Product Owner

Job Description

We are seeking a skilled and versatile Product Owner/Business Analyst to join our Software Development team. In this role, you will be responsible for translating business requirements into clear product specifications, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring successful product delivery. As the bridge between business and technology, you will play a critical role in driving the product roadmap, managing priorities, and delivering exceptional products that meet our customers' needs.

Minimum Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including business users, customers, and development teams, to elicit and document product requirements and user stories.
• Work closely with the product management team to define and maintain the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Facilitate Agile development processes, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and prioritization, to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality products.
• Advocate for a user-centered approach, conducting user research, analyzing user feedback, and contributing to the design and optimization of user interfaces.
• Create comprehensive product documentation, including functional specifications, user guides, and release notes, to support development, QA, and customer success teams.
• Engage with cross-functional teams, including development, QA, design, and marketing, to align priorities, manage expectations, and drive successful product outcomes.
• Collaborate with the QA team to define acceptance criteria, conduct user acceptance testing, and ensure the delivery of high-quality products that meet customer expectations.
• Lead and support by working hand and glove with business development, sales, marketing, and all commercialization efforts to ensure the product is presented pristine to the public and private sectors in rapid development and deployment environments.
• Identify areas for process improvement, propose and implement solutions, and contribute to enhancing the overall product development lifecycle.

Necessary Key Skills

• Take the lead on projects with minimal oversight.
• Lands into complex problem spaces and proactively engages with teammates to drive towards shared understanding and clarity.
• Bring expertise and experience to the team and makes others around them better by sharing best practices, ideas, and feedback.
• Naturally curious and proactively asks questions to increase understanding of customer needs and business strategy.
• Works to develop empathy for customers and is a strong advocate for their needs.
• A systems thinker – loves exploring how different parts of a complex system fit together and can be made to work seamlessly.
• Advanced communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences (e.g., written, verbal, and presentation).
• Demonstrated versatility and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative and open-minded.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Must actively demonstrate quantitative and qualitative skills daily.

About the Organization

Eccalon provides global solutions to the most challenging technological issues of the 21st-century, and our evolving portfolio spans five major markets: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Aerospace & Defense, Material Sciences, Advance Manufacturing, Sports Science, Biotechnology, and Health & Life Sciences.

Why Join Us?

Eccalon's Executives foster a supportive work environment allowing our teams to thrive, and have a fierce dedication to innovation, security, and people. Our culture is built on inclusion, teamwork, trust, and we are committed to offering career advancement opportunities to all employees. Encouraging a healthy and balanced life, we offer an extensive benefits package to support the wellness of our employees and their families.

EEO Statement

Eccalon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. EEO is the law.