Job Description
TITLE: SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER
LOCATION: REMOTE
CONTRACT: 6 MONTHS TO START, EXTEND TO 12+ MONTH
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Drive product strategy and prioritization by analyzing customer needs.
- Lead meetings with cross-functional stakeholders to gather business requirements; communicate possible solution options and drive teams to consensus.
- Prioritize and maintain product backlog.
- Manage product roadmap.
- Translate product roadmap features into detailed documentation covering functional specifications, process flow diagrams, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
- Engage in all stages of product creation including design and development.
- Participate in scrum meetings and product development sprints.
- Ensure all requests are accurately captured, prioritized, and correctly built to user requirements.
- Maintain and communicate weekly status updates to cross functional teams.
- Demo new product features to stakeholders, provide documentation, and conduct User Acceptance Testing sessions.
- Deeply understand the technology stack and overall system architecture and leverage that information to make the correct product decisions and tradeoffs between feasibility, scope of work, and user needs.
- Define important metrics and analyze performance that inform success and opportunities.
- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.
EDUCATION:
EXPERIENCE:
- 7+ years of experience in product management developing, launching, and supporting consumer-facing software products and SaaS commercial business applications.
- Experience working directly with customers.
- Experience building partnerships across multiple cross-functional groups (Executive management, Legal, Marketing, Engineering)
- Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Jira, Confluence, and related tools for building detailed
- documentation.
- Experience with market and user research.
- Strong understanding of APIs and integrations.
- Experience working independently, without significant manager involvement.
- Should manage own time and work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to multi-task and work well in a fast-paced environment and excited to relentlessly solve many technical challenges.
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
BIG PLUS:
- Background in computer science or related technology development.
- Experience as a developer, business systems analyst, and/or QA.