Product Owner (Part-Time)

Job Summary:

The Product Owner in this role serves as a critical bridge between customers and the development team. By engaging with customers, prioritizing development tasks, managing customizations, and ensuring robust testing, they drive the product to better align with customer and user needs. Their broad responsibilities require a unique blend of customer-centric thinking, technical

understanding, and strategic decision-making.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage in direct conversations with customers to understand their needs, pain points, and expectations, ensuring the product aligns with market demands.
• Prioritize product backlog, balancing customer needs, business strategy, and technical considerations to create a clear roadmap for development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish detailed requirements for future releases, translating customer insights into actionable development tasks.
• Actively participate in testing, ensuring that features meet quality standards, customer requirements, and align with the overall product strategy.
• Oversee customizations to the delivered application, working closely with development teams to tailor the product to specific customer needs without compromising core functionality.
• Serve as a liaison between development, support, and customers, ensuring smooth communication and alignment of goals.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and review meetings, ensuring alignment with product goals and timely delivery.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3  years of experience as a Product Owner, Project Manager, or Business Analyst.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and the role of customization in product delivery.
• Proven ability to engage with customers, gather insights and translate them into actionable development tasks.
• Experience with testing methodologies and tools, ensuring quality and alignment with customer needs.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across different teams, including development, sales, support, and customers.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to prioritize tasks, make informed decisions, and drive product strategy.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience on customer delivery teams
• Experience in the Justice industry or domain related to Court Management products.
• Experience with using Azure DevOps for work management
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools.

Work Environment:

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• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate as the employee works in an

office setting, at an individual work station, using telephone and compute.

Avenu Summary: 

Avenu provides local governments with ways to achieve more predictable revenue that supports growth, fuels modernization and ensures compliance with mandated but underfunded programs. Avenu’s revenue enhancement and administrative solutions find and recover license, permit and other taxes that cities and counties struggle to collect. The insights and improved fiscal posture enables governments to deliver expected services and sustain a high quality of life for residents. 

Avenu is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Selection for a position will be made without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, political affiliation, marital status, non-disqualifying physical handicap, and age.