Key Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen
• Ability to verify U.S. employment eligibility using Form I-9
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance and Common Access Card
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a technology related field. Equivalent work experience may be substituted for education.
• Minimum 5+ yearsexperienceworking as a BA or PO for a software organization, preferably in software development.
• Ability to travel 2-4 weeks per year

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the levels of knowledge, skill, and/or ability necessary to perform the job at acceptable standards.

• Communicate excellently with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the organization.
• Ability to envision, gather requirements, document, and clearly communicate end-to-end solutions.
• Skilled in creating process flows and swim lane diagrams.
• Ability toforge relationships with various business and technical team members and managers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong senseof ownership and accountability to deliver planned results
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to thrive and make decisions in a dynamic, fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to analyze and document complex business processes.
• Knowledge of SDLC processes and methodology including Agile and Scrum techniques
• Aptitude to understand business impact and business value of technical solutions.
• Experience with projects involving APIs and EDIs is strong advantage
• Experience working with Department of Defense is a plus.
• Experience and knowledge of HMMS is a plus
• Knowledge of Environmental and/or Logistics Processes is a plus.
• Experience working with DevOps is a plus
• SQL skills is a plus

Product Summary:

• The HMMS Suite of products is used to perform cradle to grave tracking on hazardous material inventory and hazardous waste management.

Major Duties:

• Work with key project stakeholders and the customer to understand the overall business vision for a project and translate that into actionable objectives.
• Provide a communication conduit between the business and technical community by interpreting and translating business needs into technical requirements.
• Comprehend and document requirements from multiple stakeholders and conceptualize solutions.
• Develop deep understanding of current systems and processes and analyze impact of changes as new solutions are introduced to the environment.
• Collaboratedirectly with internal management, sales, QA, and development teams.
• Collaborate with other product owners to manage inter-dependencies across the product suite.
• Assist in developing and validating test plans.
• Develop and provide product presentations and/or training to existing customer, and potential customers.
• Manage the product or project throughout its lifecycle from concept to end-of-life.
• Collect, manage, and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships in key clients (if B2B)
• Lead the virtual product team to ensure delivery of agreed objectives

Specific Job Duties:

• Actively work directly with the development team
  • Serve as the customer representative in all team meetings
  • Develop personas and related product capabilities
  • Write Epics, Features and User Stories
  • Design preliminary mock-ups and work closely with the team UX Designer
  • Lead Grooming and Story Pointing Sessions
  • Participate in product planning and forecasts with the product management team
  • Attend daily stand-ups and other status meetings
  • Maintain and report product status such as burn up/burn down and velocity charts
  • Participate in sprint retrospectives with the agile team
  • Maintain a release backlog and focus on product deliverables
• Actively engage with product team and management
  • Take direction from management on roadmap priorities
  • Provide status updates and report any blockers or concerns
  • Prepare and present project status slides
  • Collaborate with other product team members and customer care unit
  • Participate in daily production support calls
  • Help to troubleshoot and triage production related tickets
• Other duties as assigned

Client Services Capabilities:

• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to learn client specific processes, terminology, systems, and unique requirements by various business groups.
• Sense of urgency due to cross functional and fast-moving nature of operations, Big picture thinking, prioritization (comfortable with multi-tasking)
• Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally, with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Working Conditions:

Work is generally performed inside an office environment or remotely.

Training:

The individual may be required to complete training courses identified by Sphera and/or the government site as essential to job performance and may include (but not limited to) the following:

• HMMS Suite Training
• Sphera Corporation Training
• Government Required Training

Pay:

$99,000.00 - $157,000.00 + Eligible for Variable Compensation Plan

Commensurate with relevant qualifications and experience

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Account

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match

• Life and Disability Insurance

• Critical Illness Insurance

• Accident Insurance

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• Paid Time Off and Holidays

• Flexible Working Schedule