Product Owner

Cloudious LLC; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudious LLC is seeking a Product Manager to define stories, prioritize backlog, and align with program priorities while ensuring platform integrity. The role emphasizes Gen AI use cases and close collaboration with Scrum teams and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities include owning the platform backlog, guiding feature releases, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver value through platform products.

Qualifications

• Ability to identify Epic and stories.
• Experience implementing Gen AI use cases is mandatory.
• Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team / Product Backlog.

Responsibilities

• Own platform backlog prioritization and roadmap alignment.
• Define feature releases using working backwards approach.
• Coordinate with interdependent teams and business stakeholders.
• Develop platform product requirements and set release goals.
• Monitor feature development and verify against acceptance criteria.
• Prepare platform product documentation and KPIs for features.

Skills

Story prioritization

Epic & story identification

Scrum team experience

Gen AI use case

Job description

Job Description:

• Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team / Product Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for with the team is responsible.
• Ability to identify Epic and stories.
• Experienced in working with Scrum team and business closely.
• Experience of implementation of Gen AI use case is mandatory.

Defines Vision and Platform Needs:

• Owns the working backwards documents for feature releases
• Makes use of research, user studies, metrics, and competitive analysis to understand the platform and business needs for a platform product
• Compares features for competitive review to inform prioritization within a platform product release
• Identifies innovations or performs "test and learn" experiments to create features that add more business and customer value for a platform product
• Participates with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs.

Technical Product Portfolio Management:

• Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the platform product portfolio and roadmap
• Makes trade-off decisions on platform product features
• Exhibits expertise within platform feature area and coordinates with interdependent teams.

Platform Product Planning & Development:

• Develops business and platform requirements for either one platform component of a large platform product or a narrow product
• Sets the direction for the platform design of assigned products
• Determines release goals for a narrow platform product or a component of a large product, prioritizes features according to business and platform product, and adjusts throughout the implementation as needed
• Continuously monitors feature development through a bug catalog at the platform product level
• Reviews the product demo with the development team against the acceptance criteria for his / her component of a product
• Prepares platform product documentation, ensuring features and documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams.
• Creates and monitors KPIs for assigned product features
• For any issues, assesses the alternatives to resolve ("path to green") and builds a plan for resolution

Launch:

• Executes the platform GTM plan, monitors the effect of the plan and reports on it
• Owns and delivers on post-launch reviews and customer feedback, drives the associated actions, and incorporates feedback into the future launch plans

Operate:

• Develops strategic business and customer engagement plan and drives its execution
• Cultivates relationships with key industry thought leaders to increase platform product success in the market segment
• Leads operational platform product strategy across an entire portfolio and works with other platform product teams to ensure strategies are aligned
• Represents the team in executive operational reviews and drives follow-through on issues identified
• Develops strategies to launch platform products into new market segments, particularly where significant modifications are expected
• Helps leadership craft responses for escalations of customer / business facing product issues
• Identifies new controls and leverage points to accelerate growth