Job details
Salary $120,000 - $125,000 a year job type full-time number of hires for this role 3
Full job description
Product owner - technology (remote – us based)
A global fortune 250 organization that is the leading provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail is undergoing significant expansion and looking to add a product owner to support their flagship precision dispatch system (pds) product lineThe pds product line is an advanced software solution that provides real-time train dispatching functions that direct and control the movement of trains over a railroad network.
Job overview:
In this remote, u.sBased role, the product owner will be an integral part of a development team consisting of software developers and testers, working very closely with a project manager, technical director, test manager, and other product owners supporting a key client and project.
The product owner will provide the team with a clear and descriptive set of requirements captured as agile features and/or user stories and partner with the team to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects, and technical debt.
The product owner will be the product owner for at least one development team; owning the scope definition (features/user stories & defects), elaboration and prioritization.
Essential responsibilities include:
Own and manage a development team backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready
Contribute and influence the overall project backlog of requirements
Interactions with customer, product manager, and lead product owner to elaborate requirements into actionable features and user stories
Elaborate requirements into features and user stories, including strong acceptance criteria and requirement traceability
Reviews features and user stories with customer, product manager, and lead product owner to ensure they meet customer and product needs
Engage frequently with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions
Triage incoming customer reported problems, quickly determine if the expected behavior is not met, and define severity and priorityActively look to reduce the investigation load from the team by performing the initial investigations until the reported system behavior is understood.
Understand security and compliance requirements; establish seamless integration with cyber security and compliance teams
Use software industry standard tools to plan and track features and user stories such as rally or similar.
Organize and facilitate continuous backlog grooming of development team features/stories
Organize and facilitate development team sprint demo’s
Provides status on development team progress against sprint plan
Lead efforts to drive resolution of production issues across support and engineering teams
Participate in po syncs
Participate in change control board meetings
Leads sprint planning meetings
Basic qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or in “stem” majors (science, technology, engineering and math)
A minimum of 14 years of professional experience in software industry
A minimum of 7 years experience as product owner or similar role.
Desired characteristics:
Provide mentoring and guidance to other product owners in positive and constructive methods
Work under minimal supervision
Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
Familiar with native cloud products and technology such as: micro services, kubernetes, aws, azure, quarkus, containers
Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product
This position can work remote anywhere in the u.s(must be based in the united states) and comes with an exceptional compensation package including a base salary up to $120,000, 15% annual bonus, comprehensive benefits that begin on day one, and an unlimited pto policy.
Job type: full-time
Pay: $120,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Professional development assistance
Referral program
Retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance
Schedule:
Monday to friday
Supplemental pay:
Bonus pay
Work location:
Fully remote
Work location: remote
