IDP Automation Product Owner III

Genuine Parts Company • Birmingham, AL

8h

About The Position

SUMMARY: Under limited supervision, the Automation Product Owner is responsible for defining the overall process vision, innovation, and helps guide the product development process within the team. This role identifies the customer, stakeholder, and development team's needs and works with each cross-functional team. The Product Owner gathers feature requests, schedules releases, and coordinates sprints. This role manages the development project from start to finish. JOB DUTIES Manages high-complexity products through the entire lifecycle, and supports decisions regarding enhancements throughout the lifecycle until product End of Life (EOL). Analyzes preferences and requests of customers and defines product features according to customer needs. Reviews and prioritizes backlog for sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies. Reviews user story quality and performance in production environment. Analyzes the impact of proposed solutions across the business, develops use cases to explain business requirements to the IT team, and contributes a business process perspective during design review. Leads the product functional design process based on knowledge of the users and technology. Owns, develops and executes product roadmap. Collaborates with business owners, product scrum team, and stakeholders to establish timelines, workflows, and goals. Assists the scrum and product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint. Participates in design sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs. Proliferates best practices from releases across Portfolio and BU's. Works with users to understand customer experience, at both a tactical and transactional level. Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience or an equivalent combination.
• Strong knowledge of intelligent document processing technologies, including OCR, NLP, and machine learning integration specifically centered around Microsoft Products (Power Automate, Power Apps, PowerBi, and Dataverse).
• Ability to define product requirements and user stories focused on automating document-centric workflows.
• Skilled in managing product backlog and roadmap for IDP solutions to maximize efficiency and accuracy.
• Experience collaborating with business stakeholders to identify document processing automation opportunities.
• Proficient in Agile methodologies and project management tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Ability to evaluate and measure IDP solution performance through data analytics and key metrics.
• Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts in document automation to non-technical stakeholders.
• Capability to lead cross-functional teams including architects, developers, and business analysts.
• Adaptable and continuously learning emerging trends in AI, machine learning, and automation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and synthesize product use data and use that data to drive decisions.
• Ability to lead, motivate and direct a workgroup.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of the product lifecycle, business processes, system development, and process improvements.
• Strong relationship-building skills.
• Ability to foster a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Financial and analytical experience.
• Accurate and precise attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manages high-complexity products through the entire lifecycle, and supports decisions regarding enhancements throughout the lifecycle until product End of Life (EOL).
• Analyzes preferences and requests of customers and defines product features according to customer needs.
• Reviews and prioritizes backlog for sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies.
• Reviews user story quality and performance in production environment.
• Analyzes the impact of proposed solutions across the business, develops use cases to explain business requirements to the IT team, and contributes a business process perspective during design review.
• Leads the product functional design process based on knowledge of the users and technology.
• Owns, develops and executes product roadmap.
• Collaborates with business owners, product scrum team, and stakeholders to establish timelines, workflows, and goals.
• Assists the scrum and product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint.
• Participates in design sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs.
• Proliferates best practices from releases across Portfolio and BU's.
• Works with users to understand customer experience, at both a tactical and transactional level.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Motion Industries offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition, reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level