Gentis Solutions is seeking a Lead Product Owner to join our team. This full-time contract-to-hire position is with an industry-leading data analytics firm interested in full-time flex/remote consultants. The ideal candidates will have the required skills listed below and will be eligible and open to being hired by the data firm at the end of the project's duration. This position will work alongside an existing team and leverages enterprise-level technologies and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 4-6 years of relevant experience
- Skilled in managing cross-functional software development teams in an agile environment
- Skilled in managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
- Skilled in managing end-to-end software product development
- Stakeholder management skills experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
- Problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
- Planning, organizational and time management skills
- Comfort with ambiguity remains confident, positive and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
- Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
- Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical
- Technical acumen grasps the technical details to lead a team
Desirable Skills
- Experience leading a brand new team (team members are existing, experienced associates but this dedicated team is new)
Typical Duties
- Drive business value for the team by prioritizing and ordering product backlog items based on the product roadmap
- Experienced in managing a teams product backlog and ensuring its transparent, visible and clearly communicated
- Translates business desires/requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development
- Outlines clear acceptance criteria, to clearly communicate the definition of done
- Stakeholder management experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
- Experienced level knowledge in the development and use of product data to influence product decisions/roadmap both quantitative and qualitative
- Deep understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, business processes and constraints in which your product(s) play
- Deep understanding of customers/users problems, how they think and operate and the platforms/technology they use
- Understand and communicate organization objectives, strategies and solution needs to the team to facilitate results (where collaborative/as colleague)
- Manage and communicate dependencies and risks
Remote Work :
No