SUMMARY:

The Product Owner (PO) Owns effectively conveying the wants of needs of clients and the business derectly to the development teams. The PO is responsible for product requirements, engaging with teams to understand market and system needs, and ultimately delivering quality software to help the company generate revenue and/or reduce costs. The PO will lead the product roadmap initiatives through the software development cycle, including design, development, testing, documentation, release and training.  

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS AND ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Product Roadmap:

• Conveys the vision of the products we are building to the scrum team through their ownership of the product backlog.
• Uses epics, features, product vision and market needs to refine user stories and requirements into clear, workable product requirements
• Supports development team in planning, estimating, and allocating resources appropriately
• Leads team in analyzing business needs and technology choices
• Prioritizes backlog to support product roadmap, and according to business value
• Defines and applies acceptance criteria for feature and user story release
• Participates in daily scrum meetings, and supports development team's ongoing questions, concerns, and feedback

Business and Technical Liason:

• Develop, maintain and manage relationships with stakeholders, keeping them informed and engaged throughout project lifecycles
• Acts as liason between development team and subject matter experts to clarify user stories
• Acts as liason between development team and internal users or client facing teams to track issues or resolve problems.
• Act as the project lead and key stakeholder
• Act as subject matter expert for the product
• Maintains knowledge of core Microsoft enterprise server and development technologies to support technology decisions

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

Position Reports to: Sr. Product Manager

Direct Reports: No

Career Track:

LOCATION:

JOB FAMILY: Product Management

FLSA CLASS: Exempt

JOB CODE: ECO509

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certification/

Knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in science or business, or equivalent
• Scrum training preferred
• Pragmatic Marketing training preferred

Experience: 

• 2-5 years in software development and/or technology management / analysis
• Experience in data management is preferred
• Technical depth of understanding deep enough to fluently converse with developers.
• Expertise in design, implementation, & maintenance of enterprise applications is required
• Expertise in business analysis, project scoping, and expectation management is required
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Skills/Abilities:

• Experience in SCRUM Agile methodology
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Business and technical savvy

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Instructions to Manager:  Discuss physical environment of the job including travel requirements, exposure to risk or hazards on the job or within the job environment.

REQUIRED PHYSICAL ABILITIES

Instructions to Manager:  Discuss physical requirements needed in the regular course of work (i.e. that encompass the majority of routine work on a daily or weekly basis) of the  such as ability to lift, climb stairs, drive an automobile, etc.