GIS Product Owner
GIS Product Owner
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14-07-2025
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Job Summary:
The GIS Product Owner will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog for GIS web and mobile applications. They will translate business goals into user stories serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders and drive roadmap planning in Agile/Scrum environments. This role requires a blend of product leadership business analysis and geospatial development expertise with a focus on delivering scalable cloud-native GIS solutions.
The GIS Product Owner will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog for GIS web and mobile applications. They will translate business goals into user stories serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders and drive roadmap planning in Agile/Scrum environments. This role requires a blend of product leadership business analysis and geospatial development expertise with a focus on delivering scalable cloud-native GIS solutions.
Location: Houston Texas United States
Responsibilities:
- Define prioritize and own the product backlog for GIS web and mobile applications.
- Translate business goals into clear actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders balancing technical feasibility with business value.
- Drive roadmap planning and release cycles in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Define and measure KPIs to evaluate product success and user adoption.
- Collaborate with operations analytics and field teams to understand use cases and pain points.
- Document requirements through user interviews workflows and system analysis.
- Present complex GIS concepts in a clear business-friendly way.
- Facilitate workshops and sprint demos to align stakeholders on goals and progress.
- Partner with GIS engineers to develop and support applications.
- Ensure modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines IaC (Terraform CloudFormation) and containerized services (Docker Kubernetes) are understood and supported from a product perspective.
- Define prioritize and own the product backlog for GIS web and mobile applications.
- Translate business goals into clear actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders balancing technical feasibility with business value.
- Drive roadmap planning and release cycles in Agile/Scrum environments.
- Define and measure KPIs to evaluate product success and user adoption.
- Collaborate with operations analytics and field teams to understand use cases and pain points.
- Document requirements through user interviews workflows and system analysis.
- Present complex GIS concepts in a clear business-friendly way.
- Facilitate workshops and sprint demos to align stakeholders on goals and progress.
- Partner with GIS engineers to develop and support applications.
- Ensure modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines IaC (Terraform CloudFormation) and containerized services (Docker Kubernetes) are understood and supported from a product perspective.
Required Skills & Certifications:
- 5 years in a GIS product management or business analyst role.
- Hands-on experience with ArcGIS technology especially web app development using the ArcGIS JavaScript API.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with cloud-native applications or microservices architecture.
- 5 years in a GIS product management or business analyst role.
- Hands-on experience with ArcGIS technology especially web app development using the ArcGIS JavaScript API.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with cloud-native applications or microservices architecture.
Preferred Skills & Certifications:
- Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise/Online administration.
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React Angular).
- Working knowledge of spatial databases (e.g. PostGIS SQL Server Spatial).
- Familiarity with geospatial libraries like Mapbox GL JS .
- Product Owner certification (e.g. CSPO SAFe PO/PM).
- Experience with ArcGIS Enterprise/Online administration.
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React Angular).
- Working knowledge of spatial databases (e.g. PostGIS SQL Server Spatial).
- Familiarity with geospatial libraries like Mapbox GL JS .
- Product Owner certification (e.g. CSPO SAFe PO/PM).
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