Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner
Job Type: Contract To Hire
Job Location: Remote
Description
The Product Owner works on a cross functional team to create meaningful and simple experiences for their product’s customers. They own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer wants and needs. A PO typically is new to the role of Product Owner, and as such likely manages products with limited scope and impact.
The Product Owner is responsible for articulating and translating the overall vision for the product into strategy and tactics, and for identifying specific solutions in order to drive necessary business outcomes. This highly collaborative role works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members, in order to rapidly deliver quality solutions to customers.
Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences
Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with our client priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed.
Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings
Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis
Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))
Education
Required:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Preferred:
Certified Product Owner or similar certification
4-6 years relevant business experience
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
Strong organization skills and attention to detail
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies.
Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices
Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint
No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises product teams with cross-functional team members.
The projected hourly range for this position is $75 to $90. On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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