Product Owner III

About The Job

Origin is an exciting product for asset investment planning that helps stakeholders improve conditions of aging facilities by providing them easy to use forecasting tools for informed investment decisions. The cloud-based, capital planning tool gives strategic insights into facilities, assets and required resources to help determine where to focus limited funds. Leveraging predictive modelling, risk and cost calculations, the best-fit investment plan can be derived, funding requests better explained to executives and plans created for the next capital project.

The Product Owner is a crucial member of an agile team in ensuring that Product Managements product vision and business strategy is executed, thus driving growth. The Product Owner will consume roadmap and product backlog items, turning them into high-value solutions, and executing them with the development teams using agile methodologies. In this more senior role, you will be expected to indirectly lead individuals and teams, communicate with management and executives, and work with leadership from other organizations including Engineering and Product Management

What Youll Be Doing:

Provide leadership, guidance, and an example to junior Product Owners.
Engage with Product Management to influence visions, roadmaps, business strategies and outbound marketing collateral.
Partner with Engineering Manager to understand their agile team's needs and champion them with Product Management.
Lead or support development of methodologies and best practices.
Actively participate in management reviews and presentations as needed.
Develop solutions to real-world market problems identified by Product Managements roadmap.
Execute agile methodologies to fully develop solutions via story breakdown and agile ceremonies as a key member of an agile team.
Responsible for communicating priorities and goals at the beginning of each sprint in accordance with release goals, roadmap, and associated timelines/dependencies.
Participate in feature discovery with customers and the market and leverage this information to drive valuable solutions.
Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog of work for the development team to work from.
Serve as the champion of the customer experience and partner with UX/design, product counterparts, and professional Services to deliver delightful user experiences across all customer touchpoints.
Understand Product Managements business strategy, and evangelizing/executing it with agile development teams.
Diligently monitor KPI metrics and drive continuous improvements within the agile team.

What You Need:
BA/BS in a technical subject area like information science, computer science or equivalent work experience supporting products from a technical perspective.
5-7 Years of experience as Product Owner.
Proficiency in backlog/roadmap management tools such as Jira or AHA
Expert at developing user stories and acceptance criteria and communicating business value to the engineering team.
Consistent experience of working with engineering on communicating commitments and delivering results
Expert in Agile processes and principles. Certification is recommended.
Superb communication skills for both oral and written communication; ability to communicate confidently across all levels in the organization.
Strong ability to interpret and analyze data to support decision making.
Experience working with and influencing product development teams and driving them toward a common customer and business vision all the way through to delivery.
A results-oriented, proactive, and self-sufficient work ethic.