Principal Product Owner (Remote)
Are you a transformative product leader? Ever considered what large enterprise companies are doing to reinvent themselves into the digital age? If you are looking for taking on the challenge of applying large scale technologies such as AI and Machine Learning to transformative products, then look no further.
As a Digital Transformation Product Owner for the IHSM Engineering and Product Design organization, you’ll be working hand in hand with enterprise Global Fortune 500 sized companies to help them drive digital transformation through software solutions. You will be working with these companies to identify use cases, user journeys, UI experiences, and creating a prioritized backlog of work for the engineering team. Alongside this product ownership role, you’ll be working very closely with the rest of the product management organization building a cutting-edge AI/Machine Learning powered platform focused on advanced technologies such as digital threading, knowledge graphs, and deep learning.
This role requires a high degree of integrity, motivation, discipline, energy, persistence, and attention to detail. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter who thrives on tackling new challenges with a pragmatic approach. The successful candidate must be willing to actively engage in day-to-day operations while maintaining a strategic and hands-on understanding of complex product offerings and company direction.
Duties & Accountabilities
Translate customer requirements and high-level user-stories created by the Product Manager into specific and actionable user stories for the development team
Collaborate with user experience, development and content teams to brainstorm and create necessary content to drive product functionality
Support the creation of the product development roadmap
Create and maintain product backlog
Project plan tracking & updating for product development – keep everything moving forward, identify risks and escalate as needed
Prioritize development backlog for each development cycle & communicate priorities to stakeholders
Support go-to-market activities by providing clear communication on product functionality, respond to customer inquiries and train sales / customer care on new functionality
Conduct research and literature reviews to understand the technical feasibility, uncertainty and risks of domain-specific feature requirements
Design systems, features and/or processes to solve challenging stakeholder or customer problems
Drive solution definition, design, and feature acceptance criteria for projects, product enhancements and defects
Independently works with stakeholders to refine storyboards and/or user stories
Build strong working relationships with internal teams and select customers
Collaborate with development team to provide clarity on user stories
Create acceptance criteria to ensure user stories solve identified customer use cases
Work with distributed teams spread across the world
Effectively communicate strategies & trade-offs to senior leaders
Must Have:
3 – 5 years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager
Good understanding of technology systems and software development processes
Customer first mentality – desire to deliver the best possible user experience to customers
Experience with Agile development processes
Passion for technology, and business opportunities that it presents, with the ability to comprehend both technical and business topics to recommend options and solutions
Proven ability to work in cross-functional teams towards mutual success
Ability to break down complex topics into understandable elements
Nice to Have:
Experience in AI, machine learning, or big data
What We Offer
Collaborative and flexible environment committed to a diverse workplace.
Competitive base salary, bonus plans and equity.
A comprehensive, benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans, paid time off, a generous 401k match with no vesting period, parental leave and 3 volunteering days each year. For more information on benefits, please access the benefits page on our careers site: https://careers.ihsmarkit.com/benefits.php.
For work locations in the state of Colorado, the anticipated base salary range for this role would be between $75,440 and $100,000. Compensation will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the applicant.
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