The Product Owner (PO) develops and communicates their product’s vision to be fulfilled by their agile team(s). The PO is the team's key stakeholder who serves as proxy for the customer, both internal and external, and effectively engages other stakeholders, including other POs, to define and prioritize deliverables for their agile teams. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is empowered to accept work as done. The PO is dedicated to fulfilling these responsibilities and participates in one or two agile teams. The PO works closely with the team to align around objectives, incentives, and culture, and also engages critical stakeholders and customers to inform their product's vision and backlog as a means to help the organization achieve business agility.

Responsibilities

  • Research and evaluate market-based and customer-inspired insights that inform the product's vision and comprehensive strategy planning.
  • Provide vision and serve as a champion of customer perspectives to the Agile team in the form of clearly written epics, themes and user stories each with clear acceptance criteria in collaboration with the team. Help the team make business trade-offs between near term and longer term product goals.  Provide leadership to make the hard calls on scope and competing priorities while realistically manage stakeholder demands
  • Establish and prioritize the product roadmap and its backlog in collaboration with the team.
  • Collaborate proactively in ceremonies with UI/UX team, product scrum team, and other product owners to maintain the product roadmap, business outcomes, and goals.
  • Lead regular backlog refinement workshops to help estimate relative feature value and update delivery forecasts to aid prioritization, minimize oversubscription of delivery teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
  • Ensure product aligns with company strategy and broader product strategies through regular communication with customers, stakeholders and product management. Coordinate with the Scrum Master to facilitate short feedback loops between delivery teams and stakeholders through frequent deliveries and sharing of lessons learned.
  • Engage in scaled agile practices and coordinate with other Product owners (as needed) to promote cross-team alignment around product roadmaps and dependencies.
  • Lead product release planning with technical and business stakeholders and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
  • Participate in system demos at the end of the iteration and provide story/feature acceptance per the pre-agreed “Definition of Done” criteria.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or experience work in a related field.
  • Solid understanding of the product lifecycle.
  • In-depth experience with agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up-to-date on industry standards and best practices
  • Comfortable working with multiple teams, in-house and remote
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Accurate and precise attention to detail.
  • Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience with JIRA, or a similar agile product management toolset.
  • Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite; working knowledge of software development.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Two years of related work experience.
  • Strongly prefer knowledge and experience with Appian
  • Product Owner certification (e.g. CSPO, SAFe POPM)
  • Track record of continued and recent education in agile, including training, conferences, user groups and self-study
  • Knowledge of approaches discussed in the agile space: XP, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, Crystal, FDD, etc.
  • Experience as a collaborative leader.

Working Conditions

  • Office environment

Compensation

The salary for this position generally ranges between $105,000 - $130,000 annually/per hour. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.