Product Owner

Company	First American
Location	Orange, CA, USA
Salary	$109700 – $146200
Type	Full-Time
Degrees	Bachelor’s
Experience Level	Mid Level, Senior

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline, business, or a related field.
4+ years of experience as a product owner in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to nontechnical and technical audiences.
Strong foundation in data technologies such as data warehouses, data lakes, Snowflake, PowerBI, Tableau, SQL.
Outstanding presentation, communication, and information-sharing skills.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Working experience with common product management tools, such as Jira.

Responsibilities

Set the strategic direction for data and analytic products.
Prioritize and manage the development of data analytics products by working with data teams and engineers.
Work closely with stakeholders across the organization to identify key challenges and opportunities where data can provide solutions.
Create and maintain a product roadmap that prioritizes features and improvements based on data insights.
Gather and analyze data usage and customer feedback to continuously improve the product.
Communicate product vision, strategy, and progress to stakeholders at all levels.
Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog from the product roadmap and strategic portfolio backlog.
Understand and communicate business direction and vision to the team.
Ensure wireframes, prototypes, or workflows are created and signed off by stakeholders before any work is done by the development team or vendor.
Regularly interact with stakeholders to understand business value and prioritize work that delivers value to the customer.
Monitor vendor’s application release calendar and add updates/upgrades to the product roadmap.
Review release notes for impacts, enhancements, bug fixes, and new usable product capabilities.
Regularly communicate with the product manager to ensure the product roadmap aligns with business goals.
Collaborate with the product manager to ensure product features and enablers support strategic business goals.
Prioritize the product backlog to align with enterprise priorities.
Ensure sprint goals are set and communicated to the team before the sprint starts.
Properly decompose features into user stories through story mapping.
Represent the product team to business owners, clients, and end users.
Work with analysts and other product team members to build subject matter expertise of the overall product.
Lead the team in taking ownership of all aspects of the product.
Write well-defined product user stories with clear and testable acceptance criteria.
Groom the product backlog and refine user stories to communicate value, readying for the upcoming Program Increment.
Own the end-to-end release of new features from ideation through testing, acceptance, release, and validation.
Ensure product documentation, release notes, support guides, and user guides are created and maintained.

Preferred Qualifications

Industry certifications: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) are highly desired.
Experience stepping into new and unfamiliar markets and business environments and learning to identify and translate the requirements of those environments into a coherent product vision.
Creative thinking with good interpersonal skills and relationship building with team members.
Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver a common goal.