Lead Product Owner

FEV is currently hiring for a Lead Product Owner. In this role, you will spearhead the development of a transformative K-12 education online tutoring product that drives measurable academic outcomes with priority schools and students and propels FEV Tutor to become the #1 direct-to-district tutoring provider in the United States. Thisrole reports to the Director of Product Management.

Who will succeed at this job:

• Embrace the product vision: Envision the product before it is built and guide the scrum team for product backlog management.
• Extremely Communicative: A cross-functional leader with outstanding communication skills; both written and oral, to internal and external stakeholders
• Problem solver: Ability to sort issues that arise while developing the product
• Collaborative teammate: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, QA as well as the FEV global leadership team
• Customer-first: envision and understand customers’ expectations of the product.
• Agile mindset: Understanding of agile methodologies and frameworks to manage product backlog, plan and conduct sprint reviews, and work effectively with the Scrum team.
• Data-driven: Draw insights from product data and uses them to prioritize features and improve the product
• Visionary Leader: Ability to lead in the face of uncertainty and take decisions with ownership
• Eye for design: This role will own the most important application used by millions of students, and will own a full redesign of it, and so aesthetics and visual detail will help in acceptance testing.

What you will do:

• Lead a team of 4 Product Owners regarding roles.
• You take responsibility to ensure that your engineering teams and project teams deliver to scope, to design, and on time.
• Own creation of user stories along with your product team. Own Acceptance Criteria as well as acceptance testing.
• Provide engineering team backlog management, iteration/sprint planning, and elaboration/grooming of the features.
• Work as part of and with cross-functional scrum teams and various stakeholders, including design/user experience, test engineering, system engineering and user experience.
• Prepare Team(s) backlog along with scrum team for Program Increment Planning. Drive” Definition of Ready” for user stories and features before Program Increment Planning. Do so at the process level helping your reporting Product Owners with it and reviewing their work.
• Managing and prioritizing the product backlog.
• Serving as a liaison between product management and development.
• Translating product managers’ strategies to tasks for development.

About you:

• Excellent fluency in English to collaborate with stakeholders and international colleagues.
• Experience as a team lead / management.
• A minimum of 5 years experience as a Product Owner
• Working experience in Eng ticketing tools like Azure DevOps or JIRA
• Sense of UI/UX to provide feedback to designers
• Strong analytical and results-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coordination skills; working with intercultural and interdisciplinary teams comes easily to you.
• Bonus: SAFe or other SDLC related certification

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

At Focus Edumatics, we believe a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DE&I”) is integral to hiring exceptional people and creating an enduring business. To inspire growth, we aspire to create an organisation where every person is celebrated, valued, and empowered to achieve their full potential. These beliefs and actions are true to Focus Edumatics' philosophy, which is rooted in how we invest, hire, and show up day in and day out.

We will continuously look for ways to improve and evolve in our ever-changing world, and we are driven to ensure Focus Edumatics is one of the premier places to work for all by creating diverse teams, strengthening our culture of inclusion, and giving everyone an equitable opportunity to succeed.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, labor and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.

About us:

Focus Edumatics is a mission-driven, technology-enabled education services organization that provides high-quality, research-based online learning solutions to disadvantaged and at-risk students in the United States. Since 2010, Focus Edumatics has partnered with schools and districts to provide high-quality, structured, 1:1 online tutoring solutions delivered by an extensive24/7 network of highly trained tutors. For its K–12 customers, Focus Edumatics provides high-touch customer assistance, tailored program design, data analytics, and ongoing formative assessments. Focus Edumatics is on a mission to increase access to quality education for 25 million American students and become the educator, partner, and employer of choice in the education services industry.

FEV Tutor is a mission-driven, technology-enabled education services organization that provides high-quality, research-based online learning solutions to disadvantaged and at-risk students in the United States. Since 2010,

FEV Tutor and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Focus Edumatics Pvt. Ltd., have partnered with schools and districts to provide high-quality, structured, 1:1 online tutoring solutions delivered by an extensive 24/7 network of highly trained tutors. For its K–12 customers, FEV provides high-touch customer assistance, tailored program design, data analytics, and ongoing formative assessments. FEV Tutor is edtech company focused on student outcomes

• FEV Tutor was founded to make high-quality online instruction available to as many kids as possible.
• We are a B2B virtualtutoring business that provides 1:1 and small group tutoringto predominantly disadvantaged and at-risk K-12 students in the U.S.
• Critical Solve for Pandemic Disruption: FEV offers a critical solution to the sustained learning loss and teacher shortages caused by the pandemic —helping students and teachers. The impact of our high dosage tutoring on student outcomes is measurable and clear.
• Solutions Built by and for Educators: We are educators ourselves and involve our students’ teachers, administrators, parents, and families in the creation of innovative tutoring programs that serve as a natural extension of the student's core classroom.
• Poised for Growth with Exceptional People: We were just acquired by a PE firm called Alpine Investors and are poised to grow. Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that is committed to building enduring companies by working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people.

FEV Tutor was acquired by Alpine Partners in 2022 with the goal of increasing access to quality education for millions of American students and becoming the educator, partner, and employer of choice in the education services industry.

Alpine Investors, founded in 2001, is a people-driven private equity firm focused on building enduring companies by working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people. Alpine specializes in investments in the software and services industries, and since its founding, Alpine has made over 300 investments, with 157 closed deals in 2022 alone, and has hired hundreds of executives for its portfolio companies. Alpine has raised eight flagship funds since 2001 and currently has $11 billion in assets under management as of 12/31/22.Alpine, a Certified B Corporation, is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Salt Lake City.