Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential and commercial building services settings. Xylem also provides a leading portfolio of smart metering, network technologies and advanced infrastructure analytics solutions for water, electric and gas utilities. The Company’s more than 16,500 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2017 revenue of $4.7 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.
The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.
Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The Role: Sensus, a Xylem brand, is seeking a Solution Owner to lead the development of end to end solutions that enable our public service customers to solve new problems with our software & hardware products. This role will translate customer needs and high level marketing requirements into specifications that define how the solution will be developed and tested, all while collaborating regularly with product management, engineering, customer operations, and solution test.
To succeed in this role, you must be able to communicate across all organizations within the company. You will work with Product Manager Counterparts to translate, define, and refine solution requirements. You will work with development teams as a representative of the customer and market to create, communicate, and answer questions about requirements. Your role as Solution Owner will bridge the gap between a Product Manager’s understanding of the needs of the marketplace and the detailed solution requirements needed by development teams.
Responsibilities:
Drives Solution Definition
Acts as customer, sales, and operations facing subject matter expert for cross vertical customer solutions
Qualifications:
Additional Information:
Physical Demands
(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
Light lifting (20-25 lbs.), office environment
Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility
Work Environment
(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)
EOE/Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Disabled