What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Photon?
Greetings everyone,
We are looking for an experienced Product/Program Owner to join our Digital Engineering Division.
Who are we?
For the past 20 years, we have powered many Digital Experiences for the Fortune 100. Since 1999, we have grown from a few people to more than 4000 team members across the globe that are engaged in various Digital Modernization.
For a brief 1 minute video about us, you can check https://youtu.be/uJWBWQZEA6o.
Position: Product/Program Owner
Location: Springfield, MO(onsite)
Full Time & W2 Only
Primary Skills
Agile practitioner, Certification
Product management skills, product backlog grooming
Experience in 2 or more business domains, preferably ecommerce and mobility
Ecommerce and retail product development first-hand experience
Auto Industry Parts Retailing (After Market Customization, Maintenance & Repair) exposure will be a BONUS – Companies that do this in the US – Transamerican Auto Parts, Autozone, Advance Auto Parts, Genuine Parts Company
Job Description
Have proven track record for 5-7 years as a product manager
Experience in Retail domain and Auto Industry
Has experience in creating detailed product backlog basis the client requirement walkthrough or requirement workshop
Has worked with technical architects, tech leads, business system analysts and other stakeholders to define and groom the product backlog items
Has very good understanding of JIRA/Confluence, ADO tools, work experience with macros and has documentation experience
Can work with minimal directions, define “Definition of done”, success criteria and follow-up with team to map it to JIRA/Confluence stories
Has good understanding of multi-tenant architecture, microservices and well-versed with API related documentation
Has hands on experience on Postman or Swagger tool, can read API request/response, error message and API spec documentation
Should be able to participate in UAT, BUAT and Post-production bug verification along with dev and QA team
Work alongside project managers and program managers to define and refine the product backlog as per the client preferences
Should be able to document the technical requirements as feature/sub-feature and EPIC and give detailed walkthrough to dev team for the implementation purpose
Create business case, project goal and analysis for new product development
Should be able to work with PM/DMs to create and manage daily and weekly status reports
Required Skills
Have good understanding of ecommerce and retail products
Should have managed and developed some ecommerce products as Product Manager
Have experience in work with diverse team and delivering with tight deadlines
Should have good communication skills and technical skills to understand
Knowledge of Aha project management tool, OmniGraffle, Draw.io Capability to understand the new or existing system and business process.
Standardise the requirements gathered across the teams and conceptualise application workflow.
Participate in project planning, execution, and tracking.
Research and come up with solutions for the business problems in co-ordination with other teams
Identifying options for potential solutions and assessing them for both technical and business suitability.
