Product Owner

The role

The Product Owner will maximize value delivered by development teams. This person will collaborate with stakeholders to create product vision, strategy, and roadmaps while providing direction to development via epics, features, and user stories.

What you will do

• Collaborate with stakeholders in the creation, maintenance, and communication of product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Represent the product in team or minor level governance meetings.
• Track and provide status to leadership.
• Serve as the primary product representative on cross-functional teams.
• Provide direction to Development via epics, features, user stories, backlog grooming, sprint and release planning.
• Make scope and priority decisions during the sprint.
• Own and manage the teams backlog.
• Contribute to the generation of a high-level release plan.
• Develop and maintain product delivery roadmap.
• Create continuous feedback loop on products via acceptance criteria, utilization monitoring, pilot programs, and feedback.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in product design, business management, or engineering
• Ability to work on multiple projects in various stages simultaneously
• Excellent teamwork skills and proven ability to influence cross-functionally and without form authority
• Adept at managing and maintaining strong relationships with critical cross-functional business partners and 3rd party partners
• Proven success overseeing in a nonmanagerial role all elements of the product and software development lifecycle
• Familiarity with Agile framework and ability to effectively communicate complex processes within and across teams
• Track record of launching new products
• Attention to detail, organization planning, and documentation skills

Nice to have

• MBA preferred
• Certification in one of the Product Management frameworks (e.g. Pragmatic)
• 3+ years associated with CRM, Retail, ERP, DMS or ‘like’ systems
• Experience using Agile/Scrum methodology and/or workflow management tools for product development (Jira, Aha!, etc.)
• Previous experience in Product Development or Product Marketing of a commercial software business

About the company

Lightspeed is a provider of cloud-based software for dealerships in the Powersport, Marine, RV, Trailer, and Golf Car industries. Their Dealer Management Solution enables dealerships to optimize end-to-end business operations.