What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Product Owner position at Chemical Abstracts Service?
Description
Date : Dec 12, 2024
Location : Washington, DC, US, 20036 (or Columbus, OH, US, 43202)
Company : American Chemical Society
Position Title : Sr Product Owner
The American Chemical Society is the world's largest scientific membership association and one of the top ten science publishers in the world. The Platform Products team within ACS oversees the creation, maturation, and maintenance of internal platforms that support ACS Publications' core business (ACS Journals) with a focus on maximizing the customer experience.
Position Summary :
The responsibility of a Sr. Product Owner is to understand the business processes, clearly document, develop use cases, facilitate backlog refinement meetings, write user stories, clarify business needs to the technical team, acceptance test, showcase the developed products to leadership and contribute to the overall product development for portfolio level products enhancing user experience. He / she uses proven critical skills such as communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to add value to the overall product development. This position requires the ability to work independently and take initiative while working effectively as an active team member of the product team.
Responsibilities :
- Primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring that the team backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs.
- Serves as a subject matter expert (SME), super-user and an evangelist for the product.
- Works in close partnership with the Product Manager to ensure that the product strategy and the implementation remain connected throughout the value stream.
- Contributes to Program Increment planning and responsible for conducting agile ceremonies to keep the product team on track towards deliverables.
- Assists with Product backlog prioritization process in collaboration with the Product Manager, System Architects, and other stakeholders.
- Play a critical role in enabling the continuous feedback loops that fuels the value stream.
- Understands the underlying Business processes and contributes to the product vision and roadmap with the mindset of the customer.
- Understand the current technical capabilities and limitations and recommend innovative approaches to reduce the overhead of developing new features and maintaining existing features.
- Understand relationships between applications within the backend systems and able to define the dependencies for the product.
- Checks out the features delivered are at the expected quality before they are available for the customer.
- Produce comprehensive business and technical documentation relevant to completed products.
- Share or showcase progress made by the product team and value delivered to appropriate audiences.
- Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development.
Education / Experience / Technological Knowledge
This position is based in the Washington, DC or Columbus, OH offices of the American Chemical Society. A reasonable rate of compensation per year is listed for each location.
Employees work a hybrid schedule as decided by functional area. The balance of the week is open to working remotely, though employees are always welcome onsite each day if they choose. Some travel may be required.
ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position : paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, paid holidays, health insurance, flexible spending account or health care savings account, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, retirement benefits, short- and long-term disability, and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills, experience, and location.
Any actual offer of employment, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be made in the sole discretion of ACS. ACS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.
EEO / Minority / Female / Disabled / Veteran
Qualifications
Behaviors Detail Oriented - Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
Team Player - Works well as a member of a group
Motivations Self-Starter - Inspired to perform without outside help
Education Bachelors of Computer Science (preferred)
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Salary : $126,000 - $165,000
