Product management, agile process, sprint planning

Job Responsibilities:

• User Story & Acceptance Criteria Definition: Create detailed user stories by collaborating with product managers, marketing teams, and engineering, ensuring clear and comprehensive acceptance criteria for each story.
• Roadmap & Backlog Management: Work closely with Product Managers to develop and refine product roadmaps and maintain a continuously prioritized backlog of user stories.
• Product Vision & Scope Communication: Engage with development teams to ensure a thorough understanding of the product vision and scope for each feature, and gather technical details for feature breakdown.
• Customer Advocacy: Serve as the voice of the customer internally, ensuring customer needs and perspectives are represented throughout the development process.
• Agile Participation: Actively participate in Agile processes as a team Product Owner, facilitating discussions and ensuring smooth workflow.
• Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, remove, and mitigate impediments impacting the successful completion of Release or Sprint goals.
• Customer Research & Feedback: Support Product Management in conducting customer research and gathering feedback from internal and external stakeholders on feature development.
• Marketing Material Creation: Assist in creating compelling marketing materials such as datasheets and white papers that effectively communicate the benefits of product offerings to customers, reinforcing the company's position as an industry leader.
• Product Ambassadorship: Act as a product ambassador and expert among all stakeholders, including engineers, managers, and technical support staff.
• Customer Interaction Support: Support customer interactions, particularly when validating new functionality or collating information regarding enhancement requests or defects.
• Competitive Data Collection: Collect and maintain competitive data for organizational reference and strategic planning.

Required Skills:

• Product Management Expertise: Strong background and proficiency in product management practices.
• Agile & Scrum Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of Agile software development methodologies, particularly Scrum, and experience with sprint planning.
• Technical Background: A strong technical background, including experience developing and deploying complex on-prem and SaaS software products.
• Product Development Architecture: Working knowledge of product development architecture.
• Time Management & Attention to Detail: Strong time-management and prioritization skills, coupled with excellent attention to detail.
• Communication Skills: Superior written and verbal communication skills in English, specifically for understanding and communicating product-related items to teams and stakeholders.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with large teams.
• Design Quality: Understanding of design quality standards.

Good to Have:

• SaaS Experience: Experience with SaaS products, including an understanding of SaaS architecture, business models, vendor licensing models, and implementation challenges.
• Domain Knowledge: Knowledge in one or more of the following subjects: FinOps, ITAM, SAM, public cloud cost optimization, ITIL.
• Matrix Organization Experience: Experience working in a matrix organization, influencing work across user experience design and software development functions.