The Position
As iFit’s Product Owner for Cardio Equipment, the ideal candidate will need to study and understand fitness equipment industry and trends, competitors strategies and offerings, and the needs of our users to set the strategic direction of our cardio products. They’ll create a prioritized set of product requirements to deliver high-value, quality software releases in support of our strategic goals. With senior-level responsibility, they’ll connect the wants and needs of our target market customers and users directly to the product development team in a highly dynamic, collaborative, and responsive way. In this position, the candidate will identify, define, analyze, prioritize, and refine technology platform requirements, and will communicate those requirements to our product development teams. The Product Owner will need to prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements, and define priorities throughout the development lifecycle. They’ll also work directly with various internal and external stakeholders, including senior management and department managers, as well as with the development teams, to ensure successful translation of those requirements into high-quality software.
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to define requirements of a complex software product
- Define, prioritize, and clarify user stories
- Work with other product owners to understand use cases, features, business, and technical domain rules, as well as overall product goals
- Work with engineering teams to continuously improve product ownership and other agile processes
- Maintain the functional quality of the work being delivered by setting and evaluating expectations and acceptance criteria
- Communicate priorities based on well-defined and measured business cases
- Establish goals and metrics to measure effectiveness after release, then monitor and report on progress
- Produce technically-focused user stories, then collaborate with team members to ensure accuracy and feasibility
- Build and groom product backlogs
- Create short-, medium-, and long-term product roadmaps
- Own and maintain product documentation
- Study competitive offerings in the market and anticipate customer needs
- Identify and manage key systems metrics used to advise technical direction
What we’re looking for
- Strong knowledge of agile development practices, methodologies, and tools. Direct, hands-on experience with writing user stories, grooming product backlogs, and coordinating and prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- 4+ years Scrum experience, with at least two as Product Owner (CSPO strongly desired)
- Outstanding technical and non-technical communication skills
- Ability to understand abstract, complex systems from technical descriptions
- Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues
- Ability to influence decision making at all levels of the organization without formal reporting structure authority
- A strong, high-level knowledge of common web and mobile platform architectures
- Experience authoring technical user stories and use cases
Why iFit®
We’re a small group of talented designers, developers, marketers, and sales associates that are housed
within the larger, 3,000+ ICON Health & Fitness corporation. We have the flexibility and feel of a startup company with the security and benefits you would find in a larger corporate environment. We offer great health, dental, and eye coverage, plus we have napping couches, free soda, snacks, and more. New employees are also provided with a new iMac or MacBook and a choice of fitness equipment, i.e. treadmill, elliptical, bike, etc.
- Excellent health, vision, dental, and matching 401k benefits
- Great vacation and time off
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Macbook Pro and external monitor
- Free cell phone of your choice
- Free piece of fitness equipment of your choice
- Continuing education opportunities
- Free gym memberships to the fitness center of your choice
- Entry fee into one annual fitness event of your choice
- Highly competitive salary and compensation packages
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