Lead Business Technology Product Owner

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Summary:

In this role, you will determine and oversee delivery of the strategy and roadmap for products to achieve business outcomes and financial objectives. You will be the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer value and impact. You will represent business needs and priorities, prioritize and manage product backlog, and guide continuous product improvement. You will coordinate with business, IT, and financial stakeholders to set priorities, manage new development and operations, and provide direction and oversight to product teams

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities, capabilities, and improvement recommendations.
• Understand business and end-user needs; identify and prioritize features to be delivered to meet those needs.
• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.
• Lead product strategy, planning, and life cycle management efforts.
• Establish product roadmaps and release plans that satisfy requirements and achieve business outcomes.
• Continuously monitor and evaluate product performance and proactively champion value-based product improvements, including analyzing data, conducting A/B testing, and implementing iterative changes to enhance product performance and user satisfaction.
• Develop strong relationships and regularly communicate with product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and surface and prioritize needs.
• Set expectations with business stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Act as the voice of the customer to guide all stages of software development, including user story development, sprint planning, and prioritization of the product backlog.
• Guide the product engineering team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying established delivery methodologies (e.g., agile methods) and best practices (e.g., reusability).
• Proactively identify and resolve blockers to achieve business objectives for the product, including technical and resourcing challenges.
• Participate in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, story refinements, and team retrospectives; ensure the team has a clear understanding of priorities and next steps.
• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog.
• Work with the development team to create acceptance criteria and definitions of failures and done.
• Assist the team on the development of feature tests, test cases, and regression tests.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to ensure an exceptional user experience.
• Analyze feedback from sprint reviews, end user feedback and operational metrics to identify and understand product needs.
• Lead product launch process, coordinating with business functional teams to enable successful product adoption, create product messaging, train internal teams, and monitor post-launch product performance and customer feedback.
• Increase adoption and consumption of product capabilities.
• Ensure alignment and adherence to corporate, financial and IT standards.
• Establish and track all costs associated with products.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree in business or technology is a plus.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience as a technology product owner is required.
• Expertise in product business domain such as finance, accounting, and human resources.
• Understanding of complex business problems, and experience identifying and interpreting business needs is required.
• Advanced knowledge of agile development methodologies required.
• Skills with facilitation and influencing others with diverse perspectives and priorities to drive decision-making required.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing required.
• Relationship-building and collaboration skills across diverse and matrixed stakeholders and customers required.
• Experience surfacing, prioritizing, and balancing multiple stakeholder priorities required.
• Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously required.

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This position is also incentive eligible.

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