Product Owner (Product Specialist III)

Recruiter - Lorena Padilla

Position reports to: Simant Shrivastava

Work schedule: Hybrid, going to the office in GDL for 3 days

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:  

As Product Specialist-III, you will play a critical part in driving the success of our products, taking ownership of the product lifecycle from inception to delivery. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, gather customer insights, and make data-driven decisions to shape the product roadmap.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:  

•   Lead and own the product roadmap for a product and improve the end-to-end customer and distributor impact
•   Conduct comprehensive market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
•   Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios. Translate customer requirements into actionable product features and specifications.
•   Formulate product vision and strategy, define and prioritize road maps, define and drive the user stories.
•   Partner with WW business, UX, Engineering, product/ program teams on defining, designing and delivering high-quality products.
•   Engage with teams across evangelize the product penetration and address use cases.
•   Identify, assess and mitigate risks for your product, provide escalation management.
•   Drive go-to-market strategies, collaborating with marketing and sales teams for successful product launches.
•   Identify and monitor KPIs of projects pre and post-production and report the findings

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

None
 

Skills Required:

•   Exceptional communication skills, with ability to collaborate with engineers, data scientists, data analysts and functional stakeholders; proven ability to provide the voice of the customer
•   Solid understanding of product management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
•   Strong critical thinking skills and a strategic approach to problem-solving
•   Detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects. 
•   Good understanding of technical concepts and the ability to work with Engineering teams.
•   Ability to lead requirements gathering, story mapping, and running requirements workshops with strategic stakeholders
•   Ability to influence and align relevant stakeholders

Experience:
•   3-5 years of work experience in product or program management, product marketing, and digital products
•   2+ years working experience in Scrum and Agile SDLC models
•   Experience writing and managing user stories with product management tools like Jira/AzureDevOps
•   Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
•   Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
•   Experience with end-to-end product delivery

Education Required: 
•   Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent

Preferred
•   MBA