About the role

  • Serve as the voice of customer and the business within your agile development team, keeping development team informed of customers and business goals
  • Support product leaders and stakeholders in creation of product road maps while keeping development team informed of customer and business goals
  • Manage and prioritize the product backlog to ensure alignment with business priorities
  • Develop user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams and assist in resolution of requirements questions during development process
  • Participate and lead in agile ceremonies including grooming, planning, reviews and daily standups
  • Conduct user acceptance testing and facilitate stakeholder acceptance and feedback
  • Coordinate with other Product Owners and Software Engineering Managers to synchronize cross-functional dependencies
  • Support releases with development team through demos and stakeholder communications
  • Work with product leaders to translate strategic goals and objectives into product roadmaps
  • Provide strategic clarity, while maintaining quality in execution throughout the build and delivery processes
  • Consistently demonstrate high level of product owner best practices and mentor other Product Owners

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working as product owner or similar role in product management
  • 3+ years of experience working with software development teams in agile environment
  • Strong understanding of agile methodologies, particularly scrum
  • Strong critical thinking skills, with ability to approach problems analytically, and evidence based when balancing customer needs with technical feasibility
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with senior leadership
  • Ability to balance multiple competing priorities and requests, and work across multiple product areas
  • Expertise in problem framing, defining assumptions, and defining impact based on data and insights
  • Deep understanding of SDLC best practices and how they support product development

Benefits

  • Hybrid work
  • Office located in Bolingbrook, IL
  • Remote work policy allowing work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Job title

Senior Product Owner

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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