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At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

The Lead Product Owner will join the Measurement, Accounting, & Scheduling Product Team within the Midstream IT Natural Gas & NGL Digital Products Line. As a Lead Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in driving the strategic direction and delivery of innovative solutions driving the evolution and reimagining of the measurement, accounting, and scheduling capabilities for NG&NGL and adjacent Midstream business segments. This role will be expected to identify, collect, and evaluate new technology ideas, strategic extensions, or enhancements to existing products and/or services to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve goals in revenue growth and market share. The product owner manages product lifecycles, including intent, definition, design, planning, development, prototyping and testing. Applies design thinking techniques (e.g. user stories, wireframing, prototyping) to define product features. Will work with internal and external partners, vendors, and supplies to select and customize technology products and/or services.

• Responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences, accountable for a complex/ critical product, or multiple related products (within a product family/portfolio).
• Has accountability for leading the development of product roadmaps, prioritizing feature releases, and aligning them with business objectives. Drives cross-functional collaboration to gather insights, prioritize initiatives, and plan releases effectively.
• Collaborates closely with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development, ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
• Engages senior cross-functional leaders and proactively addresses and resolves issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, analytics, and customer support teams.
• Organizes stakeholder priorities and works with teams in order to align needs with resources ensuring cadence with customer value, business value, and strategic fit.​ Consults with the team during planning and grooming sessions and signs off on solutions.
• Prioritizes product backlog, processes, and release plan (for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product) and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum team, across other lines of business.
• Works with other teams, ensures team is aligned around similar goals and objectives / cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
• Delivers product innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap), and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
• Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.​
• Identifies common client pain points and opportunities and defines right solutions to address; captures stakeholder concerns and implements refinements; serves as the voice of the client, bringing that perspective back to internal stakeholders; serves as an Agile product develop champion across department and/or company.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or equivalent work experience
• Product Owner certification required; Product Management certification preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant product owner experience required.
• Experience in Natural Gas and NGL Measurements, Operations Accounting, or Scheduling preferred
• Experience leading deployment and enhancement of Quorum Software Products such as FLOWCAL, TIPS, and TESTit is preferred.

Agile Methodology – Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.

Authentic Communicator – Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.

Backlog Management -