Product Owner - Remote

**Remote Position**

Requirements:

• 6+ years of Product Owner experience

• 8+ years of overall experience within the software implementation and SCRUM environment

• Experience working cross-functionally with technical teams and stake holders/end users.

• Ability to work collaboratively with project leadership, Product Managers, Product Engineers, User Representatives and Change Management and other Scrum team members

• This candidate must have previous experience working directly with developers, data engineers and testers in a full stack software development environment

• Willingness to roll up your sleeves to resolve design issues, write user stories, test software and drive a team towards delivery

• Experience developing a mature/refined backlog

• Ability to articulate experience navigating through developing a product through design, vision and collaboration.

• Ability to work independently, take on challenges and focus on successful delivery of the product.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participates and contributes as a subject matter expert on Product Roadmaps, Product Vision, and SDLC in support of the new development of a web application.

• Assists in developing Key Decision content related to process re-engineering

• Assists Product Managers in developing and maintaining the feature roadmap for development and release activities

• Works with Product Engineers, End Users, developers and testers on scrum teams daily; ideally co-located with the scrum team

• Defines acceptance criteria for all user stories

• Works with User Representatives to solicit feedback from end user about story grooming, functionality issues and software demos

• Reviews and provides feedback on features and the feature roadmap as they are developed

• Answer questions and help developers make decisions about stories during development and testing

• Contributes to defining User Acceptance test scenarios

• Sign off on Release testing prior to a production release

• Provide formal input to leaders on Go, No-Go decision making prior to go live

• Provide hands on support to users immediately after go-live

• Capture problems experienced by end users and report issues to the program team after go-live

Additional Pointers:

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with customers to co-develop a backlog and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.

• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.

• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.

• Develops, owns, and executes product backlog.

• Translates product backlog features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.

• Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.

• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.

• During Development Sprints, this PO will be responsible for:

• Working with Product Engineers, End Users, developers and testers on scrum teams daily; ideally co-located with the scrum team

• Define acceptance criteria for all user stories

• Work with User Representatives to solicit feedback from end user about story grooming, functionality issues and software demos

• Review and provide feedback on features and the feature backlog as they are developed

• Answer questions and help developers make decisions about stories during development and testing

• Participate in user testing in sprints

• During Testing & Release Activities, this candidate will be responsible for:

• Contributing to defining User Acceptance test scenarios

• Participate in User Acceptance testing during sprints and during release preparation

• Sign off on Release testing prior to a production! release

• Work with Change Management (CM) team members to create training and communications plans

• Assist CM as they develop communications to executives, stakeholders and users of the system

• Provide formal input to leaders on Go, No-Go decision making prior to go live

• Provide hands on support to users immediately after go-live

• Capture problems experienced by end users and report issues to the program team after go-live

Skills Required:

• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen

• Customer first, blue sky thinking mind set

• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment

• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability

• Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of product or project development experience

• At least 3 year of experience in Product Management and/or Product Development

• Proven track record of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset

• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles

• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g. dashboards, APIs, real time alerts, etc.

Optional Skills:

• Background in software development preferred

• PMP Certification a plus, but not required.

• Product Owner Certification a plus

• Property Tax Administration a plus, but not required.

• Agile Project Management methodology

• Microsoft Azure application

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