$80,000 - $100,000 / year + Bonus
JOB DESCRIPTION
A senior product owner's main objective is to translate business problems and requirements into user stories that enable a development team to create the best solution to solve customer problems. A senior product owner at Vertafore owns their backlog and prioritizes it to align with product strategy, business goals, and achieve project goals and objectives. The senior product owner will provide clarity in complex projects, collaborating with internal, and at-times external stakeholders.
You'll work closely with Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved to create the best solution. As a Senior Product Owner you will also prioritize the development backlog and work with Product Managers to plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features or user stories are delivered you'll work closely with QA to ensure the problems are solved and requirements are met.
Core Requirements and Responsibilities:
Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:
- Translate business problems and requirements into prioritized backlog of user stories for the development teams to implement
- Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams, primarily internal and, at times external, to get the clarity needed to document user stories to appropriate level of detail
- Translate project goals/objectives/strategy to actionable work, prioritizing and sequencing the development work to achieve project goals and timelines
- Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met
- Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA
- When needed, work directly with customers, and conduct market research to clarify requirements and ensure solution will deliver value to end users
- Clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed
- Collaborate with product management, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment
- When applicable, lead other product owners to deliver on overall product roadmap
- Partner with product manager to consolidate market requirements, align to corporate objectives, and prioritize what is essential to define market strategy
- Partner with product manger to define product vision and roadmap
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications:
- 5+ years' professional experience, preferably working with B2B SaaS software
- Previous experience as a product owner for a B2B SaaS software company
- Real world experience working as part of an Agile software development team
- Experience working within a cross functional organization and understanding the needs of multiple teams
- Experience supporting customer needs and communicating
- Experience communicating effectively with multiple parties, including customers
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment within generally defined practices and select methods to obtain solutions
- Experience leading teams of product owners
- Experience managing internal stakeholders and aligning to deliver
- Experience prioritizing product delivery to align to market strategy, product vision, and corporate objectives
Additional Requirements and Details:
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Located and working from an office location.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
Qualifications Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you'd like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- Life, AD&D
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Pension Plan & Employer Match
- Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Education Assistance
- Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
- Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
- Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
- Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education & Legal Assistance
- Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Commuter Benefits (Denver)
