Product Owner

With over 120 offices and nearly 7,000 associates in major metropolitan areas and suburban cities throughout the U.S. CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) delivers top-level financial and employee business services to organizations of all sizes, as well as individual clients, by providing national-caliber expertise combined with highly personalized service delivered at the local level.

CBIZ has been honored to be the recipient of several national recognitions for 2023:

• Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation
• Top Workplaces USA
• Best Places to Work in Insurance
• Best and Brightest Companies in Wellness
• Great Place to Work Certification

Job Purpose/Primary Objective: Oversee the development of products from start to finish while ensuring stakeholders' needs and preferences are met.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate those into product requirements.
• Understand and communicate the product vision and objectives.
• Act as an extended member of the Product Management Team in overseeing a NaaS.
• Coordinate with other teams to align with organizational priorities.
• Prioritize requirements of team members and stakeholders.
• Team up with other Product Owners to adopt best practices.
• Partner with the Scrum Master to assist the team in continuously moving forward by improving upon deliverables, processes, and tools that add overall value to the organization.
• Support budget planning and financial forecasting.
• Communicate outcomes of the different iterations of technical implementations.
• Facilitate conversations regarding organizational value, context, risks, efforts, and timelines.
• Guide story and feature creation by leveraging key metrics as a guide for impactful, realistic planning.
• Conduct regular sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to continuously improve team performance and quality of deliverables.
• Prioritize backlog items.
• Support the future road map and architectural guidance.
• Understand and capture iterations of technical implementations.

Requirements:

• Teamwork/collaboration mindset with the ability to work with stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Detail orientation with strong analytical responsibilities.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Always provide excellent customer service.
• Adapt to shifting priorities in an ever-changing work environment.
• Think critically in seeking solutions.
• Handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Perform other administrative duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of product management experience or a bachelor's degree and equivalent industry experience.
• Familiarity with Jira and AHA!
• Prior agile product management experience preferred.
• SAFe certification preferred.