Sr Product Owner WMS LinOS

Lineage•Novi, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lineage Logistics is seeking a Product Owner to join their Product Management – Warehouse Technologies team, focusing on their Warehouse Management System (WMS) software. The WMS is a foundational component for operating Lineage’s warehouses. The Product Owner will engage with business stakeholders to understand their problems and needs, translating them into functional requirements. They will collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize innovations aligned with enterprise strategic goals. This role requires a self-starter driven by curiosity and a passion for improving business execution and decision-making through technology. Lineage's six values (Safe, Trust, Respect, Innovation, Bold, and Servant Leadership) guide their actions.

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 25% 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 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, estimate/size each user story, and 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.