Product Owner

On-Demand Group; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 103,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

On-Demand Group seeks a Product Owner in Minneapolis to lead cross-functional delivery of customer-focused experiences. You will own vision translation into strategy, manage the backlog, write user stories, and align work with the product roadmap to maximize business value.

You'll collaborate with Product Manager, stakeholders, and agile teams to prioritize work, refine requirements, and measure outcomes. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Certified Product Owner or similar certification preferred.
• 4–6 years of relevant business experience.
• Understanding of Agile product management, stakeholder management, market and user research.
• Strong organization, communication, and prioritization skills.
• Experience with discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycles.
• Experience with UI design principles and large-scale initiatives.
• Advanced MS Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Own direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer needs.
• Translate vision into strategy and tactics to drive business outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and agile team to deliver value.
• Maintain and evolve product backlog and roadmap.
• Engage with customers to uncover needs and measure value.

Skills

Agile product management

Stakeholder management

Product discovery

Prioritization

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Certified Product Owner

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The Product Owner works on a cross functional team to create meaningful and simple experiences for their product’s customers. They own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer wants and needs. A PO typically is new to the role of Product Owner, and as such likely manages products with limited scope and impact.

The Product Owner is responsible for articulating and translating the overall vision for the product into strategy and tactics, and for identifying specific solutions in order to drive necessary business outcomes. This highly collaborative role works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members, in order to rapidly deliver quality solutions to customers.

• Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences
• Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with our client priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
• Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
• Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
• Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed.
• Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
• Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings
• Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
• Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps))

Education

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred:

• Certified Product Owner or similar certification
• 4-6 years relevant business experience
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
• Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
• Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
• Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices
• Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
• Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint
• No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises product teams with cross-functional team members.

The projected hourly range for this position is $75 to $90. On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.