What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Slalom Consulting?
Job Title: Product Owner
What You’ll Do
A Product Owner’s main objective is to determine the best way to build a customer solution. A Product Owner is a member of an agile development team and is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a development team to help maximize end-user value. The role is highly collaborative, requiring regular communication with business stakeholders, developers, architects, operations, and other product teams.
As Slalom Phoenix, we harness the diverse talents of every individual to drive innovative change and advance our clients and communities in the Valley of the Sun. Since launching in 2014, we’ve grown to over 170 advisors, strategists, and engineers supporting across the full spectrum of management and technology consulting. We know great solutions start with great people and proud to be regularly recognized as a Best Place to Work by the Phoenix Business Journal. With local soul backed by global scale, our consultants live and work alongside our clients, gaining experience across a diverse range of growing industries and ultimately, helping to create a better future for all in Arizona.
Product Owners work to understand high-level business requirements by conducting customer interviews, analyzing user data, workshopping with business stakeholders, and/or working with their Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy. They work to distill these high-level requirements into a backlog of easy-to-understand user stories that enable the development team to know what problems need to be solved and how to build the right solution. They also drive the development backlog priority and facilitate tactical planning on how to sequence work based on what will drive end-user value.
What You’ll Bring
- 5-10 years’ experience in business analysis, process improvement, and project management
- Adaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments
- Strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills; a rigorous approach to project management to deliver enterprise-level projects
- Strong leadership skills, including a history of increasing leadership responsibility and career growth
Product Definition
- Has translated business requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement
- Has developed and maintained a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
- Has developed appropriately detailed specifications for product features, so that they are clearly understood by the development teams
- Has supported agile development by writing user stories, acceptance criteria, testing, and analysis and participated in agile ceremonies (e.g., Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Retro, Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases
- Has responded to/researched questions from designers and developers, clarified user stories, etc.
Analysis
- Has worked with QA, analyzed data, and tested results to ensure integrity maintained throughout program lifecycle
- Has supported external research (such as customers, potential solutions, competition) as needed for product analysis
- Has partnered with product management, user experience, technology leaders, and business stakeholders on product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities
About Us
Slalom is a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 41 markets around the world, Slalom's teams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 11,000 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and is regularly recognized by employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud it invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.