Software Product Owner

• Break down requirements into the form of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a prioritized, ready-to-work backlog with an appropriate mix of new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure that Features are ready for work by the development team and assist in roadmap development by sizing the prioritized work with the development team.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams to replicate, understand, and prioritize resolution of customer issues
• Gather voice of customer (VoC) from stakeholders to maximize value of product vision; represents the customers wants and needs; organize those opportunities into practical and digestible features
• Communicate and manage relationships with stakeholders; clearly understand and express product backlog items
• Able to research, understand, and summarize technical documentation for various APIs, SDKs, and integration points to help facilitate architecture and technical design with engineering stakeholders
• Prioritize the items to be considered for inclusion in each sprint / increment in the product backlog to best achieve goals and missions; optimize the value of the work the development team performs (making decisions on competing priorities); partner with Design and Development teams to rank business features, security, technical, performance and design-specific backlog items, accordingly

• Under the advisement and partnering with the relevant development and design roles, carry the following responsibilities into managing the product backlog, including:
  • Determining design requirements/acceptance criteria for each item
  • Determining release schedule and what items are to be included in each release

• Support the development team in preparing for and undertaking PI Planning and throughout the delivery of planned work, working alongside the Scrum Master.

• Work cross-functionally to gather requirements and internal alignment of features, including tracking dependencies across teams and products to ensure successful integration.
• Work with scrum team during execution of features to answer questions, define requirements, perform user acceptance, etc.
• Partnering with the Quality Assurance Manager, coordinate with the other relevant product owners and design and development team members when features cross portfolios
• Manage the relevant prioritized product features in a common format, approach and tool
• Assist in developing and maintaining appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate feature effectiveness and future investment.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field; or 8+ years of relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience as a software product owner in an agile environment, product management or other related role
• Ability or experience translating business requirements into software development requirements, partnering with software development, and delivering software products using Agile methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with diverse range of internal and external customers: customers, sales consultants, engineering, marketing, finance, executive leaderships, etc.
• Proven ability to translate complex customer and channel needs into thoughtful, well-organized business initiatives and portfolio roadmaps
• Proven strategic planning ability, project management skills, and track record of supporting profitable business growth
• Proven track record of enabling teams to deliver customer value based on business objectives.
• Knowledge of, or desire to learn about, IoT devices, SDK, microservices, pub/sub messaging, event-driven architecture and Microsoft Azure
• Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with Engineering, UI/UX, Product Management, leadership, and internal/external stakeholders.

• Ability to travel up to 10%

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Experience with software implementation, product owner or business analyst in an agile environment
• Experience translating business requirements into software development requirements, partnering with software development, and delivering software products using Agile methodology.
• Experience with software/hardware integrations