Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid

Duration: 12 months

Role is currently a hybrid role, with 2-3 times a week in office; this could eventually change to full time in office.

Potential Travel - % and Locations 0-25%

Locations: Peoria, IL Office

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree required with 10 yrs exp
• Master's degree a plus but 10 yrs exp required as well.
• Do you accept internships as job experience: no

Required Technical Skills

(Required)

• 3+ years or more of recent experience as an application or web services product manager
• 5+ years of experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• Experience managing product teams.
• 1+ years or more of experience in managing product teams.
• 3+ years of experience with the Agile methodology Top candidates will also have: Domain expertise in IOT or industrial machine service and repair systems/processes
• Strong accountability planning/organization, and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Knowledge of SDLC and demonstrated experience employing SDLC in aspects of the project management process
• Experience managing projects using Agile software tools such as, VSTS, JIRA, Team Services, Rally, Aha
• Postman, API development or API consumption experience

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Demonstrated ability to communicate appropriately to ensure a team's success
• Strong accountability, teamwork, and interpersonal skills, and communication skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:

• Choppy job tenure/consistent job hopping

If not local, but open to relocation on their own dime and begin there day one, please make sure this clear on the resume or I will DQ

Job Purpose:

The Product Owner works as a member of a Scrum Team to help maximize the value of the product and the work of the Scrum Development Team. The Product Owner works intimately with the ScrumMaster and the Development Team. The Product Owner's primary task is to create and manage the Product Backlog and to ensure everyone knows the priorities of the Product Backlog. The Product Owner is empowered to make all decisions regarding the Product Backlog. The Product Owner is typically the individual closest to the business side of the project.

Job Related Statistics

Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization

Job Duties/Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team

Responsible for acting as Product Owner for larger, more complex projects with high value to the organization

Responsible for creating, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog according to business value for the life of the project

Communicate Product Backlog priorities to the team

Act as the key decision-maker regarding what features the product will have

Responsible for the vision of what is to be built, and conveying that vision to the team

Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are small enough, or granular enough, to be achieved in a single sprint

Responsible for conveying the vision and goals at the beginning of every sprint

Work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization

Responsible for making decisions on release dates and content

Represent the customer, interfacing and engaging with the customer

Participate in Daily Scrum as needed

Participate in Sprint Planning meetings, Reveals and Retrospectives

Inspect the product progress at the end of every Sprint and accept or reject the work that has been done by the Development Team

Act as the voice of the team, communicating status externally

Be a good role model of Scrum values; understand the framework and the roles of each team member

Be a champion for the agile community and help to further the community within the organization

BACKGROUND/EXPERIENCE:

Required Qualifications

• Four year Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science, information systems, marketing, communications, engineering or related field
• 5+ years' experience as a software developer or product owner
• 5+ years of experience leading a technical team while simultaneously managing multiple projects
• 3+ years of experience with the Agile methodology
• Demonstrated ability to communicate appropriately to ensure a team's success
• Experience working with enterprise class software solutions, B-to-C a plus
• Strong accountability planning/organization, and teamwork
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive, emotional or potentially controversial situations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills