Product Owner [Talents Bench]

Metal Toad
Remote

About The Position

The mission for this role is to guide our clients to the best strategic product decisions for their unique organization and business goals. Product Owners at Metal Toad connect and translate between client business needs and technology solutions. You speak business values and are fluent in user stories. You bring a global view of development processes to your work, assisting in the creation of strategic vision and program development.

Requirements

  • Agree with our Corporate Values Statement.
  • Believes in the company's mission: to help people
  • Believes in the principles of open source
  • Advanced to fluent English communication skills are essential for this role
  • 3+ years experience leading software applications and/or providing strategic advisory services and account management services
  • Bachelor's degree or currently enrolled in Design, Administration, Marketing, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Proven ability to build relationships with a diverse set of people, including senior-level executives, R&D, product management, legal, finance, sales, and marketing experts
  • Can clearly and concisely synthesize/communicate complex requirements and/or organizational problems and propose solutions while working through complicated, matrixed decision paths
  • Professional use of technology backlog processes and backlog tools, like Jira, ClickUp, and Asana
  • Ability to confidently lead a group in whiteboarding, concepts, and prioritization exercises
  • Ability to lead cross-functional business and technical teams to provide timely issue resolution

Nice To Haves

  • PSPO Certification or CSPO Certification

Responsibilities

  • Excels in striking a balance in focus between engineering, business strategy, and human relationships.
  • Understand how to prioritize work effort and communicate that to the team.
  • Maintaining awareness of both the external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments, and standards.
  • Maintain a positive and respectful tone in all interactions.
  • Work with the development team on the most elegant way to architect the solution driven by your intimate understanding of client needs and requirements.
  • Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
  • Identify and articulate client business needs and opportunities for growth.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor for client’s technology strategy, including product planning, strategic roadmapping, and release planning.
  • Act as a Product Owner developing, maintaining, and refining a backlog in Jira.
  • Serve on a scrum team, representing business needs to the developers and ensuring tickets are completed successfully.
  • Surface product risks and identify tactics to address them.
  • Balance mastery of the technological craft with your empathy for clients.
  • Serve as a guide and advisor to clients to move them forward.
  • Educate and align the development teams on client requirements and serve as the client’s proxy with the development teams during the build cycles.

Benefits

  • Fully remote company
  • Work from home
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