Senior Product Owner

About the role

The Senior Specialist, Product Owner, is a crucial role that fosters the strategic partnership between business and technology. In this role, you will be responsible for collaborating, communicating, negotiating, and developing requirements and related customer value through business rules for existing and new software solutions in the market.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate, communicate, negotiate, and develop requirements and related customer value through business rules for existing and new software solutions in the market.
• Leverage deep knowledge of multiple services, initiatives, and work with other subject matter experts in the definition, development, testing, training, implementation, and support of functional requirements from product initiatives.
• Practice Agile Methodologies for development, serving as a standing leader in the Agile scrum teams.
• Manage multiple initiatives at once, using creative and innovative methods for analysis, design, documentation, and tool selection.
• Coach junior team members and provide cross-organizational support, as needed.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in IT, business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of overall experience in the education or technology industry, with directly related experience in soliciting and defining requirements for mission-critical business applications.
• Experience with Agile Methodology as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
• Embedding quality controls in work processes to assure uninterrupted operation.
• Analyzing data for composing targeted and concise requirements and translating strategic and tactical goals.
• Demonstrated ability to exemplify strong collaboration, solicit, define, and write business requirements from research, customer, market, and internal feedback to translate into user stories, have product knowledge and its impact to other product(s), identify tradeoffs in decisions and drive resolution of challenges across the organization, model solutions for a business process, demonstrate proficiency in working with Agile principles, processes, driving decision making, and aligning the team/organization on goals and objectives, communicate and negotiate effectively and confidently with internal stakeholders from all levels of the organization, and external stakeholders to represent the product, department, and company, manage and prioritize multiple initiatives to ensure successful, timely completion and issue-resolution, working with Microsoft Office Suite, and/or other collaboration tools, excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication, and effective presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Must live within a commutable distance to Herndon, VA (preferred) or in one of the Clearinghouse's approved States for hiring purposes.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• We do not intend to sponsor external applicants for work visas, and may consider sponsorship only if no qualified candidates can be found who are authorized to work without sponsorship.
• Must be at least 18 years old.