Product Owner

Technical Product Owner

Minneapolis MN
Contract

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Technical Business System Analyst
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading and developing enterprise software solutions in close collaboration with Product Owners and Engineering teams
• Minimum 3 years of experience in leading API design and development
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing system integrations
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Strong ability to participate in System Design and Development with Engineering teams
• Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
• Strong problem solving and conflicted solution abilities
• Outstanding organizational and multitasking skills
• Degree in Computer Science Business or a related field
• Familiarity with software development practices and lifecycle
• Experience in a product company or startup preferred
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with data analytics tools Power BI Tableau
• Understanding of integration methods API batch and interface design

Responsibilities

• Manage each projects scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints retrospective meetings and daily standups
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications eg from customers or stakeholders
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members own the product and enjoy working on it
• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products
• Collaborate with Digital Business partners and Vendors to codevelop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
• Work with cross functional teams and various stakeholders including analytics design user experience engineering and user enablement
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs refines priorities outlines milestones and deliverables and identifies opportunities and risks
• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision strategy features and prioritization
• Partner with Business to develop own and execute product roadmap
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features user stories and acceptance test criteria
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
• Define and execute go to market plan working to ensure that product management marketing and sales have what they need to be successful
• Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post launch to evaluate future investment