Product Owner

Since the year 2000, OEC has grown globally to more than 1,000 employees with a double-digit revenue increase nearly every year.  We provide a lively culture, employee rewards and recognition, and the opportunity to develop and implement innovative technology solutions. 

Job Summary/Objective

Involved through the entire software product lifecycle, plays a central role in executing the product roadmap and bringing the product vision to market. Acts as the voice of the customer and represents the business stakeholders while working daily with engineering teams to help scope, structure, refine, and execute product deliverables.

Key Responsibilities & Duties (essential to the job)

1.Maintains a well-groomed product backlog that will support assigned scrum teams and guide development efforts through the product life cycle.

2.Achieves the objectives of the product vision by prioritizing needs, anticipating customer requests, and evaluating product progress.

3.Translates and deconstructs product roadmap initiatives into smaller, clearly-defined feature sets and collaborates with Product Managers to prioritize various feature sets into releasable products.

4.Produces clear and effective user stories with clearly-defined acceptance criteria to create and prioritize Product Features.

5.Proactively collects feedback from users, customers, and dealers for direction in future enhancements.

6.Documents process workflows to clearly articulate product requirements.

7.Partners with UI / UX team to develop wireframes and UI / UX design.

8.Partners with Tech Leads in scrum meetings and reviews.

9.Advises customer-facing teams of new product releases and ensures that documentation is accurate and reflected in internal and external stakeholder documentation (such as Customer Release Notes).

10.Assists with the launch planning process to develop respective documentation, communication, and knowledge transfers for internal and external stakeholders.

11.Partners closely to review, triage, and provide input into client tickets to aligned products.

12.Develops well thought out success criteria for product and feature releases.

13.Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch against the success criteria.

Education

An undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university with a focus in Business, Marketing, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline.In the absence of a degree, directly related job experience in product support, product management and/or product development is required.

Experience, Skills and Key Competencies

Essential:

·Minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience in a product role for a SaaS company

·Demonstrated ability to interface with key customers

·Strong written and verbal communication skills

·Strong analytical, critical thinking, business acumen, and presentation abilities

·A proven track record of developing and nurturing relationships, handling multiple priorities, and doing high collaboration across teams of moderate to complex projects

·Knowledge of Microsoft Office products, especially Excel

·Able to articulate the “why” to the engineering team and, together with engineering leadership, fosters a sense of empowerment and innovation to achieve the goal

·Self-starter with the ability to identify and act on opportunities for improvement in process or products

Special Position Requirements

·Travel for this position is approximately 10% of the time, or possibly 1 to 2 days each month.

Product Owner

Job Description - Addendums

ADDENDUMS BY ASSIGNED LOCATION

United States:

FLSA Classification:Exempt

Work Environment:

Physical Activity:	Frequency:
Standing	Rare ( < 10% of the workday)
Walking	Rare ( < 10% of the workday)
Sitting	Frequent (31% to 65% of the workday)
Talking and/or listening	Constant ( > 66% of the workday)
Twisting of wrist / arm	Frequent (31% to 65% of the workday)

Disclaimer:This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties, responsibilities or qualifications required of the employee.Other duties and responsibilities may change or be assigned at any time due to business needs or other reasons.OEC or the employee has the right to terminate employment at any time for any reason; employment is at will.

India:

Disclaimer:This job description serves to illustrate the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. Employee will be expected to perform other job related tasks requested by management and as necessitated by the development of this role and the development of the business.

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