Lead Business Technology Product Owner - Corp. Business Systems

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Summary:

In this role, you will determine and oversee delivery of the strategy and roadmap for their products to achieve business outcomes and financial objectives. You will serve as the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer value and impact. You will represent business needs and priorities, manage product backlog, and guide continuous product improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with business, IT, and financial stakeholders to set priorities, manage new development and operations, and provide direction and oversight to product teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities, capabilities, and improvement recommendations.
• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.
• Establish product roadmaps and release plans that satisfy requirements and achieve business outcomes.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate product performance and proactively champion value-based product improvements, including analyzing data, conducting A/B testing, and implementing iterative changes to enhance product performance and user satisfaction.
• Develop strong relationships and regularly communicate with product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and surface and prioritize needs.
• Set expectations with business stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Guide the product engineering team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying established delivery methodologies (e.g., agile methods) and best practices (e.g., reusability).
• Proactively identify and resolve blockers to achieve business objectives for the product, including technical and resourcing challenges.
• Work with the development team to create acceptance criteria and definitions of failures and done.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers, including conducting user research, usability testing, and providing design feedback to create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces.
• Analyze feedback from sprint reviews, and other data such as end user feedback and operational metrics, to identify and understand product needs.
• Lead product launch process, coordinating with business functional teams to enable successful product adoption. This involves creating product messaging, training internal teams, and monitoring product performance and customer feedback post-launch.
• Establishes and tracks all costs associated with products.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 7 or more years of relevant work experience in a product owner or manager role.
• Product owner certification (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner Certification) a plus.
• Expertise in product business domain (e.g., finance, accounting, human resources).
• Ability to understand complex business problems and identify and interpret business needs.
• Advanced knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated facilitation and influencing skills to drive decision making among stakeholders with diverse perspectives and priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Relationship building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.
• Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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