Product Manager | Product Owner

Title: Product Manager | Product Owner

Location: Alpharetta, GA (hybrid remote)

Status: Temp to Perm

Compensation: $125-140K DOE / Contractor rate $70-80/hour

Travel: 25-30%

Product Manager /Owner | SAFe | CPO |PSPO | CSM | CSPO

Job Summary:

The Certified Scrum Product Owner is responsible for developing and executing technology product strategies and roadmaps to optimize the value of technology-based investments within their assigned product domain(s). In this role, you will serve as the Voice of the Customer (VOC) within a specific Solution domain, working either as part of a cross-functional Agile team or in a defined partnership with the Technology team.

Your primary focus will be to maintain a deep understanding of business goals and processes, using this knowledge to prioritize product features and identify opportunities for process improvement. You will continuously strive to achieve strategic outcomes, leveraging customer insights, feedback, as well as financial, compliance, and risk data to shape product development. Collaboration and alignment are essential aspects of this role, as you will interact closely with stakeholders to ensure that product vision, features, and roadmaps align with strategic objectives. Additionally, you will be responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on the performance and impact of product solutions, demonstrating agility by adjusting as necessary to maximize the value of our client’s product investments.

Responsibilities:

· Lead product strategy, planning, and lifecycle management efforts for assigned products.

· Develop strong relationships and regularly communicate with product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy by surfacing and prioritizing needs.

· Monitor and analyze product performance, usage data, and customer feedback to identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities and product enhancements.

· Maintain a regular cadence of review meetings to gather feedback on delivered solutions.

· Work closely with the cross functional team to detect quality issues as they surface and correct them in or near real-time.

· Manage dependencies with other team's functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnerships across different product teams.

· Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions.

· Determine internal and contract/external resources and skills required for the product team to deliver on the product roadmap.

· Keep the cross functional team informed of the strategy, driving product design or upgrade, and informed of any innovations that influence the evolution of product strategy.

· Translate user needs and business requirements into actionable product and technical requirements.

· Guide the cross-functional product team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying agile delivery methodologies.

· Define, track, and communicate OKRs for assigned product(s) to measure performance and contribution of value to the organization and evaluate future investment.

· Set expectations with business stakeholders, vendors, and internal project teams for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.

Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field of study from an accredited college or university; will consider a combination of experience and/or education.

· Ideally, 10 years’ work experience in a Product, Business, Technical or related role, with 3 years' experience or understanding of product solutions, customer usage and success, and/or program or project management related to solutions delivery.

· Ability to travel up to 25% to 30% of the time.

· Demonstrated experience defining a value stream.

· Strong knowledge of business acumen, with the ability to focus on details and results, while working independently.

· Ability to be keenly aware of the needs of the stakeholders to whom their products are delivered.

· Ability to understand which problems need to be solved, which solutions would best solve them, and the feasibility of delivering those solutions.

· Commitment to consistently adhere to policies and procedures and be a positive example for others by demonstrating the Company’s core values of Respect, Accountability, Innovation, Safety, and Excellence in completing work assignments.

· Self-motivated, have phenomenal work ethic and looking for the right company to support your growth.

Preferred:

· Master’s degree in related field of study from an accredited college or university.

· Ideally, 5 years of experience in a Product Owner role and 3+ years of energy industry or pipeline operations experience.

· Experience in product lifecycle management or software development and business process redesign.

· Product owner certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner Certification)

· Project Management certification