We are seeking a dedicated Product Owner to serve as the voice of the client and develop and maintain a product roadmap based on strategic goals and product vision. The Product Owner will manage the product backlog, prioritize features, interact with stakeholders, and ensure alignment with enterprise OKRs. The ideal candidate has strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication abilities, and a deep understanding of market trends.
What You’ll Do:
Set the strategic direction for data and analytic products. Work with stakeholders to understand the business needs and shape the vision and roadmap for data-driven initiatives. Prioritize and manage the development of data analytics products by working with data teams, and engineers to ensure that data is managed efficiently, meet user needs, and provide actionable insights. Work closely with stakeholders across the organization to identify key challenges and opportunities where data can provide solutions. By translating business needs into clear product requirements, they ensure the data product is strategically aligned with overall business objectives. Utilize advanced data analytics techniques to gather insights and inform product decisions. Create and maintain a product roadmap that prioritizes features and improvements based on data insights.
Gather and analyze data usage and customer feedback to continuously improve the product. Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to stakeholders at all levels by engaging with executives, business users, and IT teams to gather feedback, address concerns, and inform stakeholders about project progress.
Product Roadmap and Backlog Management:
Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog (features and stories) from the product roadmap and strategic portfolio backlog.
Understand and communicate business direction and vision to the team.
Ensure wireframes, prototypes, or workflows are created and signed off by stakeholders before any work is done by the development team or vendor.
Stakeholder Interaction:
Regularly interact with stakeholders to understand business value and prioritize work that delivers value to the customer.
Understand enterprise OKRs and ensure features align with them.
Vendor Management:
Monitor vendor’s application release calendar and add updates/upgrades to the product roadmap.
Review release notes for impacts, enhancements, bug fixes, and new usable product capabilities.
Communicate impacts to product owner peers and obtain alignment and commitment to releases.
Agile and SAFe Alignment:
Regularly communicate with the product manager to ensure the product roadmap aligns with business goals.
Collaborate with the product manager to ensure product features and enablers support strategic business goals.
Prioritize the product backlog to align with enterprise priorities.
Ensure sprint goals are set and communicated to the team before the sprint starts.
Properly decompose features into user stories through story mapping.
Product Team Leadership:
Represent the product team to business owners, clients, and end users (i.e., stakeholders).
Work with analysts and other product team members to build subject matter expertise of the overall product.
Lead the team in taking ownership of all aspects of the product.
Write well-defined product user stories with clear and testable acceptance criteria.
Groom the product backlog and refine user stories to communicate value, readying for the upcoming Program Increment.
Own the end-to-end release of new features from ideation through testing, acceptance, release, and validation.
Ensure product documentation, release notes, support guides, and user guides are created and maintained.
Professional Conduct:
Perform duties outside of normal business hours depending on business needs.
Work with the product team to ensure change management and incident management processes are followed.
Ensure product vulnerabilities are remediated based on age and criticality of the vulnerability.
What You’ll Bring:
4+ years of experience as a product owner in a fast-paced environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Business Intelligence, or a related field.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to nontechnical and technical audiences.
Strong foundation in data technologies such as data warehouses, date lakes, Snowflake, PowerBI, Tableau, SQL.
Outstanding presentation, communication, and information-sharing skills.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Working experience with common product management tools, such as Jira.
Industry certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) are highly desired.
Experience stepping into new and unfamiliar markets and business environments and learning to identify and translate the requirements of those environments into a coherent product vision.
Creative thinking with good interpersonal skills and relationship building with team members.
Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver a common goal.
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