Job description
This position requires the candidate to be available to work in-person in our Atlanta office. We come in 3 days per week, but support flexibility as needed.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not currently able to sponsor work visas.
High-Fiver Wanted : Product Owner
Are you the type of person who always goes the extra mile? Are you passionate about your craft and always striving to improve?
Do you get so excited when a customer loves one of your features that you high-five the person next to you? If so, you are exactly who we are looking for.
We are looking for a talented, dedicated Product Owner to join our high-five team and take part in the continued growth of our dynamic young company.
About Us
We are a rapidly growing technology start-up based in Atlanta. Our solution is now being used at over 600 car wash locations across the country by over 1 million end users.
Our platform includes mobile and tablet apps, kiosks, web apps, and analytics. We are technology agnostic, Agile-based, and leverage modern frameworks and cloud infrastructure such as React, React Native, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, NodeJS, .NET, and more.
Why work for us?
We have one of the most supportive and sustainable cultures anywhere. Our team of lifelong learners has a thirst for knowledge and passion for technology and software.
We're dedicated to building world-class solutions for our customers, and at the same time place a high value on team rewards and personal career growth.
We enjoy working together to solve challenging problems, teaching each other through lunch-and-learns, and celebrating victories (even the small ones) along the way.
Benefits you deserve :
- Highly competitive salaries
- Potential equity interest in a rapidly growing company
- Generous PTO policy and holiday schedule
- 401K plan with company matching
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
But wait, there's more!
- Located at Atlanta Tech Village, the 4th largest tech space in the US
- World-class engineering team with an incredible track record
- Kickass development stack and hybrid cloud architecture
- Team-building events, outings, and hackathons
- State-of-the-art workspace and hardware
- Strong focus on community service and volunteering
- Free gym, snacks, drinks, and beer / soda
What are we looking for?
You will be responsible for bringing our ideas to life!
Here's what that entails :
General Product Strategy and UX Leadership
- Work with leadership team to continuously update high level product strategy
- Understand customer pain points, gaps and opportunities
- Have awareness of competitor offerings to help us stand out and win in the market
- Analyze adoption and performance of deployed features
- Maintain a living product roadmap that will reflect our broad product strategy while being detailed enough to scope out future sprints
Feature Design and Specifications :
- Create wireframes / mock-ups of screen flows and review with product leadership team
- Collaborate with graphic designers to develop high fidelity specs
- Write user stories with detailed developer specs, acceptance criteria, and testing requirements
- Work with head of development to finalize user stories before assignment
- Answer questions from developers and QA about specs and update as needed
Development Sprint Scoping and Support :
- Work with leadership team to prioritize features into upcoming sprints
- Walk through sprint plan with DevOps, QA, and developers
- Review features as they are being worked on and provide hardening lists
- Provide an overview of new features to sales / marketing and customer success
- Write release notes for existing customers
What we expect you to have :
- Proven experience in a product owner and / or product owner role on a customer facing app
- Extreme passion for product design and development fundamentals, such as :
- Customer discovery
- Adoption analytics
- Feature roadmaps
- App design
- Wireframing
- Understanding business objectives and aligning with feature design
- Software development lifecycle
- Strong logic skills, attention to detail, and proven ability to manage through adversity and change
- Ability to step back and think strategically
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Experience working with and balancing the demands of multiple stakeholders
Bonus points and street cred for the following :
- Bachelor's degree, preferred in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or Design
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications
- Development background
- Good eye for design and familiarity with graphic design tools (e.g., Figma)
- Experience working on projects that leverage the following :
- Azure DevOps
- Data visualization tools
- Cloud hosted solutions