Bachelor’s degree, Business, IT, Engineering, preferred 
• 5-7 years of product management experience in a growing SaaS organization. Specific experience in breaking down large feature initiatives into smaller iterative increments of delivery.  
• 5 years’ experience in Agile / Scrum methodology, including defining a minimal viable product, and exposure to other software development methodologies. With relevant industry or functional experience depending on the product. 
• Experienced in seeing the business as a customer and translate requirements into technical and data solutions.  
• Experienced in creating and maintaining a backlog and roadmap, and to prioritize that backlog based on business value and technical feasibility. Using management tools i.e., Jira, Azure, Devops. 

Competencies: 

Accountability 

Delegation & Empowerment 

Adaptability

Driving for Results 

Building Partnerships

Initiating Action 

Business Acumen

Managing Conflict 

Coaching and Developing Others

Technical/Professional Knowledge/Skills 

Creating an Inclusive Environment  

Customer Focus