Product Owner, Enterprise Justice

Description

• 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. 

• 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.