Agile Product Owner
Job Category: Product Management
Requisition Number: AGILE015993
Schedule: Full Time
SoftWriters - HQ
Pittsburgh, PA 15237, USA
Overview:
The Agile Product Owner role at SoftWriters is responsible for defining and delivering a compelling product roadmap that offers high-value healthcare technology solutions for an underserved niche market. The successful candidate is passionate about building innovative products that drive impact, with a laser focus on rapidly changing customer needs and the market landscape. This person thrives in an agile product development environment, manages competing priorities simultaneously, embraces complex problem-solving and best practices adoption with a growth mindset, and believes in cross-functional teamwork to deliver exceptional results and value. This person will be part of a high-performing and talented product management team, working closely with engineering, design, customer success, sales, and marketing. As one of the key leaders in product development, you will work with the Product Managers, where you will represent the voice of the customer and the vision of the products throughout the product development life cycle.
Responsibilities:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
The objective is to bring greater value to the market
Participate as a working team member on a Scrum Team (s) ensuring that you are readily available to address questions from the team members; removing barriers in a timely manner and escalating blockers immediately to executive leadership for resolution
You are responsible for working with customers and key stakeholders from across the company to bring a voice and story to the customer feature requests, new product development, and technical features
Holding the ultimate accountability for the product strategy that best meets the needs of our customers and our business, you will bring your strong leadership and organizational skills to maintain a steady release plan for the product
Recognizing the limitations of resources and time you will be responsible for negotiating trade-offs at the appropriate interval during each development sprint
You will order and manage the backlog of user stories and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable for the development teams
An ability to advocate for and manage the value of the product line release at the executive level
Work with Product Managers, key technical team members, and other cross-functional groups to identify stories to be added to the backlog
Maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories and product defects based on business value at the product line level
Communicate and advocate the product line vision
Lead and communicate the release plan for the product
Engage with development to commit backlog items to sprint deliverables (negotiate on what gets put in each iteration)
Clearly make tradeoffs between sustaining items and new value in the marketplace
Work with development teams to address questions/concerns during the sprint
Work with Product Management to understand and validate customer needs
Work with the product manager to lead customer validation sessions
Identify opportunities across product lines and lead efforts with other POs to bring business value across multiple products
The objective is to bring greater value to the market
Work with Marketing and Product Managers to identify and communicate value propositions for features and functionality
Communicate and educate internal team members on how the product features and functions fit into the product portfolio
Advocate for features across shared teams
Make trade-off decisions in coordination with other product teams to support responsibilities across shared teams
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technology-related field
Five (5) or more years of software product management experience
Two (2) or more years of Agile-Scrum development experience, serving as a Product Owner or Scrum Master
Prior experience with both on-prem, hosted, and cloud-native applications (Microsoft Windows/web/mobile with databases and cloud infrastructure)
Prior experience directly working with customers to successfully deliver product features for enterprise software solutions and SaaS products
Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to research, quickly understand and synthesize complex, often technical problems and then articulate them into simple and clearly understood requirements
Demonstrate proactive leadership
Ability to present complex ideas concisely
Experience decomposing customer and internal systems specifications into software requirement specifications or working software
Experience acting as technical liaison with end-user clients during the development process
Proven track record of building relationships and influencing important clients and internal stakeholders, setting and managing expectations, and creating consensus across diverse groups
Self-motivated with the capacity to work under pressure and deliver high-caliber products under tight deadlines
Exceptional interviewing, probing, and influencing skills
Flexibility to travel for onsite meetings with clients/partners, as needed
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technology-related field
Product Owner Scrum Certification (Scrum.org or Scrum Inc.); Scrum Master Certification
Excellent understanding of software design patterns and architecture paradigms
Experience in managing/creating web and mobile app (Android and iOS) products
Good understanding of web service architecture, web technology stacks
Knowledge of pharmacy management or similar healthcare technology solutions
Knowledge of Jira, Aha, and Azure DevOps helpful
Qualifications
Behaviors
Preferred
Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
Detail-Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
Thought Provoking: Capable of making others think deeply on a subject
Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Preferred
Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
Financial: Inspired to perform well by monetary reimbursement
Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
Job Security: Inspired to perform well by the knowledge that your job is safe
Work-Life Balance: Inspired to perform well by having ample time to pursue work and interests outside of work
Peer Recognition: Inspired to perform well by the praise of coworkers
Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
SoftWriters, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, religion, gender, national origin or citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
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