Product Owner - Agile Software Delivery

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

A 3Cloud Product Owner is someone who understands the needs and priorities of the organizational stakeholders, the customers, and the users enough to act as their voice. Someone who communicates to the development team what to build and the order to which to build it. Someone who works with the team to collaboratively craft a compelling product vision and lead the team through execution of that vision. If this is a path that excites you, let’s chat!     

Responsibilities

• Work with customer and stakeholders, agile leaders, architects, tech leads and engineering leadership to develop and maintain product vision
• Inform and execute against product vision, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Work with stakeholders and users to turn initiatives into user stories, and maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with appropriately sized epics and stories.
• Work with internal and external customers to prioritize development requests for the product
• Prioritize feature delivery with product managers and engineering leads and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
• Work closely with the team to develop a clear definition of ready and definition of done.
• Define and articulate personas, user journeys and key success metrics for the product
• Work with development teams to address questions/concerns during sprints
• Lead and communicate the release plan, advocate for the value of the product release
• Constantly re-prioritizes the product backlog based on customers feedback and leadership direction
• Provide clear direction conducive to shipping high quality products.
• Define and collaborate around clear acceptance criteria and validate user stories as done.
• Act as a key player across different ceremonies around the team: daily standup, user story refinement, sprint planning, team demos, and retrospectives.
• Proactively engage with all areas of the organization to identify interdependencies, mutually beneficial goals, and influencing leadership.
• Work closely with the scrum master to set up scalable and reliable ways to measure success and mechanisms to detect issues before they become risks.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in some capacity with a software development team; 3 years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
• Holds a relevant certification from a recognized organization, such as Certified Product Owner
• Creative, analytical, experimental, and a team player.
• Can effectively and confidently communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in written form
• Capable of collaborating with multiple stakeholders both internal and external to the organization.
• Enjoys and excels at problem-solving related to processes, workflow, communication and team dynamics
• Knows how to quantify value and possesses a strong framework to justify backlog prioritization.
• Great communicator that can inspire the team by conveying the vision and business value.
• Working understanding of Scrum, and familiarity with at least one agile scaling framework.
• Experience with common office productivity tools (Office, SharePoint, Outlook, Google Docs)

3Cloud Total Rewards Highlights Include:  

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work! 
• 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay 
• Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days  
• Three medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you! 
• Option for vision and dental coverage 
• 100% employer premium coverage for STD and LTD 
• Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents 
• Option for FSA, HS