Product Owner

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**Your Impact**: Jacobs** has acquired **StreetLight Data**, a mobility analytics solution provider - marking the company’s second strategic acquisition in recent months and building on its strong foundation of existing technology and #data capabilities.

StreetLight Data, the pioneer in Big Data for mobility, is revolutionizing transportation and urban planning to help the world better deploy infrastructure and adapt to new forms of mobility. From legacy systems to ride sharing and bike sharing to autonomous vehicles, our platform powers 6,000+ mobility projects every month for government and private clients, and we are just getting started.

StreetLight Data is seeking a dedicated Product Owner to be the point person in one of our scrum team development pods. The product owner will be responsible for partnering with a US-based product manager to define the product vision and manage the product development process.

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Product, you will collaborate with our other product managers, engineering, marketing, and sales to plan, build, release and drive successful sales and adoption of both new and existing products.

strong plus.

Product Owner Responsibilities:

- Collaboratively synthesizes and presents plans to stakeholders
- Acts as the main point of contact between teams and stakeholders
- Acts as a servant leader to the scrum/product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint
- Defines the task level specifications driven by customer needs
- Ensures that the Product Backlog is prioritized, emergent, estimated, and transparent
- Flags financial, strategic, and performance risks
- Maps metrics dependencies, blockers, and product risks
- Ensures the product fits the Minimum Adoptable Product standard

As Product Owner, you will:

- Understand the StreetLight organization, business objectives and growth plans, product constituencies, and product management needs
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the transportation planning and operations industry through self-learning, support of our internal industry experts and proactive interaction with our sales team, prospects, and customers to support successfully developing product requirements that meet end customer needs
- Enable the development and commercialization of new data metrics for the transportation industry and their integration into our platform
- Translate company strategy, business objectives, system-architecture, and voice of the customer into clear, concrete product increments, epics, user stories, functional specifications, and other assets to ensure project alignment and transparency for collaborators, sponsors, and project contributors
- Gather, generate, and align objectives from business partners, designers, developers, project managers, and other functions within our business, guiding them into functional requirements
- Act as a representative for products throughout the development lifecycle to ensure outputs meet stakeholder needs, participating in and leading key agile meetings, and resolving scope and technical conflicts
- Communicate product status to all stakeholders, including executive leadership
- Communicate effectively across the organization to provide the appropriate level of transparency on upcoming Product plans, releases, & roadmaps to Executives, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and others with a need to know
- Have ownership of product requirements and roadmaps while contributing to business reviews, strategies, and collaboration between teams
- Work closely with strategy, product management, product owners and other business functions to evaluate the business, technical, and strategic projects
- Work with the Data Science and Data Engineering teams to scope, estimate, and plan the implementation of the product and coordinate its schedule with other deliverables
- Embed with and lead autonomous teams to deliver throughout product stages

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**Here’s What You’ll Need**:

- 5 or more years of product ownership experience in commercial software companies focused on big data, mobility, or navigation products and/or services that utilize machine learning in a quantitative field
- Experience in a SaaS product environment into the commercial/governmental market is a strong plus
- BS