Product Owner

Acquia empowers the world's most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company in India, is listed as one of the world's top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it

At Acquia we are proud that our company's founder Dries Buytaert created Drupal and that we are one of the biggest contributors to this powerful open-source content management framework. Acquia's powerful portfolio has been lauded as one of the best DXPs in the world in both the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Acquia is seeking a Product Owner, Product Management with the experience and drive to ensure Acquia's award-winning platform, Drupal Cloud, exceeds the needs of customers who are passionate about Digital experiences. You have experience working in an enterprise organization and you have been exposed to digital experiences, ecommerce, infrastructure / hosting tools and services, saas or paas platforms.

**About the role**
As a Product Owner you will have a strong sense of empathy for the user; a high tolerance for ambiguity; the ability to navigate complex, interconnected systems; and demonstrate good instincts for judging as to priority and risk. You will oversee a coordinated, rigorous development approach and will be accountable for on-time product development delivery.

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborating with internal users to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
- Managing the teams' backlog to optimize execution of program priorities while maintaining the integrity of the services the teams own
- Developing user stories
- Monitoring and evaluating progress at each stage of the process
- Communicating priorities, timelines and status to R&D and stakeholder communities
- Participating in Scrum meetings and product increment sprints

**Skills**:

- In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
- Working knowledge of product development architecture
- Ability to prioritize effectively
- Uncompromising focus on excellence
- Biased towards action and practical solutions
- Technically proficient enough to earn the respect of a development team
- Excellent oral communication
- Ability to work with large, distributed, international teams

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner, preferably in delivering enterprise software products or solutions
- Extensive hands-on knowledge of modern development platforms, Cloud-based solutioning (AWS preferred)
- CSPO certification preferred
- Has navigated teams through adverse situations, either successfully or unsuccessfully
- Well versed in modern development techniques and automated testing strategies

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.