Our teams leverage the Agile Scrum development methodology and understand the importance of having a true Product Owner. This is a highly visible role with significant responsibility, frequently meeting with Directors and Business Unit Leaders who use our platform to securely build and operate their workloads. You need to have a mix of technical proficiency in modern Identity ad security architecture, strong abstract thinking skills, and the ability to turn ideas into concrete requirements that solve the right problems. You must have practical experience defining and leading critical software systems delivery from definition through launch and operation. You must be able to thrive and succeed in a highly regulated environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Provide vision and serve as a champion of customer perspectives to the team in the form of clearly written requirements and working in collaboration with the team to size the work with clear acceptance criteria.
  • 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 managing 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 expectations 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.
  • 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

  • Hybrid working with 3 days in office (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays), 2 days remote
  • May require minimal travel for meetings and/or training
  • May require work outside of normal working hours due to global support


This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

Compensation:

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $102,000 $127,000 annually. 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. 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Cedar Rapids, IA; Philadelphia, PA; Denver, CO).  Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.