Senior Automation Product Owner

We currently have a career opportunity for an Senior Product Owner to join our team. This is a remote opportunity, must be located in United States 

Job Overview:

The Product Owner is a crucial role on an application development team helping to transform a high-level vision into detailed functional requirements, create product user stories, and accept the completed deliverable within a given iteration. That person is the primary contact responsible for ensuring the development team works on the tasks intended to address specific product scope and capabilities.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Contribute as a core member of the product team or scrum team to convey functional requirements, create/groom user stories, prioritize the product backlog, and engage in testing efforts.
• Partner with stakeholders, clients, and product managers to understand the requirements, capabilities, and user experience.
• Ensure engagement and ongoing involvement from the cross functional team (Sales, TechOps, Customer Success, Marketing, etc.) to provide a continuous feedback loop into the product development process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, clients, and product managers to align product roadmaps against known dependencies.
• Define, prioritize, and own the product backlog to reflect the solution scope, vision, and roadmap.
• Conduct the final user acceptance testing and sign-off of a given user story upon completion of development of requirements.
• Participate in daily development team standups and iteration sprint planning sessions to represent the product requirements and respond to any questions regarding the feature set.
• Participate in weekly scrum meetings.
• Organize and facilitate presentations to business stakeholders for product demos.

• Working knowledge of product backlog tools such as Rally and Jira
• Experience with Platforms like Appian, Pega, ServiceNow, RPA is required
• Working knowledge of collaboration suites including Confluence and SharePoint
• Ability to translate high-level business objectives into detailed functional requirements
• Familiarity with UX knowledge and principles is beneficial
• Wealth management, financial services, and mobile applications are a plus
• Understanding of application related projects and changes
• Lead calls with business stakeholders independently
• Ability to break down a product feature into stories
• Experience Identifying and creating artifacts needed to represent the business requirements for a product (example: process flows, stories, interaction diagrams, matrices)
• Experience creating templates for requirements artifacts (example: process flows, stories, interaction diagrams, matrices) that junior resources can leverage to produce deliverables
• You understand how to write complete user stories that can be picked up for development with minimal changes.
• You are able to consult with and collaborate with developers on how to break stories down
• Aptitude to understand product architecture and technical components
• Experience conducting product demos
• Experience conducting product user training
• You understand agile principals and can lead a scrum meeting when necessary

Preferred skills and education:
 

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organiz