Product Owner

TransPerfect•Kansas City, MO

About The Position

The product-owner for GlobalLink Vasont Inspire is responsible for customer and competitive research, describing and assigning features to specific releases, ensuring that development teams have clarity on development objectives, and creating the marketing collateral that supports the product’s position in the market. The product-owner is also a sales engineer, responsible for demonstrating the product to prospects, customers, sales executives, and management; also, responsible for showing how GlobalLink Vasont Inspire’s capabilities and roadmap align with customer use-cases and needs.

Requirements

Baccalaureate degree; or, equivalent work experience in component content management
Demonstrated business acumen in Content Management
Developing, communicating, and measuring key product indictors
Proficient in working with executive leadership and teams in other departments
Proficient in both oral and written communication to both executive management and members of other departments
Proficient in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software, particularly Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

Manage the product roadmap, including creating the roadmap, reviewing it with stakeholders, adjusting priorities of roadmap items in response to feedback, and aligning product-backlog items (PBIs) and priorities with roadmap projections
Create customer-facing collateral, such as white papers, product brochures, and e-mail messages, to attract interest in GlobalLink Vasont Inspire.
Conduct use-case meetings with account managers to correlate feedback with PBIs; identify, create, and ensure reporting on enhancements and bugs
Respond to questions raised by Engineers in design meetings; devise solutions to issues and describe them to Engineering
Prepare for development and release “sprints”; duties include identifying PBI’s for refinement, conducting post-Sprint retrospectives, setting Sprint goals and vision, reviewing documentation and test reports, participating in daily Sprint meetings as needed; make go/no-go decisions about software releases
Help sales executives to quality opportunities and conduct discovery calls; provide guidance to sales executives about the suitability of GlobalLink Vasont Inspire to a prospect’s use-cases and requirements
Demonstrate GlobalLink Vasont Inspire, which includes converting a prospect’s content into XML, providing “Harmonizer” analysis of a prospect’s content, helping prospects to articulate their technical and financial decision criteria, conducting proofs-of-concept experiences, developing formal and detailed proposals, generating customer-facing pricing
Ensure that new GlobalLink Vasont Inspire customers connect smoothly with their assigned account mangers
Follow-up with sales executives on new and existing opportunities
Assist executive management in training TransPerfect sales executives on selling GlobalLink Vasont Inspire and related Content Services