Product Owner - Remote

What's Under The Hood

DriveTime Family of Brands is the largest privately owned used car sales finance & servicing company in the nation. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Dallas, Texas, we create opportunities and improve the lives of our customers and our employees by placing a focus on putting the right customer, in the right vehicle, on the right terms and on their path to ownership.

The DriveTime Family of Brands spans across DriveTime, Bridgecrest and SilverRock. You can find us at the intersection of technology and innovation as we use our proprietary tools and over two decades of industry knowledge to redefine the process of purchasing, financing, and protecting your vehicle.

That's Nice, But What's the Job?

In short, as a remote Product Owner for the Application Development groups at DriveTime, you'll be responsible for the communication, coordination, planning, and delivery of projects that flow through the team. You will work with a wide variety of business and IT stakeholders to help the team achieve their technology goals in an organized and timely manner.

In Long, Our Product Owners Are Responsible For

• Acting as a liaison between business and development team to help clarify requests.
• Working with tech leads to create short/long term project plans including milestones and phases
• Managing and organizing project boards
• Working with business and tech leads to document/flesh out up next projects
• Ensuring business value and high-level scope are clearly defined
• Serving as a gatekeeper for high-level requirements
• Obtaining consensus on project scope through conversations with business stakeholders and tech leads
• Organizing and collecting business/technical requirements
• Managing project plan execution
• Looking for execution efficiencies and adjusting timelines and targets as needed
• Providing frequent communication to business on project status
• Helping test solutions to ensure they meet business expectations
• Serving as a point of contact for projects involving multiple units to ensure efficient cross-team coordination
• Setting up project Demos with business stakeholders
• Holding postmortems (retros) to evaluate lessons learned
  
  

So What Kind of Folks Are We Looking for?

The Specifics.

• Bachelor's degree required, bachelor's degree in business or MBA preferred
• 2 years of Product Owner or relevant experience in a fast-paced business environment
• Experience working with web and mobile applications in a product owner capacity
• High-level knowledge of various project management methodologies (i.e. agile/scrum)
• Experience in capturing and articulating business requirements to agile development teams
• Basic understanding of writing SQL queries (T-SQL and/or SnowSQL)
• Experience using Microsoft product suite: Word, Excel, Visio, Project (Or other various project management tools such as Target Process, monday.com or Jira)
  
  

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So What About the Perks? Perks matter

• Medical, dental, and vision, oh my! DriveTime Family of Brands covers a sizable amount of insurance premiums to ensure our employees receive top-tier healthcare coverage.
• But Wait, There's More. 401(K), Company paid life insurance policy, short and long-term disability coverage to name a few.
• Growth Opportunities. You grow, I grow, we all grow! But seriously, DriveTime Family of Brands is committed to providing its employees with every opportunity to grow professionally with roughly over 1,000 employees promoted year over year.
• Tuition Reimbursement. We're as passionate about your professional development as you are. With that, we'll put our money where our mouth is.
• Wellness Program. Health is wealth! This program includes self-guided coaching and journeys, cash incentives and discounts on your medical premiums through engaging in fun activities!
• Gratitude is Green. We offer competitive pay across the organization, because, well money matters!
• In-House Gym. We want our employees to be the best versions of themselves. So come early, take a break in your day or finish strong with a workout!
• Give Us a Reason (or not), and We'll Celebrate. Regardless of whether there is a holiday or not, we are finding ways to kick back and enjoy each other's company outside of day-to-day work.
• Smart-Casual Dress. Come dressed in jeans (you'll fit right in with the rest of us).
• Paid Time Off. Not just lip service: we work hard, to play hard ! Paid time off includes (for all full-time roles) wellness days, holidays, and good ole' fashioned YOU time! For our Part-timers, don't fear you get some time too...vacation time is available - the more you work, the more you earn!
  
  

Anything Else? Absolutely.

DriveTime Family of Brands is Great Place to Work Certified! And get this: 90% of our rockstar employees say they feel right at home here. We could spend a lot of time having you read about ALL our awards, but we'll save time (and practice some humility) just naming a few others; Comparably Awards: Best Company for Diversity, Best Company Culture and Best Company Leadership, oh and don't forget Phoenix Business Journal Healthiest Employers (okay, we'll stop there)!

Hiring is contingent upon successful completion of our background and drug screening process. DriveTime is a drug-free, tobacco-free workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

And when it comes to hiring, we don't just look for the right person for the job, we seek out the right person for DriveTime. Buckle up for plenty of opportunities to grow in a professional, fun, and high-energy environment!

Application Instructions

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