Product Owner

Job Description :

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Role: PRODUCT OWNER

Location: Salt Lake City , Utah

Summary:

We are looking for a high‐energy, adaptive team player with a great work ethic to join our Information Technology (IT) team as a Product Owner, reporting to the USIMS Program Manager/Chief Product Owner. The Product Owner is accountable for the delivery of components of the USIMS system that create obvious and compelling value to our stakeholders and users and looks relentlessly for the Why.

 

The Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate for this position has experience in product ownership, education, financial systems, and data warehousing. They are a Product Owner with a passion for data, and for making peoples’ lives easier. They trust their teams to deliver the how, while they work on the why.

 

Principal Duties:

• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) in relevant product domains. Rapidly develops an understanding of the user base to guide product decisions.
• Work closely with all stakeholders to communicate customer needs, adjust requirements based on technical feedback, support backlog refinement, and manage priorities.
• Capture and document requirements, present user stories to product teams, and ensure new functionality meets the acceptance criteria.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features.
• Actively participate in all aspects of the product development cycle.
• Employ and develop product planning and management best practices, establishing and executing reliable processes for collecting and prioritizing customer requirements.
• Lead through influence.
• Assist the development team with release planning, functional research, and testing of releases.
• Work with other Product Owners to ensure dependencies are prioritized appropriately across teams and sharing best practices.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Degree – Candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent experience.
• Functional Experience – Candidates must have 3+ years of experience within an education domain and/or financial domain. Both is preferred.
• Product Owner Experience – Candidates must have 3+ years of software development product ownership experience.
• Leadership – Candidates must demonstrate strong leadership, time management and problem-solving skills with a minimum of 3 years leading people (either through influence or direct report).
• Interpersonal Relationships – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work well with others of all personality types while demonstrating problem-solving and the ability to prioritize tasks.
• Communication – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to communicate in verbal and written form with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Initiative – Candidates must demonstrate success as a self-starting, hardworking and inquisitive worker.
• Teamwork – Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
• Agile/Scrum - Candidates must demonstrate experience in an agile product environment to include deep understanding and experience with agile methodologies.

Bonus skills:

• Certification –PSPO I or greater, PSM I or greater, CSM 1 or greater, CSPO 1 or greater.
• Domain Driven Design –Understanding and experience with Domain Driven Design
• Automation Experience – Candidates demonstrate experience in automation software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies, tools and processes.
• Data Lake and/or Date Warehousing – Experience with planning and implementing a data warehouse, data lake, or other data repositories.