What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner 3 position at Oak Ridge Associated Universities?
| Category | Information Technology |
APPOINTMENT TYPE: Full-Time Regular
LOCATION: Oak Ridge, TN or Remote (US Based Locations)
ELIGIBLE FOR A SIGN-ON BONUS
SALARY RANGE: $93,392.00 - $129,916.80
PURPOSE:
Serves as a proxy to the customer who understands and analyzes the product's vision and works with the customer to determine what gets built. The Product Owner (PO)/analyst collaborates with customers, stakeholders and developers facilitating product discussions. The PO/analyst has and communicates a big picture vision, writes user stories, makes decisions, negotiates and prioritizes work as well as creates roadmaps/schedules on the product's release. Analyzes complex business problems to be solved with automated systems. Under general direction, the PO/analyst is responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects.
Analysis:
- Advises on alternatives and on the implications of new or revised systems.
- Analyzes project proposals and identifies omissions and errors in requirements.
- Thinks outside the box for solutions and fully understands the overall system vision.
Specification:
- Collaborates with stakeholders and the team to create the product vision, roadmap and release plan.
- Elicits requirements and determines needed outcomes, writes user stories with acceptance criteria, identifies risks, prioritizes user stories, works with the team to solicit solutions to business objectives.
- Specifies minimum viable products with progressive enhancements and present solutions to business problems clearly.
Project Coordination:
- Collaborates heavily with stakeholders and the team in-person and remotely from product vision to implementation.
- Ensures work is prioritized based on customer needs.
- Takes ownership of the product and makes tough decisions when necessary.
- Balances planning ahead with immediate needs of implementation activities and urgent requests.
Other Duties as Assigned:
- Serves in other capacities such as on organizational-wide teams, internal process improvement initiatives, and miscellaneous works assignments.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, Technical Writing or related fields and 5 to 8 years of job-related experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience performing duties as described may be substituted for the minimum requirements.
- Must have demonstrated excellent written and oral skills and have the ability to communicate problem breakdowns.
- Must have experience developing software/technical projects.
- Experience with agile development methodologies or experience as Product Owner.
- Must have strong ability to analyze user, business, and technical problems from a broad range of perspectives.
- Must be able to serve as the single point of contact for critical customers (internal and external) and maintain strong working relationships.
- Must be able to come up to speed quickly on the business case and leverage that knowledge to anticipate future feature requests.
- Must be able to work in a team environment that is highly collaborative.
- Must be able to provide guidance/vision to team members regarding project needs.
- Knowledge of application development, particularly for web enabled applications is preferred.
- Must understand the software development life cycle.
- Must have the ability to make trade-off decisions between possible and desirable, which requires a good sense of what is technically feasible.
- Must possess good negotiation skills and be comfortable saying no in a manner that is well received.
- Product Owner/Scrum Certification, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification is strongly preferred.
*The candidate's starting salary will be determined upon hire and ORAU will use salary survey data, internal comparators, and the candidate's qualifications to determine salary.
TOTAL REWARDS
ORAU has a strategic approach to providing total rewards to employees through a fair, equitable, and competitive total compensation package. The goal of our total rewards system is to integrate compensation, benefits, work-life balance, performance, recognition, development, and career opportunities to attract, engage, and retain the talent required to achieve ORAU's business objectives. The benefit component of our total rewards program supports business goals by offering the following benefits based on employee eligibility:
- Legally required benefits
- Group Health insurance including: Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision
- Retirement plan contribution matching
- Disability insurance
- Group life insurance
- Travel Accident Insurance
- Section 125 reimbursement accounts
- Other voluntary employee paid benefit and insurance offerings
The ORAU total reward package also promotes work-life balance. Mindful of the need for employees to care for themselves and their families, ORAU offers the following additional work-life benefits based on employee eligibility:
- Telework
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Flexible work schedules or compressed work weeks
- Occupational Health and Wellness Programs
- Employee Assistance Program
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. It is the policy of ORAU to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, mental or physical disability, protected veteran's status, or genetic information.
Salary : $93,392 - $129,917
