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Arrow Electronics, Inc. – a Fortune 150 company helps the world’s best technology companies think “Five Years Out,” working together to continually innovate the “next big thing”. We are a global provider of technology products, services, and solutions, with 2020 sales of over $30 billion. We are seeking a highly motivated Product Owner to join the digital product team, a passionately committed group who turns visions into reality and creates innovative solutions in real-world applications. The product team manages the product lifecycle, spanning multiple development and supply chain business teams, that support our E-commerce and E-business web technologies. In this role you will be supporting the Fulfillment development team, utilizing Agile & Scrum methodologies to carry out your responsibilities.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Be the subject matter expert for your scrum team's focus area.
- Learn and understand current business operations, how they interact with the application, and where best to improve upon them through development. Including business operations from Sales, Customer Service, Order Management, Logistics, and Finance departments.
- Understand the business need behind epics in order to create user stories and acceptance criteria (including technical requirements tailored to Dynamics NAV) for delivery to developers and testers.
- Accurately define and document complex requirements and processes, to ensure efficiency and maximum value from team’s delivery.
- Work with QA to validate/test that the intent of the user stories was accurately developed and work with developers to remediate any misunderstandings.
- Minimize oversubscription of development team by accurately evaluating scope, managing competing priorities, and setting realistic stakeholder expectations.
- Forecast impediments to sprint completion during planning to mitigate risk and solve prioritization bottlenecks between teams where necessary.
- Facilitate backlog refinement meetings with team.
- Manage the software development backlog and communicate significant changes to timeline and/or application with the appropriate party before, during and after release.
- Coordinate with the Scrum Master to facilitate short feedback loops between delivery teams and stakeholders through frequent deliveries and sharing of lessons learned.
- Participate in system demos at the end of the iteration and provide story/feature acceptance per the pre-agreed “Definition of Done” criteria.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
What Are We Looking For?
We're looking for a dynamic and collaborative team member who wants to work hard, find innovative solutions, and see results in real-world applications. A strong candidate will have the following skills:
- Understanding of, and experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Proven experience in problem solving, dealing with ambiguity, and organizational agility
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal & external stakeholders, how the software application can assist in supporting their needs
- Experience with cross-department collaboration and global scale projects
- Customer and end-user focused
- Strong analytical skills and precise attention to detail.
- Solid written and verbal communication skills
- In depth knowledge and experience within Supply Chain
- Ideal to have Microsoft Dynamics (Navision) experience, but not required.
Experience / Education
- 5-7 years of Product Owner, ERP Functional or Technical Analyst, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance Tester, or similar software development experience on ERPs, plus a 4 year degree; or 4 years experience and an advanced degree
What’s In It For You?
At Arrow, we recognize that financial rewards and great benefits are important aspects of an ideal job. That’s why we offer competitive financial compensation, including various compensation plans, and a solid benefits package.
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401k, With Matching Contributions
- Paid Time Off
- Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options
- Growth Opportunities
- Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Discounted RTD Passes, with convenient office location off RTD Light Rail (Dry Creek Exit)
- On-site Café with Catering Option for Busy Lifestyles
- 24/7/365 On-site Gym and Lockers, Free for Use to All Employees!
- Bike Racks
- And more!
Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. The pay ratio between base pay and target incentive (if applicable) will be finalized at offer.
Location:US-CO-Colorado (Remote Employees)
Time Type:Full time
Job Category:Information TechnologyEEO Statement:
Arrow is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. (Arrow EEO/AAP policy)
Arrow COVID-19 Vaccination Policy:
Arrow requires employees to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination by:
• December 1, 2021, for all positions located in CO and for business units within immixGroup and Zeus.
• All other employees will be required to identify vaccination status by December 1, 2021, and provide proof of full vaccination by January 3, 2022.
