Sr. Product Owner-Consumer Tech

3 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Robots & Pencils Full time
Job Description

As Sr. Product Owner Contractor at Robots & Pencils, your impact will be to drive the product roadmap and strategy for your team. Product Ownership is the heart of ensuring that we build and deliver meaningful, impactful product enhancements and features for our users. You’ll be responsible for turning research into full-fledged products and will work closely with the business development and UX teams to deeply understand the problem space and define compelling products.

Product Design & Development

  • Define a product strategy and roadmap with prioritized features to realize business goals and strategies

  • Assist in defining the core product vision, goals, functionality and requirements

  • Drive a lean and agile development process to help define and refine working processes in order to maximize efficiency in constantly evolving environments

  • Work with both internal and external groups to roll-out product features

  • Collaborate across robot and pencil practices to scope and deliver world-class products and establish shared vision by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution

  • Guide ideas from concept-to-experimentation-to-product

Product Roadmap

  • Work with UX team to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and deliver according to the product roadmap

  • Define and deliver MVPs based on research, then scaling this out into full-fledged products

  • Create and maintain product roadmaps, feature backlogs and product documentation such PRDs, user stories, use cases, user flows, logic flows, and functional specifications.

Product Management

  • You will help lead large and complex projects, and mentor peers to help grow and develop an already collaborative and dedicated team

  • Write detailed functional specs so the team is aligned on what we are delivering and what success looks like

  • Prioritize development activities with the robots, assist in determining the best technical implementation methods, work closely with QA on acceptance testing and lead product launches

Stakeholder Management

  • Create buy-in for the product strategy with stakeholders including the executive team

  • Strive to mentor peers through leading Pencil Sharpening sessions (the Pencils team gets together every month to collaborate and share their knowledge), while helping to advance their creative capabilities 

  • Join a tightly integrated UX Practice that takes teamwork seriously every day


Qualifications

  • Retail tech project experience is a plus for this role

  • 7+ years of product management, business analysis or equivalent experience with preference given to those who have a BA/BS in a technical field such as Computer Science/Engineering, or equivalent

  • Experience with agile methodologies and an understanding of product management's role in various development methodologies

  • Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complex products and services

  • Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills

  • Excellent analytical problem solving and decision making skills

  • Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize and communicate complex or technical concepts

  • Demonstrated thoroughness, follow-up and attention to detail

  • Up-to-date understanding of market trends and keen interest in following emerging technologies

  • Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement

  • Strong understanding of user experience, technical and business issues

  • Domain knowledge in one or more relevant industries



Additional Information

Robots & Pencils aspires to have a workforce that is representative of the diversity of our country and encourages applications from everyone.  Eligibility to work in the U.S. or Canada without sponsorship is required upon hire.

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