IT Product Owner - Digital
Duluth Trading Company•Mount Horeb, WI
•$88,000 - $125,000•Hybrid
About The Position
The Product Owner is responsible for leading the strategy, roadmap, prioritization and adoption of features related to a specific product within DTC’s technology stack. This role serves as a crucial link between business and IT, translating business vision to technology implementations that facilitate delivery of company goals. The objective measures of success are effective collaboration with business stakeholders, maintaining a value-driven product roadmap and effective release management. At this level, the Product Owner should be able to manage moderately complex products/systems, give guidance to more junior Product Owners and contribute to overall Product Ownership best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ Years of experience
- Product Ownership or Business Analysis experience with a digital storefront and ecommerce channel
- Proven track record of managing moderately complex digital products, platforms, or system integrations
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to say "no" constructively while maintaining positive relationships
- Certified Product Owner
- Working in an Agile environment and Agile best practices
- Familiarity with product management tools (e.g., Jira, Notion, Lucid)
- Google Workspace Suite - Including but not limited to Meet, Sheets, Docs, Slides and Gmail
- Working with data warehouse, analytics or marketing technology solutions
- Delivery Leadership of cross-functional teams
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship
Nice To Haves
- Certified Scrum Master Preferred
- Experience with data architecture, integrations or data governance is a plus
- Familiar with analytic technologies and techniques such as data warehousing, customer data hygiene, performance dashboards, marketing automation and data mining
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to shape vision and craft the roadmap for a specific product within DTC’s technology stack
- Own, groom and facilitate refinement of the product backlog, using customer and business value to prioritize features
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define the business case for suggested enhancements and incorporate into scoping and prioritization
- Lead sprint ceremonies with the engineering team
- Define epics, features and user stories for the product backlog
- Partner with Engineering to refine and split user stories, refine the backlog and understand downstream system and operational impacts
- Effectively manage release scope and ensure changes are communicated and approved by appropriate stakeholders
- Work closely with other Product Owners to identify product dependencies, ensure coordinated development and delivery efforts
- Maintain continuous communication with stakeholders and developers throughout the development, testing and rollout process
- Maintain project documentation repository and release notes library
- Track against and provide relevant project status reports regularly
- Validate that delivered features meet the defined acceptance criteria and align with the intended business value
- Serve as a product evangelist, identifying and promoting best practices, staying current on technological advances and making recommendations for tool/system usage to drive organizational growth & innovation
- Act as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and IT delivery teams to ensure alignment on expectations and deliverables
- Drive and contribute to the continuous improvement of Product Ownership best practices, tools, and Agile methodologies within the organization
- Manage fast-changing priorities in a dynamic environment
Benefits
- Multiple Medical plan options
- Dental & Vision plans
- Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account including company contributions
- Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D
- Company paid Short-Term Disability
- Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Long-Term Disability and Supplemental Life Insurance
- 401(k) Employer Match
- Parental Leave
- Paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day
- Paid Time Off: take it as you need it policy for exempt employees
- Daily pay available
- 40% Employee Discount
- Flexible Fridays
- Onsite fitness center
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
