Product Owner - Web Interface
Gloo, headquartered in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, builds software for people and organizations dedicated to improving lives. We’re leveraging the same exponential tech that’s driving success in other industries and making it available through tools such as big data, custom assessments, an engagement app, and eventually an entire market network focused on growth. As one of Boulder’s most successful and innovative tech companies, Gloo needs more talented professionals who are driven to make a positive impact on humanity. Are you one of them?
As the newest member of our product team, you are a confident professional with a proven history of building great web experiences for consumers. Your proven experience developing, delivering, and supporting robust web applications for at scale is what we are looking for. You will work hand in hand with our clients, partners, UX researchers, engineering, and QA teams to understand our audience’s needs that will drive our bold product vision to market. You share our passion for data-driven decision making, and you have an ability to communicate your ideas effectively across the organization. You have extensive experience working on real products that people use every day, and you can’t wait to share those talents with us!
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing vision and leadership as a subject matter expert to our product development efforts
- Researching, preparing, and evangelizing the product roadmap including defining short- and long-term vision
- Working with go to market teams to define product specifications, use cases and actionable stories for current and future products
- Collaborating with UX researchers and QA teams along with engineering to drive usability research that validates product solutions
- Ensuring creation and execution of product launch plans by working with marketing, sales, and support teams
- Developing and delivering presentations, roadmaps, and web pages to both internal and external audiences
- Engaging in participatory design activities with customers, to better understand their needs and deliver a deeply meaningful experience
- Joining forces with engineering and UCD to measure key performance metrics across features, utilizing data for enhancement decisions and roadmap prioritization
- Ensuring expert product training/support for client facing teams as well as responding to in-market problems and potential enhancements
What you’ll bring along:
- BS/BA in a technical discipline
- At least 8 years of professional experience utilizing quantitative/qualitative data to drive the design and experience of web interface apps
- 5+ years of experience as a product owner/manager for a consumer web application at scale
- Prior experience building and supporting app or digital content marketplaces gets you extra points
- You’re a thought leader in your space and proud of your work; you’ve shared it via white papers and speaking engagements
- Superior communication skills and presentation skills, with an ability to transfer ideas to a diverse audience of executives, product managers, software engineers, salespeople, then constructively integrate feedback.
- Thrive in an environment where “what if” is commonplace
- Organized professional capable of managing your time, tasks and activities without daily guidance while coordinating a team through effective delegation
- Love working with people and play well as a member of the team
- Driven to help others – it feeds your soul
Our team members enjoy:
- Compensation and bonus commensurate with experience
- Plenty of time off to keep you balanced
- Medical with HSA contribution
- A dynamic, talented team, dedicated to changing the world and building an incredible business
- Beautiful office space in downtown Boulder on Pearl Street, steps from coffee shops and blocks from hiking trails
- Company Happy Hour Fridays
- Fresh fruit, snacks, coffee and sodas