Product Owner

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
This Product Owner role serves as a key member of our software product development team. This person is responsible for taking full ownership of their value stream. To empower this ownership, they are given full autonomy to drive the maximum value stream benefits. Successful Product Owners prioritize requests from both internal and external customers that contribute the highest business value and strategic alignment.

**The duties include but are not limited to**:

- Serve as liaison between business teams and development teams.
- Transition the product vision into an actionable backlog
- Advocate for the customers’ needs in front of the development team.
- Collaboration with Product teams to build business requirements and non-functional requirements
- Collaborate with and motivate a cross-functional team of designers, developers, testers and others to develop, execute, and release in alignment with product roadmaps.
- Translate internal and external customer requirements into small value add user stories consumed by the development team
- Generate feature acceptance criteria with develop team and testers
- Manage, prioritize, and assess the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, non-functional requirements through the product backlog
- Assist with functional testing, including reviewing and accepting or declining output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
- Support customers across global time zones

**Required Qualifications**:

- 2+ years effectively leading as a product owner or equivalent experience
- Technical aptitude to partner with development teams.
- Ability to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business from an accredited university or equivalent degree/experience

**Preferred Qualifications**:
Master’s degree in engineering or business from an accredited university or equivalent degree/experience
Product owner certification (CSPO)
Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe)

**Preferred Experience**:
Experience in planning and executing a multi-quarter release plan
Proficient in JIRA (Atlassian) or other automated product tools

**Soft Skills**:
Strong leadership ability
Strong business acumen and affinity for using data to drive decisions.
Strong empathy for users, business partners, and stakeholders.
Excellent communication skills to adapt to the unique needs of different audiences.
Strong problem-solving skills
Detail oriented with a strong focus on quality.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company comprised of Professional Instrumentation and Industrial Technologies businesses that are recognized leaders in attractive markets. With 2017 revenues of $6.7 billion, Fortive’s well-known brands hold leading positions in field instrumentation, transportation, sensing, product realization, automation and specialty, and franchise distribution.

Industrial Scientific Overview

The people at Industrial Scientific are committed to ending death on the job by the year 2050, and we need more help. We hire smart, motivated people, give them world-class tools in a supportive environment, and we let them do their job. Our team is highly engaged, creates quality solutions, and delivers outstanding customer service. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness, and high performance; fostering candor; and treating people fairly and with dignity.