Senior Product Owner

The Product Owner is responsible for identifying and managing product requirements, prioritizing engineering team’s work on features and bugs, and supporting feature launch and rollout processes.
He/she holds the vision that will be executed by the agile team. The Product Owner is also responsible for understanding and developing fleshed-out features with product management, working with the engineering team during grooming sessions to translate those features into user stories, and validating the feature before release. He/she has the ability to shape the future of our products through his/her insights, analysis and ability to communicate and realize a vision.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for one or more of our development Agile teams

• Create, maintain, prioritize and sequence the team backlog according to business value and existing commitments

• Work with the Product and User Experience teams to provide detailed guidance and prioritization during the product development process in an Agile environment

• Assist with the elaboration of Epics, and Features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint

• Assist the product, engineering, and Scrum team during regular ceremonies: feature review, grooming, sprint plans and demos by being the voice of the customer and communicating the value behind each product and prioritization decision

• Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint to accept or reject work done

• Conduct user acceptance testing on features and bug fixes before they are released, ensuring the high quality of products that are being delivered to customers

• Communicate to Leadership, Customer Success, Support and other stakeholders rollout plans, feature details and bug status updates

• Conduct stakeholder product training

• Maintain compliant product documentation per Ansira standards

• Make key decisions and judgments on own

• Mentor other team members

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or Business

• At least 5 years of software product experience, preferably in a SaaS environment

• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products 

• High energy, can-do attitude with willingness to do what it takes to get things done 

• Highly quantitative, analytical and business-minded 

• Ability to solve complex problems in an organized way

• Extraordinary attention to detail, including ability to anticipate likely outcomes/assess risks 

• Comfortable working closely with Engineering and experience with Agile development teams 

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written - Ability to communicate with senior leadership

Not required, but would be a plus

• Knowledge of e-commerce, multichannel commerce, online retailing, website user experience, website testing and other marketing strategies

• Product management experience in an agile environment