**Job Description**
The Product Owner is accountable for driving the success of his/her products across the customer journey and the land-adopt-expand-renew cycle. The Product Owner will assist the Product Manager in a disciplined approach to product strategy, road map, and requirements to deliver consistent revenue growth for his/her product portfolio.
**Responsibilities:**
\- Integrate into an agile development team to drive successful product delivery and serve as the voice of the customer
\- Collaborate with Product Managers to deliver on our product vision, strategy, and road map
\- Work closely with Product Engineering creating, reviewing, refining epics, features, stories and acceptance criteria to create and maintain a product backlog of maximum value that is aligned with product strategy
\- Manage multiple product line backlogs, balancing conflicting priorities to determine priorities.
\- Own the release planning and sprint planning processes, including setting release and sprint goals, and successfully delivering on those goals
\- Provide an active role in mitigating risks and issues impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals
\- Ensuring acceptance criteria are met with current release and conducting sprint reviews from a business/customer perspective.
\- Assist in the preparation and facilitation of detailed product demonstrations for external and internal audiences to communicate the benefits of the solution
\- Serving as a subject matter expert to assist with sales and support as needed
**Qualifications**
\- Minimum of 3 to 5 of experience in product management in a software company
\- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, technology or related field
\- Direct experience in a customer-facing role with demonstrated ability to gather complex customer requirements
\- Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex projects and initiatives from concept to delivery including defining and driving deliverables, and solving problems along the way
\- Experience with agile software development practices (e.g., scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile) and tools
\- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
\- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
\- A sound understanding of enterprise-scale technologies, including applications hosted on the cloud and software as a service (SaaS)
\- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
\- Proven success in product ownership or management roles
\- Experience with agile software development practices (e.g. scrum, Kanban, Lean Agile) and tools
\- Proven ability to negotiate a backlog with engineers and senior leadership
\- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
\- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
\- Ability to balance conflicting priorities and make critical decisions
**Preferred qualifications:**
\- Drive & Grit – Operate in a fast-paced environment with a focus and determination to achieve high-quality results
\- Strategic Thinker – determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends with the ability to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way
\- Product Focus – Translate market and customer feedback into requirements, driving product delivery through an agile release process
\- Customer Focused – passionate about creating value for our customers
\- Cross-functional leadership – Lead and drive execution across Development, Product Management, Support, and Customer Success
\- Certifications: Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, Project Management, Scrum Product Manager
\- Experience in partnering with UX teams to design great solutions
\- Experience with ERP reporting or business intelligence products