Product Owner - LinOS

Lineage•Novi, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lineage is seeking a Product Owner to join their Product Management – Warehouse Technologies team, specifically to support their warehouse execution system, LinOS. LinOS is a platform that orchestrates warehouse operations, controlling hardware and managing applications used by warehouse team members. It powers automated warehouses and improves efficiency in manual warehouses by assigning and routing tasks. The Product Owner will work with business and technology stakeholders to translate problems and needs into business requirements, becoming a subject matter expert in specific warehouse operational domains like Dock Operations or Fulfillment. The role involves understanding process flows, pain points, and improvement opportunities to ensure Services accurately orchestrate warehouse execution. The LinOS Service integrates components within the LinOS ecosystem and tracks the state of warehouse execution across various operational modes. The Product Owner will collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize innovations aligned with enterprise strategic goals and is expected to be a self-starter driven by curiosity and a passion for improving business execution through technology. The company's six values are Safe, Trust, Respect, Innovation, Bold, and Servant Leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s (BA or BS) in business, computer science, or related field
2+ years previous experience as a product owner or business analyst
Domain knowledge in logistics or supply chain
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization and deliver results to a non-technical audience
In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, SDLC
Technical understanding of products and up to date on industry standards and best practices
Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
Close attention to detail and the ability to work to a high standard
Ability to think strategically with supporting analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with ambiguity
Excellent organizational skills and ability to function in a fast paced, highly visible and fast-changing high growth environment
Ability to travel 20% of the time for warehouse visits & learnings, planning events, and design sessions

Nice To Haves

Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence), process diagram tools, and/or WMS applications is a plus
Experience with SQL and Database Management Systems
Experience with observability concepts such as logging and monitoring with tools such as Datadog
Experience with Java-based web services
Experience with KPI development and analysis

Responsibilities

Prioritizes the needs / incoming requests of stakeholders while considering value, scope, budget, resources, dependencies, and time
Prioritizes user stories to deliver the highest value each sprint and ensure that OKRs and deliverable timelines are met
Create product requirement documentation that clearly articulates the problem to be solved, constraints, and desired outcome and subsequently maintains it with additions, amendments, and removals of functionality
Defines and clearly articulates problem statements and acceptance criteria (business requirements) for each Epic and User Story
Defines the vision and objectives with metrics for each sprint
Plans upcoming work and supports team capacity for quarterly forecasting
Creates, updates, and removes epics and/or user stories in the product backlog
Maps dependencies between initiatives, epics and stories
Participates in sprint ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives
Reviews and signs off on completed user stories and epics
Approves transition to build and release phases within the product lifecycle
Plans functional demos with stakeholders as needed
Collaborates with engineers to answer questions and make connections, while clearly explaining the purpose, problem statement and requirements
Collaborates with engineers to estimate/size each user story
Collaborates with engineers to define high-level solution approaches for stakeholder needs and data-driven explorations
Anticipates the needs of key stakeholders by maintaining a deep understanding of what they do and want
Communicates expectations and gains buy in from stakeholders
Communicate and inform Delivery team partners status of development progress
Create communications to stakeholders about product releases