Hybrid Senior Product Owner

at S&S Activewear

• Job title: Senior Product Owner
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bolingbrook, United States

About the role

• Product Owner managing strategies and agile workflows for a tech-enabled apparel distributor. Leading product roadmaps and collaborating with business and engineering teams in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the voice of customer and the business within your agile development team, keeping development team informed of customers and business goals
• Support product leaders and stakeholders in creation of product road maps while keeping development team informed of customer and business goals
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog to ensure alignment with business priorities
• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams and assist in resolution of requirements questions during development process
• Participate and lead in agile ceremonies including grooming, planning, reviews and daily standups
• Conduct user acceptance testing and facilitate stakeholder acceptance and feedback
• Coordinate with other Product Owners and Software Engineering Managers to synchronize cross-functional dependencies
• Support releases with development team through demos and stakeholder communications
• Work with product leaders to translate strategic goals and objectives into product roadmaps
• Provide strategic clarity, while maintaining quality in execution throughout the build and delivery processes
• Consistently demonstrate high level of product owner best practices and mentor other Product Owners

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working as product owner or similar role in product management
• 3+ years of experience working with software development teams in agile environment
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies, particularly scrum
• Strong critical thinking skills, with ability to approach problems analytically, and evidence based when balancing customer needs with technical feasibility
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with senior leadership
• Ability to balance multiple competing priorities and requests, and work across multiple product areas
• Expertise in problem framing, defining assumptions, and defining impact based on data and insights
• Deep understanding of SDLC best practices and how they support product development

Benefits

• Hybrid work
• Office located in Bolingbrook, IL
• Remote work policy allowing work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays