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Job Location drjobs

Folsom, CA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 75000 - 137500

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Overview

At PowerSchool we are a dedicated team of innovators guided by our shared purpose of powering personalized education for students around the world. From the central office to the classroom to the home PowerSchool supports the entire educational ecosystem as the global leader of cloudbased software for K12 education. Our employees make it all possible and a career with us means youre joining a successful team committed to engaging empowering and improving the K12 education experience everywhere.

Team Overview

Our Product team leads the direction coordination output quality and enhancements to PowerSchools product portfolio. This dynamic multifunctional team ensures the effective rollout of new products across the platform packages and positions products to appeal to consumers and helps set the future direction and pace of innovation in our organization.

Responsibilities

Description

The Product Management team is critical in full lifecycle product planning delivery and marketing with the end user in mind. This position will work closely with the Lead Product Manager to define and write product features to be implemented by the Scrum Team. You are responsible to assist in the definition of highvalue extensions and enhancements to PowerSchools Administration product portfolio. This position will follow the Agile development process to define the scope of work for the Scrum team by creating user stories developing acceptance criteria and refining the product backlog. Working with product management and subject matter experts you will apply incremental delivery principles to working practices driving the delivery of value through your teams; communicating progress eliciting feedback and enabling stakeholder reviews for validation in the process. This position will also use their skills to advance the progress of the Agile maturity model and provide timely reporting to Senior Management to ensure corporate objectives are being met.

Your daytoday job will consist of:

  • Improving organizations performance on delivering products by managing the cross functional development scope with Product Managers Product Owners and Scrum teams.
  • Supporting the product manager in the development of product vision goals themes and features. This translates into a product roadmap and longterm product strategy and feature development
  • Participating and helping lead daily scrum ceremonies leading refinement sessions and engaging with your Engineering team guiding direction and focus
  • Translating product directives into backlog items effectively representing customer needs. Serve as the primary source of external information for the Scrum teams offering clear definitions of the targeted capability the intended value to the customer and functional/nonfunctional requirements framing the scope of the capability independent of implementation.
  • Working closely with Development on implementation issues
  • Reviewing QA test plans to align with acceptance criteria
  • Reviewing relevant documentation for technical accuracy
  • Effectively communicating product release contents and expected product capabilities/behavior to stakeholders including external and internal customers
  • Coordinating products between departments for global visibility
  • Communicating the product vision to the technical teams as well as to other teams within the company
  • Ensuring the correct features are being development considering the value being delivered against the cost of delivery
  • Providing weekly reports on project status to Senior Management
  • Monitoring and identify impediments to release objective and suggest corrective actions as necessary
  • All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5 years prior experience in a product owner product manager or senior business analyst role
  • Excellent understanding of Agile Values and Scrum Methodology
  • Excellent ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a highpressure environment
  • Excellent ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources including upper management clients and other departments
  • Excellent ability to handle a heavy workload with multiple projects and frequent interruptions
  • Excellent ability to work in a changing dynamic environment
  • Excellent understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Strong attention to accuracy and detail while still results oriented
  • Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodology practices
  • Strong problem solving conflict resolution interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Experience with business analysis documenting use cases or requirements gathering

Compensation & Benefits


Compensation & Benefits



PowerSchool offers the following benefits:



  • Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical Dental Vision Pharmacy benefits Life Insurance and AD&D)

  • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts

  • ShortTerm Disability and LongTerm Disability

  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan

  • Generous Parental Leave

  • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off DTO)

  • Wellness Program including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program

  • Tuition Reimbursement

  • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance Identity Theft Protection Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage



A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $75000 $137500 USD. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicants skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures degrees and certifications; specific geographic location; internal equity; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.


EEO Commitment

EEO Commitment

PowerSchool celebrates a diverse and inclusive workplace. PowerSchool is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers PowerSchoolers to deliver the best results for our customers. We not only celebrate the diversity of our workforce we celebrate the diverse ways we work. If you have a disability and need an accommodation regarding our recruiting process please let us know by emailing


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