Product Owner

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint™ in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

We’re transforming the software industry.  We’re Flexera.  With more than 50,000 customers across the world, we’re achieving that goal. But we know we can’t do any of that without our team.  Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans?  Come and see why we’re consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester and IDC as a category leader in the marketplace. Learn more at flexera.com

As a Product Owner, you will manage the full product lifecycle for your product, you will be responsible for creating user stories by collaborating with product managers, user experience design and engineering, identifying clear acceptance criteria for each.

As a Product Owner aspiring to be a Product Manager, you will manage the full product lifecycle for your product. You will be responsible for creating user stories by collaborating with product managers, user experience design, and engineering, identifying clear acceptance criteria for each.

Serving as the voice of the customer internally, you will work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision and scope for each feature, conduct customer research, and gather feedback on feature development. Collaborating with engineering, you will actively participate in agile processes and remove/mitigate impediments impacting successful completion of release/sprint goals. You will own and drive the product release funnel for your Agile team, working with other product managers and development teams to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release.

Serving as the voice of the customer internally, you will work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision and scope for each feature, conduct customer research and gather feedback on feature development.

Collaborating with engineering you will actively participate in the agile processes and remove/mitigate impediments impacting successful completion of release/sprint goals. You will own and drive the product release funnel for your Agile team, working with other product managers and development teams to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release. 

Responsibilities

• Create user stories by collaborating with product managers, marketing, and engineering. Identifying clear acceptance criteria for each story.
• Work with Product Managers to create roadmaps and maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories.
• Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the product vision and scope for each feature, and then gather the technical details of the feature breakdown.
• Serve as the voice of the customer internally.
• Actively participate in the agile processes, as a team product owner.
• Remove/mitigate impediments impacting successful completion of Release or Sprint goals.
• Support Product Management with customer research and gather feedback from internal and external stakeholders on feature development.
• Help create marketing materials such as datasheets and white papers that communicate the benefits of our product offerings to customers, reflecting our position as an established industry leader.
• Be a product ambassador and expert among stakeholders - engineers, managers, and technical support staff.
• Support customer interactions, specifically when validating new functionality or collating information about enhancement requests or defects.
• Collect and maintain competitive data for reference by the organization.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• A relevant BA/BS degree.
• A strong technical background including experience developing and deploying complex on-prem and SaaS software products.
• Working knowledge of product development architecture.
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum and other Agile software development methodologies.
• Strong time-management and prioritization skills, and attention to detail
• Superior written and verbal communication skills in English, especially applied to understanding and communicating product related items to teams and to stakeholders.
• Ability to work with large teams.
• Understanding of design quality standards.
• SaaS experience a plus including understanding SaaS architecture, business models, vendor licensing models, implementation challenges, etc.
• Experience working in matrix organization influencing work in different functions of user experience design, and software development.
• Flexible with working times as some meetings with our US-based teams may fall into the evening hours.