Position: Associate Product Owner
Location: NYC
Work location: Hybrid 3 days a week onsite (World Financial Center)
Length: 6 months (possibility of extensions)
Work Authorization: W2/US Citizen
Required Skills/Experience:
- 4+ years Experience in Software Product Ownership
- A good balance of technical knowledge and business insight
- Experience with jira and Github
- Experience with SAFe/agile environment
- Public cloud knowledge ie. AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Ability to decompose abstract information into relevant and detailed business features.
- Ability to separate technology requirements and constraints from core business value.
- Excellent communication and storytelling abilities, capable of engaging and aligning diverse peers.
- Proven team skills, including ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels within an organization, internally and externally.
- University Degree or comparable experience in computer science, engineering, or a related field required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Plusses:
- Policy as a code experience
- Experience with Firewalls and firewall technology like Palo Alto
- Strong knowledge and hands on experience with infrastructure as code
Day to day:
- Ensuring our reference implementations are aligned to the organisations software best practices, guardrails, and standards.
- Protecting and enhancing the Developer Experience (DX)
- Drive market adoption across our global customer journeys.
- Reduce complexity through automation and simplification of provisioning and managing our software experiences.
- Quickly become an expert in the problem space relying on relationships with Subject Matter Expects (SMEs) to ensure development is fully informed.
- Translate the product roadmap into minimum viable product iterations.
- Delivery compelling narratives to align and inspire stakeholders, collaborating teams and our own engineering team.
- Partner across organizational units to drive capability globalization and market adoption of platform capabilities where appropriate.
- Ensure that the appropriate tracking and reporting is in place to track performance post launch to evaluate future investment.
- Enable analytical decision making. Produce Return Off Investment (ROI) analyses and optimization recommendations for roadmap.
- Work closely with the technology team to develop, test, deliver the defined capabilities, and rapidly iterate innovative solutions.
- Identify risks, challenges, opportunities, and business integration needs.
- Perform Demos and Launch Announcements with key team members to demonstrate success and metrics of improvement.
- Understand and apply the latest trends and methodologies.