Product Owner - North America

Location: This role is in North America

Our Story: Litera, headquartered in Chicago, IL, is a fast-growing software company and one of the leading legal technology suppliers in the world. Serving over 90% of the world's largest law firms, our software is used by hundreds of thousands of lawyers every day. As a company recently selected for Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago, we believe professional development, rewards programs, open communication, and transparent leadership all contribute to a unique and open work environment. Our employees are driven, energetic, passionate, and directly impact the future of the company.

Come join a driven team of product professionals dedicated to helping customers and internal stakeholders focus on what matters. We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and energetic product owner to join our team and help push our products to the next level of excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the products your teams create and support.
• Act as the “messenger of the market” from the outside-in to the rest of the organization.
• Analyze various market segments and collaborate with leadership to choose the best ones to pursue.
• Develop and maintain a three-year roadmap for our products to illustrate our vision and plan into the future.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product marketing, sales and customer success on the creation of positioning for your products.
• Create detailed user stories for current and future products based on the market’s problems.
• Facilitate release and sprint planning processes, scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitments for release and sprint delivery.
• Collaborate with teams, monitor and track release and sprint milestones, and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from sunsetting legacy products to prototyping and testing new features/products and ideas.
• Know why we are winning and losing in the market, and drive changes to our product and processes to create improvement.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of our competition, and develop strategies and tactics to reduce the threat.

About you

• At least 4 years of experience as a product manager or product owner in agile
  environments, although more experience is welcome.
• Tech savvy and passionate about building products.
• Comfortable using collaboration and CRM tools such as Teams, M365, JIRA, Confluence and Salesforce.
• You have excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to take complex business requirements and translate them into a form that’s widely understandable.
• Metrics-driven: Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information.
• Experience with best practice agile scrum development and lean startup principles.
• You can think through and advise about how small changes or requests can have strategic impacts across all levels of the business.
• You’re comfortable speaking with a wide range of stakeholders, willing to travel when appropriate, and able to seek out conversations and discussions yourself.
• You are self-motivated with curiosity about how our customers work, and passionate about delivering great user experiences.
• You’re comfortable balancing competing priorities while working with and solving problems for customers. You don’t shy away from awkward situations or being clear when you can’t commit to something.
• You have attained a bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Bonus if you have experience in the legal or legal technology industries, especially experience with legal Document Management Systems and/or M365.

What Sets us Apart?

• Work with a team that has a proven track record
• Our company growth will challenge, and encourage you to broaden your skills
• Generous allocation of paid time off, and flexible work hours
• Available merit-based cash bonus plan
• Many opportunities for rewards and recognition