Product Owner

The Product Owner at Trimble Maps works closely with Product Management, Support and Engineering to manage the lifecycle of our SaaS products. Our ideal candidate will have a strong Technical Project Management background with demonstrated experience leading services in the Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall development lifecycle of complex solutions.
• Work with Product Management and Support to develop and execute a roadmap.
• Work closely with Engineering Managers to develop robust, scalable and fault-tolerant services.
• Project Management - Prioritize and manage tasks. Communicate status and risks to stakeholder and leadership.
• Ensure products are released with high quality and on schedule.
• Work with the sprint teams to manage sprints and remove roadblocks.
• Coordinate the roadmap breakdown into milestones and sprints.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing.
• Work with Quality Assurance to coordinate the test plans.
• Provide demos and gather feedback from customers
• Act as the primary liaison between Engineering and Business teams.
• Visit key customers and partners to ensure feedback is factored into the roadmap.
• Managing other team members for this business line.

Qualifications

• Background with Web technologies (Web Services, Web Applications, databases) is strongly preferred.
• Must be comfortable using API testing tools.
• Good presentation/communication skills for internal training, client interaction, and industry events.
• Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or EE major with experience building software.
• 5-7 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, Product Manager, Product Owner, Project Manager, Scrum Master in the technology/software industry
• Ability to handle concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Agile Knowledge.
• Ability to articulate both agile and SAFe Agile development values and principles.
• Demonstrate how to conduct story mapping and user story writing sessions to create a product backlog Explain various ways to create user stories and document acceptance criteria.