Senior Product Owner

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Product Owner

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $97,100.00 - $161,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

Cox Automotive is looking for a Senior Product Owner to join the vAuto team based in Austin, TX.

The Senior Product Owner will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive approach to deliver one or more products, capabilities, services, or enhancements in accordance with the product roadmap.

The Senior Product Owner works with Product Managers, Business Leaders, and 1-2 cross-functional Scrum team to deliver the product to the Client. Manages the overall effort to deliver products, capabilities, services and enhancements using the strategic vision as well as established key performance indicators. Understands the functionality and determines the release sequence. Prioritizes and maintains the product backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the development team.

Planning:

• Prioritizes and manages backlog and implementation, ensures product execution meets strategy and requirements.
• Refines features into user stories and story acceptance criteria.
• Partners with Product Managers to understand and influence product strategy and roadmaps.

Development:

• Supports 1-2 scrum teams to build, enhance and manage one or more products, capabilities or services.
• Facilitates / collaborates with developers, QA, and Scrum Master(s) to help ensure the implementation team’s progress and success.

Sales and Client Engagement:

• Engages with Clients as a Subject Matter Expert to understand performance and needs of the Client for in-market products and performance requirements.
• Partners with sales, sales operations, client solutions, and client marketing teams to communicate product performance and value for in-market products.

Evaluation:

• Assesses product performance against KPIs and makes adjustments/ corrections to improve performance.
• Regularly communicates performance of the product/experience to stakeholders and the organization.
• Aggregates and conceives ideas for enhancing product performance and achieving product success/KPIs.

Analytical Thinking:

• Ability to apply effective analytical techniques and tools. Analyzes issues, determines root cause, and creates/compares alternative solutions that are in the best interest of the business.
• Approaches situations by defining the issue, determining its significance, and identifying the forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand. Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of data and draws conclusions.

Project Administration & Management:

• Ability to use methods, practices, and tools for managing projects. Utilizes project management tools for estimation, dependency identification, conflict identification, task assignments, documentation, and reporting. Documents project meetings, including status reports on deliverables and next steps.
• Skilled in developing cost-benefit analyses, tracking, and reviewing actual versus planned costs. Ensures project-related problems are surfaced, documented, and reported to appropriate team members, and have ownership for resolution.

Requirements Analysis:

• Elicit, analyze and document business requirements.  Engages with the customers, users, and other stakeholders to gather requirements. Utilizes appropriate methods, tools, and techniques for requirements analysis. Challenges, and manages conflicts and expectations associated with requirements analysis.

System and Technology Integration:

• Advanced knowledge of system features and the ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases, and platforms. Works with existing interfaces as well as integration and migration plans within own area and across aligned/associated areas.
• Explores major issues and considerations for successful system integration. Plays an active role in current and planned integration efforts