What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Fictiv?
The Fictiv product organization is building the core of Fictiv. We use software to solve tough problems in the manufacturing space – supporting engineers, designers, and manufacturing partners who are innovating in cutting-edge industries including autonomous cars, aerospace, consumer electronics and medical devices, to name a few.
As a Product Owner, you will define and deliver software solutions to increase efficiency and throughput for Fictiv, our customers, and/or our manufacturing partners . You will partner with world-class leaders in manufacturing to tackle challenges from managing a globally distributed manufacturing network, to ensuring delivery of the highest quality products, and everything in between. Armed with a deep understanding of the business, you will act as “voice of the customer” to deliver high value software solutions.
This role will report to a Senior Product Manager.
What's In It For You?
Change the way physical products are made
At Fictiv, we are re-thinking manufacturing and supply chains to accelerate hardware development. To do this, we use software to allow our customers to build prototypes faster, get more actionable feedback, and transfer those learnings directly to production manufacturing. You will have a direct role in driving our product and services that are changing the manufacturing industry.
Work with manufacturing experts and inspiring customers
Ever wonder how that widget you just bought was made? Talk with our manufacturing team and you’ll find someone that can take you down to the millimeter. We have some of the best minds that have helped bring your favorite products to life. Our customers work on products that push technological boundaries – from self-driving cars to low-cost water purification systems. Work with them on a regular basis to source products from our distributed manufacturing partner network and deliver them to our innovative customers faster, more efficiently, and at a higher quality.
Grow your career
In this role, you will work alongside some of the brightest and most talented product, design, and engineering professionals in the business. You'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best and grow beyond what you’ve mastered.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Understand user needs through research, testing, and data analysis. Develop conviction around the problems we’re solving and bring those insights to the team.
- Collaborate with design, engineering, and internal business leads across the globe to identify product opportunities, develop hypotheses, and create high-impact solutions for our business.
- Partner with your engineering team in achieving successful outcomes by clearly communicating business needs, requirements, prioritizing backlogs, and removing friction from the product development process
- Champion your team in achieving successful outcomes by clearly communicating priorities and removing friction from their product development process.
- Create trust and transparency by communicating team progress and results to stakeholders; help the organization celebrate successes and learn from failures.
- Contribute toward developing the roadmap for your domain that aligns with company and team OKRs.
- Own gathering detailed product requirements for near-term development efforts related to your areas of ownership.
What You Bring To The Team
- 2 years of experience as a product owner, scrum lead, designer, or business analysis role
- Experience developing software solutions using Agile methodologies and Scrum frameworks
- Skilled problem solver – you can break big problems into smaller, more manageable challenges and you’re comfortable making fast, high quality product decisions.
- Articulate communicator – You can convey customer needs clearly with multiple stakeholders, and you bring those people together to create a differentiated product to serve our customers.
- Data driven - ability to analyze and use data to inform decisions on where to invest and to measure progress towards goals.
- Experience in manufacturing or hardware product development a plus