What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Kardex?
As a Product Owner at Kardex AutoStore North America, you will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and executing product features, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and maximizing value delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and product managers to translate customer needs into clear, actionable requirements. Your role will be pivotal in driving product development, backlog management, and ensuring seamless collaboration between cross-functional teams.
Kardex’s software solution for AutoStore is a proven modular software platform, leveraging over 30 years of research and development to seamlessly interface with any host system. Our software development team, centrally located in Cincinnati, OH, focuses exclusively on AutoStore integration, applicable subsystems and processes which provides the most reliable and comprehensive AutoStore software solution on the market.
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About Kardex’s software solution
An automated warehouse revolves around the effective orchestration of hardware and software systems. Kardex provides highly reliable and precise mechanical solutions but also an intelligent and configurable warehouse execution system (WES).
Kardex’s software solution for AutoStore is a proven modular software platform, leveraging over 30 years of research and development to seamlessly interface with any host system. Our software development team, centrally located in Cincinnati, OH, focuses exclusively on AutoStore integration, applicable subsystems and processes which provides the most reliable and comprehensive AutoStore software solution on the market.
Job Purpose
- Roadmap Updates: Responsible for maintaining the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Feature Design & Writing: Collaborate with Product Manager to gather requirements, understand feature specifications, and document product functionality.
- Stories Writing: Own the creation and refinement of user stories to ensure development teams have clear, actionable tasks and acceptance criteria.
- Feature Design Handoff: Lead the transition of feature designs to development teams, ensuring alignment with business requirements.
- Backlog Management: Prioritize and maintain the product backlog to optimize development efforts.
- Scrum Ceremonies: Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing guidance and clarifications on backlog items.
- Design Acceptance Criteria: Define and validate acceptance criteria to ensure product quality and usability.
- Development Implementation Support: Collaborate with developers to ensure requirements are well understood and implemented correctly.
- Test Case Review: Assist in reviewing test cases to validate feature functionality.
- Product Feature Verification: Ensure that implemented features align with product roadmap and result in high-quality releases. Oversee release preparation to identify and address potential risks and gaps.
- Release Notes & Documentation: Maintain and update product documentation, including release notes and specifications.
- Release Tracking & Notifications: Manage release activities, ensuring smooth deployment and stakeholder communication.
Job Requirements
Training/Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Excellent communication skills
Professional Experience:
- Proven experience (4 years) as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
- Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC) and product development principles.
- Familiarity with warehouse execution systems (WES) or automation software is a plus.
- Strong ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
Other Experiences:
Experience supporting and developing Warehouse management systems is preferred.
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