Product Owner

at  Rapid Legal Inc

BENEFITS:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Bonus based on performance
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Employee discounts
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Product Owner partners with our product managers to assess value, develop cases and prioritize stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy. While the Product Manager leans more strategic in nature, the Product Owner should be execution focused and work to prioritize user stories and technical enablers that drive to the overall delivery of the prioritized features. They have a strong foundation in the underlying technologies and cloud services and act as subject matter experts for the products that they build. As a key member of the Scrum team, they will define clear user stories that articulate the functional needs and acceptance criteria while helping the Team to focus on Feature delivery. The Product Owner has strong collaboration with Engineering, QA, Product Management, and Design and works to deliver an execution roadmap to deliver to commitment.

• Please note that this is an “on-site” position

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, or Engineering or equivalent and one to two years’ experience in managing or owning custom developed SaaS products.
• A minimum of 1-2 years’ experience as a Product Owner
• Strong Communication skills

• Work with other product teams, Engineering, and other stakeholders to understand various needs, use cases, and prioritize requests based on business impact, compliance needs, risks, effort, etc.
• Work in an agile environment and continuously review business needs with product manager.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including User Stories, dependencies, and delivery plan.
• Prioritize and maintain the backlog for products, balancing requirements of stakeholders and engineering team throughput.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering and Quality Assurance to ensure understanding of Vision and value proposition.
• Articulates a clear Sprint goal for every sprint.
• Partners with Scrum Master and Engineering to help drive team improvements.
• Builds and maintains a running 2-3 sprints worth of work.
• Working with product designers and product managers in development of user stories
• Plays an active role in mitigating impediments to ensure successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Support scrum master in daily scrum activities.
• Fluent Agilist with ability to grow collaboration, commitment, and transparency.
• Partners with Product Manager and Engineering Leadership along with Stakeholders to craft MVP and future releases.
• Partner with Engineering to address Production issues.
• Refine our Agile methodology based on result and feedback.
• Assisting with QA when needed.
• Ability to grow in business domain knowledge and awareness.
• Process centric and seeks to help mature organizational processes.