Product Owner

Key Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Able to verify U.S. employment eligibility using Form I-9
• Able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance and Common Access Card
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a technology related field
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience working as a BA or PO for a software organization, preferably in software development
• Able to travel 2-4 weeks per year

Qualifications

• Communicate excellently with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the organization
• Ability to envision, gather requirements, document, and clearly communicate end-to-end solutions
• Skilled in creating process flows and swim lane diagrams
• Forge relationships with various business and technical team members and managers
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability to deliver planned results
• Detail-oriented
• Able to thrive and make decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Experience with projects involving APIs and EDIs is a strong advantage
• Experience working with Department of Defense is a plus
• Experience and knowledge of HMMS is a plus
• Experience working with Environmental and/or Logistics Processes is a plus
• Experience working with DevOps is a plus
• SQL skills is a plus

Product Summary

The HMMS Suite of products is used to perform cradle to grave tracking on hazardous material inventory and hazardous waste management.

Major Duties

• Work with key project stakeholders and the customer to understand the overall business vision for a project and translate that into actionable objectives
• Provide a communication conduit between the business and technical community by interpreting and translating business needs into technical requirements
• Comprehend and document requirements from multiple stakeholders and conceptualize solutions
• Develop deep understanding of current systems and processes and analyze impact of changes as new solutions are introduced to the environment
• Collaborate directly with internal management, sales, QA, and development teams
• Collaborate with other product owners to manage inter-dependencies across the product suite
• Assist in developing and validating test plans
• Develop and provide product presentations and/or training to existing customer, and potential customers
• Manage the product or project throughout its lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
• Collect, manage, and maintain traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases
• Perform product demos to customers and develop relationships in key clients (if B2B)
• Lead the virtual product team to ensure delivery of agreed objectives

Specific Job Duties

• Actively work directly with the development team
• Serve as the customer representative in all team meetings
• Develop personas and related product capabilities
• Write Epics, Features and User Stories
• Design preliminary mock-ups and work closely with the team UX Designer
• Lead Grooming and Story Pointing Sessions
• Participate in product planning and forecasts with the product management team
• Attend daily stand-ups and other status meetings
• Maintain and report product status such as burn up/burn down and velocity charts
• Participate in sprint retrospectives with the agile team
• Maintain a release backlog and focus on product deliverables
• Actively engage with product team and management
• Take direction from management on roadmap priorities
• Provide status updates and report any blockers or concerns
• Prepare and present project status slides
• Collaborate with other product team members and customer care unit
• Participate in daily production support calls
• Help to troubleshoot and triage production related tickets

Client Services Capabilities

• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to learn client specific processes, terminology, systems, and unique requirements by various business groups
• Sense of urgency due to cross-functional and fast-moving nature of operations, Big picture thinking, prioritization (comfortable with multi-tasking)
• Ability to work independently as well as cross-functionally, with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Working Conditions

Work is generally performed inside an office environment or remotely.

Training

The individual may be required to complete training courses identified by Sphera and/or the government site as essential to job performance and may include (but not limited to) the following: HMMS Suite Training, Sphera Corporation Training, Government Required Training.

Pay

$99,000.00 - $157,000.00 + Eligible for Variable Compensation Plan

Benefits

Commensurate with relevant qualifications and experience

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Flexible Working Schedule