Product Owner

**Who we are**

Adlib has been transforming the way enterprise organizations overcome unstructured content challenges for over 15 years. Our content intelligence and automation solutions allow thousands of global customers to discover, standardize, classify, extract and leverage clean structured data from complex unstructured documents to simplify compliance, accelerate business processes and fuel data-driven analytics.

**Our new Product Owner is responsible for**:
**Our new Product Owner will**:
Be the owner of the delivery of product and features
- Maintains quality service by working with the technical team to enforce quality and customer service standards, analyze, and resolve quality and customer service problems, and recommend system improvements.
- Define the end-to-end product development, supporting the business & customer centricity strategy: from discovery to support. The product owner is also the primary communicator and link between stakeholders and teams.
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries, new requests related to the product.
- Works in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
- Build, manage and prioritize product backlog, weighing priorities according to the needs and objectives of stakeholders. Product backlog will change frequently, the product owner must make the list accessible and available to all stakeholders (particularly developers) to ensure optimized performance and product outcomes.
- Develop scope and define backlog items by successfully decomposing customer use cases to epics/features/user stories, that guide the Agile software development team.
- Drive Agile (Scrum) ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Retrospectives
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
- Work with business and technical stakeholders to identify and organize the steps required for the next iteration.
- Manage key stakeholders and their expectation.
- Build and present bi-weekly burndown and velocity chart to key stakeholders.
- Increase an understanding of Agile practices, new technologies opportunities and other new trends.
- Coordinate technology installations, upgrades, and maintenance

**Be a contributor to the business transformation**
- Provide guidance and support to the business owner during the research and design phases.
- Put in place agile delivery processes to continuously deliver value.
- Define, govern & report success indicators

**Be an inspirational and motivational colleague**
- Ability to collaborative with multi-functional team members across all lines of business.
- Contribute to the collaborative and stimulating work environment.
- Be a change agent.
- Embrace and build a continuous improvement culture and be an Agile mindset promoter.
- Be connected to the industry to know tendencies and suggest innovative ideas.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Responsible to guide the technical team with a clear product vision to ensure its success

**Soft skills**
- Proactive, self-starter with excellent product management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
- High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
- Strong knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment.
- Comfortable challenging the status quo and questioning existing practices.
- Action-oriented and ‘can do’ attitude. Pay attention to details.
- Performance management
- Results driven
- Handle pressure
- Giving quality constructive feedback
- Ability to adapt to constant changes
- Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with mínimal or no supervision

**Our new Product Owner has**:

- 4+ years of experience in Product Management or a combination of education and experience in this field
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field
- Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certification
- Experience with Agile methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience with Azure DevOps preferred
- Experience with Aha platform is plus
- Understanding of Software as a Service (Saas) models

**What’s in it for you?**

We wholeheartedly believe that maximizing work-life balance is one of the most important paths to high performance. To that end, we have an open-vacation policy and many programs to promote employee wellness. We have massage therapist days, badminton, baseball, fresh fruit i