Product Owner

Lanvera; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Lanvera is seeking a Product Owner to translate product vision into a prioritized backlog and actionable user stories. You will collaborate with product management to define requirements, lead backlog grooming, and guide cross-functional teams through design, development, and validation.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and experience with Agile methodologies to ensure timely delivery of features across US-based teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as Product Owner or Business Analyst.
• Experience building and managing product backlog and drafting requirements.
• Proficiency in requirements definition, solution design, and UX disciplines.
• Familiarity with SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile).
• Excellent verbal and written communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as Product Owner for a product or platform capability.
• Drive product roadmap and manage product backlog.
• Lead requirement gathering sessions and capture decisions across organization levels.
• Define clear product requirements and create actionable user stories for development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on prioritization, design, and implementation.
• Provide timely clarification to development teams to avoid delays.
• Drive planning and design discussions and document outcomes.
• Support QA during solution testing and validation.
• Work within a team to deliver projects on time.

Skills

Backlog management

Requirements gathering

User stories

Communication

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum

Documentation

Decision making

Education

5+ years as Product Owner/Business Analyst

Job description

Onsite//Only Accepting US Citizens or Green Card Holders

THE POSITION

The Product Owner has the responsibility for working with the Product Management team to formulate and understand product vision and strategy and to translate that vision to stakeholders by creating, prioritizing, managing, and executing on the product backlog. The Product Owner will collect, analyze, and maintain business and functional requirements for all development efforts, and create actionable user stories for the development team to execute. Other responsibilities: Decompose, refine, and document requirements using appropriate graphical and textual techniques, including use cases, user stories, diagrams, process models, and functional specifications.

Responsibilities

• Act as Product Owner for a product or platform capability
• Drive product roadmap and manage product backlog
• Lead requirement gathering sessions to capture requirements and key decisions across varying levels of the organization
• Define clear product requirements and create actionable user stories for the development team to execute
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on feature prioritization, design, and implementation
• Support development teams in getting requirements clarification questions answered in a timely manner to avoid delays in development timelines
• Drive and participate in planning and design discussions and document the outcomes and decisions made
• Provide support to Quality Assurance team members during solution testing and validation
• Work effectively within a team environment to implement projects in a timely manner

Required Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
• Five years or more of experience working as a Product Owner or Business Analyst
• Experience building and managing product backlog
• Experience in soliciting and drafting product requirements
• Proficiency in requirements definition, solution design, and user experience disciplines
• Experience with the SDLC methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, team and time management skills
• Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take

Desired Skills

• Experience with scalable, internet-facing, multi-tenant applications
• Experience with workflow-based and/or event-driven platforms
• Experience with design and delivery of omnichannel communications
• Experience with print production, operations, and direct mail