Senior Product Owner

As a Sr. Product Owner at SADA, you will lead the execution of large-scale client(s) deployments, ensuring projects are completed within scope, on budget, and on time. In this role, you will be responsible for aligning solutions with end-user requirements, managing risks, and resolving issues efficiently. 

Your responsibilities will extend to continuous stakeholder management, ensuring the overall success and strategic alignment of the project. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with UI/UX designers and development teams to ensure that product features are designed and built in alignment with user needs and technical feasibility. You will take full ownership of product delivery, overseeing backlog prioritization, feature development, and the successful implementation of Product Ownership best practices.

The ideal candidate will be energetic, innovative, enthusiastic, sharp, analytical, and eager to embrace responsibility while learning new skills. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and creative team environment. We are looking for individuals who seek long-term growth with SADA.

• Review process flows (Miro) to understand current state business processes
• Participate in deep dive with business stakeholders who may not have technical details
• Create process flows (Miro) to document future state business processes
• Review current state UI/UX designs (Figma), gap analysis, and work closely with the designer to either make changes to existing designs or create new ones that meet business goals
• Create product requirement documents (PRDs), including feature summary, business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Develop short-term and long-term product roadmap
• Collaborate with engineering team to breakdown user stories to tasks
• Ability to adapt to client’s need 

Pathway to Success 

#BeOneStepAhead: Be prepared, work with intentional effort and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.  

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks. 

Expectations

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Training - Ongoing with first-week orientation followed by a 90-day onboarding schedule. Details of the timeline can be shared.

Responsibilities 

• Outstanding proficiency in documentation 
• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements 
• Prioritize needs among scope, budget, and timeframe
• Oversee all stages of product development, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prepared tasks to work on
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Define product vision, road map, and growth opportunities 
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new  functionalities
• Act as primary liaison between teams and stakeholders
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Anticipate user needs
• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Analyze preferences and requests of end users, then translate into future iterations
• Follow our competitors and the industry