Junior Product Manager / Senior product owner

Full-Time Anywhere Closes: 2022-08-23

Description
At SparkMeter our mission is to electrify everything and everyone. We help utilities and governments make the transition to electrification while providing affordable, reliable, clean power. We don’t care where in the world you are or how big or small you are. We are particularly interested in solving these problems in underserved markets that are served by outdated incumbents.

SparkMeter is searching for a Senior Product Owner to lead the definition of new products and enhancements to existing products. This role will work closely with customers, product managers, and engineers and will have the primary responsibility of defining the customer-facing portion of our product backlog for the Koios multi-tenant SaaS application and SparkMeter mobile apps. You can grow into a product manager role from this position.

 

What you will be doing:

  • Work with product managers to understand our business strategy, product and feature roadmaps
  • Interact with customers and engineering during all phases of the software development process
  • Facilitate sessions with customers and engineering to review requirements, demonstrate clickable mockups, demonstrate new features, and accept and incorporate feedback into the backlog
  • Work closely with UI/UX designers to develop mockups and clickable prototypes
  • Develop user stories for all customer-facing functionality containing detailed acceptance criteria and referencing mockups where appropriate
  • Work as part of an agile software development team, attend sprint planning, backlog grooming sessions, and daily stand-ups
  • Lead backlog grooming sessions and facilitate daily stand-ups

 

Requirements & Skills:

  • 5+ years of experience working in a product owner role as a member of a product development team
  • 5+ years developing both user-facing and technical user stories
    Experience working on an agile development team using any agile methodology such as Scrum
  • Experience working with product managers, engineers, and UI/UX designers
  • Experience interacting with customers, providing product demos, and gathering feedback
  • Experience developing user stories to support the development of a multi-tenant SaaS application with an emphasis on UI/UX design
  • Experience developing user stories for mobile applications
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • The desire and ability to collaborate with team members, business partners, and customers

 

Benefits
We are a small and flat company with no bureaucracy
You will work with customers and team members all over the world
You will have the ability to select and implement new technologies
You will work with amazing people solving interesting problems
You can work remotely, with the option to travel to our office in DC for team events

Tagged as: Remote