Senior Business Consultant/Product Owner

 

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Business Consultant- Product Owner to join our team located in Charlotte, NC. NOTE: This is a strategic, enterprise client, but the requirement is to actually live in Charlotte. You will need to be onsite at least 3 days a week.

 

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 deliver 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.  

Our client is looking to bring on POs to help drive their advisor client portal forward as they grow their client base by 20-30% in the coming years.  We are looking for highly motivated individuals who have a fundamental understanding of the breakdown of features into stories and help to ensure the strategic roadmap is well defined and cascades into daily work.  Strong writing skills are a must, attention to detail and the ability to work effectively in both the business and technical environments.

• Contribute as a core member of the product squad 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.

Technical Skills

• Working knowledge of product backlog tools such as Rally and Jira
• 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

• Education – Associates Degree (Bachelor’s Degree preferred)
• 2 to 4 years of working experience in like field
• Strong communication skills
• Detailed oriented
• Experience in agile and scrum development organizations
• Certification – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) preferred

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 organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $64,974 to $149,880. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential equity or variable bonus programs. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview. 

 

WHO WE ARE

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers’ expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients – the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.