Product Owner, Enterprise Justice
Description
Our Enterprise Justice business unit seeks an experienced Product Owner to help us continue building and maintaining our market-leading case management system. You will join a multi-disciplinary team that will help you get up to speed quickly. This opportunity will allow the right candidate to influence high-impact, broad-reaching decisions that will positively impact our industry and society.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers and business teams to create and maintain product backlog according to business value or ROI.
- Evaluate the impact of projects and defect fixes to maximize the team’s short-term and long-term impact.
- Research market problems and design solutions.
- Helps cultivate and promote a vision for moving products forward
- Prioritize the problems to solve and curate a refined backlog of prioritized work.
- Create detailed and easy-to-read software requirements, which may include user stories, use cases, flowcharts, etc.
- Responsible for launching new releases to the organization and ensuring successful adoption across product-line teams
- Act as a liaison between end users, project teams, client executives, and other stakeholders in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, and maintenance to ensure optimal operational performance.
- Participate in the demonstration and training of functionality for stakeholders.
- Consistently attend scrum ceremonies (daily standup meetings, sprint planning, story workshops, sprint retrospectives).
- Balance the need to deliver value with a budget and competing priorities.
- Earn the respect of your team, stakeholders, and the organization to gain support for your decisions.
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or a related field is strongly preferred.
- Equivalent work experience may substitute for degree requirement.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience as a Product Owner/Manager
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in software or related experience including but not limited to writing and documenting client specifications.
- Strong collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience creating user stories, use cases, process flows, wireframes, and mockups.
- Understanding of software design principles, especially user-centered design.
- Understanding of the software development life cycle, especially agile methodologies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication, teamwork, and customer service skills.
- Self-starter with strong analytical and problem-solving skills who takes the initiative and proactively offers suggestions and resolutions.
- Ability to be decisive and willing to say “no” to good ideas to deliver great ideas.
- Experience with design tools like Figma, Visio, Axure, or Adobe XD is a plus.
- Familiarity with Jira or equivalent software.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaborate in a team as well as across functional groups.
- Ability to be effective in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be able to travel occasionally if requested.