Product Owner

Title: Product Owner Position Type: Contract 6 Months. Location: Upper Gwynedd, PA, United States Description:

• As a Product Owner within the Foundational Platforms group you will:
• Own the CTO Product Catalog and Product Management Portal (both new products)
• Create and drive key product artifacts such as vision, value proposition, roadmap, and metrics
• Be responsible for outcomes and benefits realization
• Influence and work with various business and IT stakeholders and manage expectations
• Translate business requirements from stakeholders and/or a prototype
• Ensure product meets the needs of the business stakeholders
• Close the product learning loop by actively gathering and validating customer feedback, usage and needs and managing a prioritized product backlog
• Plan and manage product market engagement, rollout, and adoption strategies
• Work with the team in required agile ceremonies
• Define and drive adoption of the most valuable solutions (both customer facing & "behind the scene" platform enhancements)
• Create product deliverables (e.g., epics, stories, requirements, testing, etc.)
• Manage escalations, issues, risks, and dependencies
• Identify potential new opportunities

• 5+ years Product Management experience especially:
• Leadership with proven ability to independently drive product management principles and lead customer-centric software development teams
• Vision and Leadership
• Value Proposition definition with deep understanding of ROIs definition and value driven development of solutions
• Product road-mapping, backlog, and lifecycle management
• Business process modelling
• Focus on defining value, measuring results, marketing success
• Experience from working in agile environment understanding of MVP and build-measure-learn concept and principles
• Proven success in delivering user facing products and services
• Sharp communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with driving digital products from concept through to launch and beyond
• Passion for great UX, product design, usability assessments
• Ability to balance business and user needs while taking into account technical limitations
• Proactive approach to problem-solving
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and simultaneously managing multiple stakeholders and products
• Furthermore, we will be happy if you know or have heard of one of these:
• Design thinking/Double diamond
• Lean UX, Interaction design, User research and usability testing
• Continuous Discovery
• Design sprint
• Scrum/Kanban
• Continuous integration