Senior Product Owner - API Team

Deque; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a dedicated Product Owner to lead the development of a flagship product. In this fully remote role, you will be responsible for gathering requirements, managing the product backlog, and ensuring smooth releases through collaboration with engineering and QA teams. Your expertise in B2B enterprise software and your technical background will be invaluable as you prioritize features and enhance the development team's efficiency. Join a forward-thinking company that values your contributions and offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on product success.

Qualifications

• Experience as a product owner with a technical background preferred.
• Strong prioritization and coordination skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate development of flagship products and maintain the backlog.
• Work with engineering and QA to ensure high-quality product releases.

Skills

Product Ownership

Prioritization Skills

Coordination Skills

Technical Background

B2B Enterprise Software Experience

Tools

Git

GitHub

GitLab

Continuous Integration Tools

Job description

Remote: USA or Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands)

Position type

Full Time

Work Type

Full Remote

Position Description

Deque Systems is looking for an execution-focused Product Owner to orchestrate the development of one of our flagship products. The Product Owner will be responsible for gathering requirements, maintaining the backlog and running sprints. They will work with the engineering leads to define and maintain metrics to track the effectiveness of the development team. They will work with the QA team to ensure that product releases are high quality and will proactively communicate with all stakeholders including the product marketing and management teams to make the releases of our products smooth and seamless.

• Prioritize resources and features, set objectives for the sprints, maintain a list of features in order to increase market share and increase adoption within target market
• Work with engineering and support to improve the development team’s efficiency
• Ensure ticket acceptance criteria are clear and complete
• Work with QA and development to ensure complete and efficient testing
• Ensure the product managers are equipped with updated documentation, have accurate and timely change logs, that sprint demo videos exist for every sprint feature and that those videos are available early in the process
• Work with customer support to resolve customer issues including triaging and prioritizing bugs and customer-reported issues
• Work with our product managers to understand market priorities
• Ensure the development team is working on the highest priorities
• Work with our UX/UI designers to produce the mockups of UI (changes) to be implemented

Requirements

• Experience as a product owner
• Previous technical experience; Background working as a software engineer would be preferred
• Previous experience with B2B enterprise software products
• Excellent prioritization and coordination skills

Additional Skills Desired

• Accessibility knowledge and experience would be a plus
• Developer tools knowledge and experience would be a plus e.g., command line applications, APIs, git, GitHub/GitLab, Continuous Integration tools

How to Apply

Thank you for your interest in joining our exciting company! Submit your application anytime.

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