Product Owner

 Requisition #: 19788
Functional Area:  Product Management; Business Analysis; Product Development; Project Management
Employment Type:  Full-Time
Work Options:  Remote / Work from Home in the US #LI-Remote
Work Hours:  Standard Business Hours (Central Time)

Position Summary

As a Product Owner in J. J. Keller's Managed Services area, you will serve as a key member of the product management team, responsible for driving the effectiveness of agile team(s) to complete outstanding requirements through preparedness and subject matter expertise. The product owner is responsible for carrying out the near-term vision and roadmap established by the product manager. The product owner defines the ‘what’, ‘tells’ impactful stories and prioritizes the team backlog to streamline the execution of product priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features and components the team is responsible for. In this role, you are the source of truth for the development team on priorities, disruptors, and ultimate acceptance of sprint items.

 

Our clients partner with J. J. Keller® Managed Services to relieve their organization of time-consuming compliance management and recordkeeping for their drivers, vehicles and employees. By partnering with us, our clients have more time to focus on their day-to-day operations. Learn more about the DataSense® Platform, DOT Drug & Alcohol Program Management Service, and Training Program Management Service:  https://www.jjkellerdatasense.com/ and www.jjkeller.com/professional-services/managed-services

 

This role can work 100% remote in the US, on-site at our Corporate Campus in Neenah, WI or hybrid. Our organization is over 80% remote, so you can join and be part of a remote-first team.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain, prioritizes, and sequences the product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Assists with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.  Works with product analysts on full preparation of PBI’s that equates to targeted sprint scope.
• Effectively verifies and validates requirements; ensures that all requirements support the delivery of business value, fulfills goals and objectives, and meets a stakeholder need.
• Conveys the vision and goals at the beginning of every release and sprint.
• Works with the development resources and QA resource to facilitate meaningful testing with the goal of ultimate acceptance.
• Represents the customer to the development team.
• Participates in the daily scrums, sprint planning, release planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Inspects the product progress at the end of every sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work. 
• Works with Dev Manager if a sprint is determined that a disruption or material change in direction is required within a sprint / epic.
• Maintains relationships with the business and client to understand current and changing needs.
• Actively involved in activities to support general availability of released items.
• Serves as primary point person internally and externally for the team for updates and feedback.
• Completes high level designs for material epic level features, partnering with product manager and UI/UX.
• Identifies and maintains the metrics / reporting needed to support the assigned product area.
• Prepares and updates documentation to include functional specifications, testing procedures, end user documentation, etc.
• Prepare and conduct end-user or business user training.
• Prepares and participates in requirements and process documentation for products, systems and processes.
   

Qualifications

 

Experience

• 3 years’ experience in a product analyst / product owner role with proven experience driving agile teams with product requirements.
• Report writing/query tools experience with SQL or PowerBI.
• Project leadership experience required.

 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in business-related field.
• In lieu of degree, will consider an additional 4 years of directly related experience.

 

Other Requirements

• Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to quickly develop an in-depth knowledge and understand the relationship between opportunities, business needs and J. J. Keller cap