Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner

Job type - 12 months Contract

Location - Plano Texas-onsite

Responsibilities

• Build, prune, and prioritize the product backlog based on customer needs and technical feasibility in collaboration with engineering lead, adapting to changing priorities and account for adjustments to maximize customer value
• Gather and analyze feedback/metrics to inform future road mapping and ensure alignment with the product's vision and strategy
• Collaborate with development team to break down items into executable stories that articulate business and customer value
• Develop and implement data-driven product strategies aligned with objectives and user needs
• Identify and address risks, threats, or opportunities that could impact product's success, notifying and escalating issues when necessary
• Define product requirements that align with the product vision and strategy, and communicate them effectively to the development team
• Define user experience flows, and ensure user stories are ready to work, including having details and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with engineering team members to bring visibility through metrics to best cloud cost optimization practices
• Operate in a highly iterative Agile development environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a product owner, developing roadmaps, managing backlogs, managing stakeholders, and contributing to product strategy
• 2+ years of cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud technologies)
• Experience working in an Agile environment using frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban or similar
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field is preferred, but not required
• Knowledge of development (storage networking & computes/difference), development environment, merge requests, approvals, builds, deploys, would be very useful

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with reporting & data visualization tooling
• Experience in cloud optimization or similar role
• Experience as an engineer with modern architectures, CI/CD practices, containerization, and/or relevant competencies within the engineer’s discipline