Product Owner

PRODUCT OWNER

The Role:

Our client seeking a dynamic Product Owner to take charge of the product vision, driving innovation, fostering self-development, and building strong relationships. The ideal candidate will be highly adaptable, curious, and passionate about understanding the "why" behind each request while owning and shaping the product's overall vision. In this role, you'll be responsible for defining and executing a strategic product roadmap that aligns with business goals and delivers significant value to customers. You'll lead product initiatives from ideation to launch, ensuring quality, scalability, and market relevance, all while collaborating closely with product owners, executives, engineers, and key stakeholders. This role requires candidates to be based in Arizona and offers a hybrid work option, with up to three days on-site.

What you will accomplish:

• Define and communicate the overall product vision, ensuring it aligns with business objectives, and guides the development process to keep the team focused on delivering value.
• Create, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, including new features, fixes, improvements, and maintenance, while balancing business value, customer needs, and technical feasibility.
• Continuously evaluate and prioritize requirements, ensuring the team works on the most valuable features first, balancing stakeholder needs, engineering constraints, customer feedback, market trends, and team capacity.
• Regularly communicates with stakeholders, including users, business leaders, engineering, and support teams, to ensure the product aligns with customer needs and business goals.
• Break down requirements into clear, actionable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Actively participate in sprint planning meetings to ensure proper task prioritization and, during sprint reviews, validates completed work, checks for acceptance criteria, and provides feedback to guide future development.
• Ensure the product meets quality standards by working with Quality Assurance to guarantee thorough testing, defect-free features, and complete implementations.
• Plan and schedule product releases, ensuring they are delivered on time with proper testing and clear communication to stakeholders and users.
• Continuously gather feedback from users, customers, and market trends, adjusting priorities and refining the product direction to meet evolving market and user needs.
• Maintain the product roadmap, highlighting major milestones, upcoming features, and timelines, and uses it as a strategic tool to align teams and stakeholders on long-term product goals.

What we would like you to have:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product ownership, collaborating with executives and developers to align on a shared vision and achieve optimal product outcomes.
• Strong relationship management skills with stakeholders, including executives, users, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, ensuring alignment across the organization while acting as the product's chief advocate.
• In-depth understanding of Agile principles, including Scrum and Kanban, with proven ability to refine and prioritize the product backlog based on data, business value, and technical feasibility.
• Skilled at translating complex business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to drive informed product decisions.
• Ability to interpret user feedback, conduct competitive analysis, and evaluate product performance metrics to guide development and prioritize enhancements.
• Proficient in understanding technical constraints, system architecture, and the software development process.
• Skilled in working effectively with engineering teams, anticipating risks, and balancing technical debt with feature development to deliver a scalable, reliable, performant, secure, and high-quality product.

You re inspired by our client s values:

• Altruistic - their foundation is built upon the authentic, selfless concern they share for the success and wellbeing of others.
• Fair 360 - they illuminate with kindness by seeking to understand before being understood and by caring more than may seem reasonable so they can achieve genuine success for all.
• Strategic - The blueprint that guides the creation of a genuine place of purpose expresses the clarity of their vision, the rigor of their thoughts and the character of their word.
• Sincere - They present no facades, only genuine elevations of truth, trust, and wholehearted loyalty to the employees they mentor, the clients they serve and the communities they call home.
• Nimble - Their structural integrity is ensured through the balance of resourcefulness, responsiveness, and adaptability and strengthened by being well-rounded in the market to serve at the highest levels.

Compensation:

Total compensation package includes competitive salary and comprehensive benefits and 100% employee ownership. From wellness to work life, their benefits support their employees' total wellbeing.

Benefits Include:

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• 401k with employer match
• Employee medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered, with options to add dependents at 50% coverage by our client
• Flexible Time Off Policy
• 9 paid company holidays
• 3 consecutive weeks of parental bonding leave, with an additional 3-5 weeks of disability leave for delivery recovery
• Spacious break rooms with healthy meals & snacks provided at no additional cost
• Team-building activities, including volunteer opportunities