Product Owner

Reports To: Sr. Product Director Measurement and Insights

Employment Type: Full Time, FSLA Status: Exempt, EEO Category: Professionals

The Impact you Will Have:

We are looking for a Product Owner to lead agile development processes and strategies for our various integrations and software platform. As a Product Owner, you'll work closely with product leadership, engineering, and design to ensure features and products are delivered on time and meet expectations. You will collaborate with operations and engineering leadership triaging and resolving bugs that impact our customers' experience. As a key part of the product launch team, you'll be responsible for internal communication and documentation for feature and product releases.

What You'll Do:

• Translating the product roadmap and vision into actionable bite-sized work (user stories) for software engineers to build
• Working with the development team to ensure clarity of requirements, and refining user story details - balancing features with technical costs
• Organizing and facilitating agile scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, refinement, retrospectives, and release planning
• Using Jira to organize, plan, communicate, and monitor software development
• Building and prioritizing the product backlog, based on the business priorities and in consideration of team efficiency
• Verifying "stories" are completed to specifications
• Collaborates with engineering and support to triage and resolve bugs according to their risk level
• Owning internal communications of upcoming features through release notes
• Developing and maintaining product documentation, including user manuals, release notes, and technical specifications.

What You'll Need:

• Minimum 1-2 years of professional experience ideally in a SaaS role
• Minimum 1 year of Scrum experience
• Knowledge and experience using JIRA/Confluence
• Scrum Master Certification or similar certification (preferred)
• Solid communication skills (with internal stakeholders and customers) and interest to grow in stakeholder management and influence
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

What You'll Get:

• Access to some of the richest professional development programs.
• A variety of benefits. Programs include health benefits, life insurance, income protection and retirement savings plan with employer contributions to assist with your health & financial security today and in the years ahead.
• Access to health benefits and wellness programs for employees and families.
• The ability to work in a flexible work environment.
• Professional development support as we want YOU to be successful in your career. Our team will work with you to establish the goals you are trying to achieve in your profession.

The Process:

The first step is to apply to the role. If your experience matches our needs, you will be reached out to by a member of the HR team to set up a call to learn more about you. From there, you can expect to meet with the hiring manager and some other members of the team. We like to connect over the phone, via Zoom and sometimes, in person (when applicable)!

AAP:

Crucial Learning provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Crucial Learning complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Crucial Learning expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Crucial Learning's employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

If you are vision-impaired or have some other disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or a similar law, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at Crucial Learning, please contact our Recruitment department at hr@cruciallearning.com.

ADA (American with Disabilities Act) Information

• Work is performed primarily in an office setting
• Operates standard office equipment to include a computer, calculator, copier, fax, telephone