Product Owner Ii

NMI is looking for a Product Owner II to join our Billing product engineering team. The Billing team is responsible for the development of a suite of billing micro services serving the various needs of our member companies and global finance teams. This role will require the development of new systems, the maintenance of existing legacy systems, and the coordination of migration between the two.

As Product Owner, you will manage the execution of NMI’s strategy and roadmap, while facilitating backlog grooming, prioritization, triage and other development ceremonies. Our Product Owners also take an active role in product launches, ensuring internal stakeholders are trained on the latest product capabilities. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision and attention to detail, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time learning the product and understanding its users in order to make the best design decisions for our clients. **A background in the development of accounting or billing systems is strongly preferred.**

**Requirements**:

- Prioritize the product backlog and coordinate with stakeholders including the Product Manager, customer facing teams,
- Develop an understanding of the target market and user base; Uses this to guide product decisions
- Develop epics and user stories for all new functionality, present user stories to product teams and ensure new functionality meets the acceptance criteria
- Partner with stakeholders to help define Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that delivers incremental value; Ensure MVP aligns with product vision and NMI’s strategic goals
- Work with development team, Product Manager and other Product Owners to do release planning
- Write detailed release notes and provides product training to internal teams
- Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure new products and functionality work as expected
- Work with other Product Owners to ensure dependencies are prioritized appropriately across teams
- Ensure the conceptual and functional integrity of new features or components.
- Develop the voice of customer information through customer interviews.

**Typical Experience**
- At least 1-3 years of product owner experience or similar/equivalent.
- Ability to take business requirements and translate them into detailed product specifications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with customers, business and technical team members across the organization

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary and commission package
- 40 hours week with flexi-time
- Health and Dental Insurance
- Life, ADD, Short-term and Long-term Disability insurance
- Extended Health Care/Emergency Travel Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Work Remotely
- Vacation, Personal Wellness and Sick time
- 10 Paid Holidays
- Casual dress
- Bonusly colleague reward scheme
- Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward

**Equal Opportunity**

NMI is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or sexual identity, genetic information, citizen status (except those that do not have the legal right to be employed in the United States), disability, military service, service member, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

**About us**

We enable our partners with choice, and challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realizing it. We’re the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech startups. We’re creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what’s possible so they can think about what’s next. But we’re not just built for the tech savvy. We democratize the latest payments technology so that everyone can realize the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. We’re all about enabling more payments in more ways and more places.

We believe that having a diverse group of employees strengthens both our work and our workplace. We’re focused on making NMI more diverse and welcoming with initiatives like having a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion action group, diversity goals for hiring, anonymized resume screening, affinity groups such as our Women's network and LGBTQ+ Network, open forums for discussions on diversity and social justice, and measuring inclusion and belonging as part of our regular employee engagement surveys.