Product Owner (CC Records)

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As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

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The product owner is responsible for the ownership and managing of the backlog for their assigned value stream(s), contributes to the product roadmap, understands customer and market needs for the CommandCentral Records product. The product owner works in partnership with the product manager and relies on their technical knowledge and background to define user stories and acceptance criteria, engage with assigned Engineering teams, and groom the backlog. The ability to deeply understand technical architecture, define engineering behind features, and to translate high level customer functional requirements into technical for development is a crucial skill. In addition, the ability to describe the impact of technical requirements to customers, non-technical sales, and support resources is a must.

This position will be responsible for filling the agile product owner role for the CommandCentral Records product. In this role, the product owner champions the need of the user, customer, and other stakeholders throughout the development process to ensure that what is delivered meets the goals, objectives, and desired outcomes of the project. To be successful, one must manage multiple projects simultaneously, at various stages of their development, from idea to completed feature.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with UI/UX teams and work in close partnership with research and design colleagues

• Actively involved in initiative and epic refinement as an integral member of the Product Management team

• Responsible for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog, including user stories, defects, and research spikes

• Review and prioritize the backlog as part of the preparatory work for release and sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs

• Contribute to the roadmap

• Involved in release planning, reviewing vision, and content presentations to assigned engineering team(s)

• Collaborate with team to detail user stories with acceptance criteria

• Maintain proper flow of features, user stories, and acceptance criteria in the backlog

• Agree on accepted story completion, including validating that the story meets acceptance criteria and that it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD)

• Understand the scope of needed research spikes and collaborate with Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures

• Collaborate with team and any other stakeholders in the team demo

• Participate in the appropriate agile ceremonies

Desired Skills

• Agile/Scrum experience

• Firm understanding of software design, user interaction, and user interface design

• Deep technical knowledge in software development methodologies

• Experience utilizing product and project management tools such as Aha!, Jira, and DevOps

• Technical skills and knowledge of Cloud services and development

• Align with the enhanced focus on prioritizing and developing important aspects of mission critical products, such as availability, reliability, and stability

• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written

• Polished presentation skills for internal and external audiences

• Proactive, enthusiastic attitude toward challenging problems

• Capable of quickly evaluating and prioritizing new projects alongside customer feedback

• Strong ability to take complex user requirements and distill them into a format that is intuitive and clear to developers as well as non-technical staff

• Ability to research and analyze project requirements from various stakeholders

• Build consensus among stakeholders

• Ability to work independently and as part of a diverse team spread across multiple continents in a fast-moving environment

• Ability to multi-task among various assignments

• Experience in Law Enforcement / Public Safety is a plus

• Understanding of product management and product ownership principles

This position is subject to working in high security areas governed by the US Department of Justice's "Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy" and therefore requires successfully passing a more stringent fingerprint background check administered by Motorola Solutions Inc. customers.

We are open to candidates working remotely located in the US.

Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

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• Bachelor's Degree

• 3 years of progressive experience in product ownership, product planning, product management, business analysis, or engineering

• Must be able to obtain background clearance as required by government customer

Our U.S.Benefitsinclude:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Visionbenefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• GenerousPaidTime Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• PaidParental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.