Product Owner

About Us

At Flatirons Solutions, we have a very important job. With millions flying each day, we play an important role in making sure everything goes as planned. We take technical information and through software solutions we work our magic and produce an effective product that allows aviation and aerospace workers to be experts.

Who We Are

We are a global team of nearly 400 professionals with a passion of Turning Content into Knowledge. We are located in North America, Asia, and Europe. Innovative software and service solutions are our bread and butter.

What We Do

We use cutting edge XML and 3D technologies to make complex content come to life, allowing millions of airline passengers to travel more safely each day thanks to more efficient, compliant maintenance and operational procedures.

Who We Serve

We partner with manufacturers to produce the data needed to deliver complex products like aircraft, jet engines, components, and defense systems. We work with airlines to take control of that data to revise and deliver it to their flight crews and maintainers worldwide. Our solutions help power 8 of the world’s 10 largest airlines and some of the most successful aviation and defense manufacturers in the world.

We are looking to fill a Product Owner role for our global Engineering Operations Organization. Join us as we apply world-class software engineering practices to solve complex Content Lifecycle Management (CLM) problems in some of the most interesting problem spaces in industry today.

Our solutions are used in a wide range of functions within organizations in the aerospace and aviation industry, including: technical engineering change order management, documentation authoring and publishing, flight operations manuals, data archiving, and other workflow, documentation and maintenance products.

US Persons required. Visa holders not eligible!

Role Summary

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features for the team. The PO has a significant role in maximizing the value produced by the team and ensuring Stories meet the user’s needs and comply with the Definition of Done. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with Solution Management, Customers, Technical Account Managers, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Works with customers to understand their business needs, current workflows and processes and translate those to software requirements.

• Accepts features from Solution Management ensuring the requirements are clear and ready to be broken down into user stories.

• Approves feature and user story designs to ensure they meet the needs of all impacted customers.

• Manage the product business initiatives estimation process.

• Builds and grooms the team backlog into sprint-sized or smaller work items (i.e., User Stories, Defects and Activities). Backlog items are prioritized based on business initiatives, customer support activities, and other team dependencies determined in the PI planning event and refined during the PI/ART.

• Provides go/no-go on acceptance of implemented user stories. This includes validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, has appropriate acceptance tests, and complies with its Definition of Done.

• Reviews and re-prioritize the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs. During the iteration planning event, the PO communicates story detail and priorities and ensures the team aligns and agrees on a final iteration plan.

• Coordinates with other product owners to ensure cross-product dependencies are resolved with minimal impact to the release.

• Provides feature status to business owners (Product Managers, TAMs, etc.) and project managers.

• Provides feature demos to Solution Management, Customers, Technical Account Managers and other stakeholders.

• Reviews and accepts product documentation for quality and accuracy.

• Maintains the product feature list.

• Maintains the product release calendar.

• Understand and adhere to all requirements of the Quality Management System and the Information Security Management System.

Accountability

• Accountable for product release deliveries.

• Accountable for on time, on quality and on scope business initiatives.

Competency

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Works efficiently with minimum supervision, operates independently on assignments.

• Recommends processing improvements and opportunities for operational enhancement.

• Very resourceful and driven towards excellence.

• Solid analytical and logical cognitive skills.

• Creative thinker with a vision.

• Attention to details.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent years' experience in software development.

• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience participating in business process change, and operations implementation projects.

• Must have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a technical lead/team lead/lead designer role - this role requires a good understanding of technology.

• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles.

Salary: $100,000 to $130,000

Salary : $100,000 - $130,000