Product Owner

**Role: Principal Product Owner - Post-Production Workflows**

**Video Workflow Product Owner**

**Job Type: Fulltime**

**Location: Montreal, QC(Hybrid Remote)**

Product Owners represent the voice of the customer at Avid and interact daily with the engineering development team as product workflow expert. Product Owners are members of the Product Management team, and share responsibility for the success of their product line. In this role, you will be expected to collaborate closely with the Media Composer, NEXIS and Platform Engineering team, to guide, direct, and actively manage the product story backlog, answer technical questions about priorities, work with management to remove obstacles to progress, and manage the “definition of done” as the yardstick against which work results are measured.

**Summary**:

- Product Owners work cross-functionally to bring to market Avid products, services and workflows that are innovative, reliable, integrated, and best of breed. Product Owners also work with customers and the 3rd party community, to insure that our priorities are our customer/partner’s priorities. Owners must:

- Maintain a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs and bring the voice of the customer to the table as the primary rationale and argument for development priorities and decisions
- Understand and communicate our customers end-to-end workflows and translate them into actionable product requirements to deliver features that enable, streamline and delight users with power, while hiding complexity
- Using the customer’s voice, describe, prioritize, and communicate the requirements that really matter and be able to answer Engineering-team questions as they arise
- Be comfortable “sitting on the fence,” looking outward to understand end-user needs and inward, to manage the stories and processes that transform those customer needs into high quality, supportable, manageable software
- Act as an active stakeholder in the development team, and represent the product on behalf of the team when opportunities arise with customers, partners, and management
- Be the spokesperson for product-team efforts in sprint reviews and technology demonstrations, and be able to express the value of our efforts from the customer perspective
- Maintain a advanced knowledge of how Avid software is installed, deployed, and managed by our customers
- Proactively manage the expectations and education of all product stakeholders, including but not limited to customers, partners, and internal functions, such as production support, service and sales by involving stakeholders regularly in story creation and validation, and sprint reviews
- Understand how good software is developed, how high-functioning Engineering teams work, and how important quality and the related agile technical practices are to sustain a high velocity release cadence
- Work with Product Management to manage products through Avid’s Product Lifecycle Management process, involving both strategic planning and tactical execution, and covering all stages, from initial product concept and definition, through implementation, release, and ultimately end of life planning.

**Minimum requirements**
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of a Video and Post Workflows for TV, Film, a strong plus.
- At least 3+ years’ experience leading large design efforts and coordinating project teams of 4 or more members.
- Familiarity with field and lab-based usability research methodologies.
- This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites worldwide (20%)

Understanding of Agile development and practical use cases.

**Skills**:

- Must be able to articulate thoughts, in detail through the written word. It cannot be understated the amount of descriptive writing required for this position.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to communicate design rationale and build consensus.
- Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems.
- Must be organized, have an eye for detail, and be able to put ideas into a tangible form.
- Mastery of user interaction design skills.

Pay: $130,000.00-$135,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Montréal, QC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Product Owner: 6 years (preferred)
- Post-Production Workflows: 2 years (preferred)
- Video Workflow: 2 years (preferred)
- Agile: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Montréal, QC