What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner - Remote position at DriveTime?
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.
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So What About the Perks? Perks matter
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!
