Senior Software Product Owner (Hybrid - US)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Product Owner to join our Information Systems team. This candidate will be responsible for leading product development and implementation of our key, critical software ecosystem, which consists of several interacting software platforms and multiple business unit stakeholders. You will bring deep product ownership experience, process improvement skills, a strong background implementing Agile principles in a hybrid planning environment, good technical acumen, and a team-oriented approach as you drive priorities and strategic direction for our software products. This unique position is perfect for individuals who have strong skills in translating complex technical ideas into simple business language and who can influence business and technology stakeholders in decision-making. This position will help to develop a team of product owners and business system analysts, implement and improve processes for software development, assist in defining standards for various artifacts, develop appropriate metrics for planning and monitoring execution, develop roadmaps for the ecosystem and its parts, and assist in resource forecasting.

This is a hybrid work opportunity. At ES, this means working onsite at one of our offices a minimum of 1 day / week (currently Wednesdays) with flexibility for the remainder of the days. ES has offices in Oakland, CA, Orange, CA, Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, and Boston, MA. At this time, we are not accepting applications from candidates residing in the following states : Delaware, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment of product opportunities and risks, including providing cost estimates
• Lead Agile process implementation and improvement in a hybrid planning environment
• Manage a complex backlog in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders, including building a standardized process for managing backlog and future work requests
• Lead product design : prepare well-documented functional specifications and workflows, guide product prototyping and proof of concepts
• Translate customer needs into actionable plans for engineering and design teams, owning features, end-to-end and prioritizing the product backlog to deliver maximum value
• Establish and maintain product roadmaps including platform health and customer initiatives
• Meet with business stakeholders to discuss application functionality related to enterprise-wide or specific program initiative due to contractual agreements
• Conduct or participate in meetings to identify requirements in how an application looks and feels to the end-user and provide feedback to clients to ensure technology application supports the internal / external customer needs
• Own and refine user stories and epics in Jira – helping to translate product requirements into work that is actionable by the development team
• Monitor progress of software development efforts to ensure business expectations for the product are being met and software engineering barriers are minimized
• Communicate status and results of product development efforts across the organization
• Lead efforts to define product metrics to optimize product effectiveness
• Coach other product owners and business systems analysts

Minimum Qualifications

Compensation

Compensation to commensurate with experience with the pay band of $107k - $140k / Annually

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