Senior Product Owner

  • Full-time

Company Description

insightsoftware is a growing, dynamic computer software company that helps businesses achieve greater levels of financial intelligence across their organization with our world-class financial reporting solutions. At insightsoftware, you will learn and grow in a fast-paced, supportive environment that will take your career to the next level. We are looking for future insighters who can demonstrate teamwork, results orientation, a growth mindset, disciplined execution, and a winning attitude to join our growing team!

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to lead a fast-paced team in expanding our emerging budgeting and planning product solutions. As a key member of the Product team, you will work closely with Product Managers to transform the strategic product roadmap into a well-defined set of technical features and then deliver on them successfully from one release to the next. You will lead the engineering development team to successful deliver releases on time, in scope and within budget. You will interface with customers and internal stakeholders to continuously understand and identify business problems and ensure we are building solutions that meet their needs while delivering with quality and an unrivaled user experience. 

The ideal candidate will be have strong leadership abilities to steer the engineering team and make decisions, highly collaborative with the ability to lead cross-functionally and inspire our teams while remaining focused on results and value creation. The candidate will possess the technical skills to work comfortably with our engineers while balancing a big-picture vision that can be communicated to our partners, leaders and customers. 

What will you do?  

  • Collaborate with Product Managers to formulate our product vision, strategy, and roadmap 

  • Own the product backlog, balancing conflicting priorities to determine prioritization 

  • Write and flush out user stories with the voice of customer in mind 

  • Own the release planning and sprint planning processes, including setting release and sprint goals, successfully delivering on those goals and coordinating with marketing on the release announcement 

  • Write and update product documentation and manage release updates.  

  • Provide an active role in mitigating risks and issues impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals 

  • Determine a standard set of acceptance criteria for testing, QA and validation.  

  • Ensuring acceptance criteria are met with current release and conducting sprint reviews from a business/customer perspective. 

  • Producing documentation with Product Managers and Marketing to support development, launch, support, services, and sales and marketing initiatives. This includes leadership of tech driven initiatives. 

  • Drive end user group testing and feedback sessions. Performing detailed product demonstrations for external and internal audiences to communicate the benefits of the solution 

  • Serving as a subject matter expert to assist with sales, professional services, marketing and support as needed 

 How will you do it?  

  • Engineering Technical Leadership- Steer the team to drive results and decisions  

  • Drive & Grit – Operate in a fast-paced environment with a focus and determination to achieve high-quality results 

  • Strategic Thinker – determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends with the ability to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way 

  • Product Focus – Translate market and customer feedback into requirements, driving product delivery through an agile release process 

  • Customer Focused – passionate about creating value for our customers 

  • Cross-functional leadership – Lead and drive execution across Development, Product Management, Support, and Customer Success 

 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

Minimum qualifications: 

  • 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager leading development teams 

  • Experience with Cloud-based SaaS product applications 

  • Familiarity with Excel and financial data 

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field 

  • In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles 

  • Ability to balance conflicting priorities and negotiate a backlog with engineers and leadership 

  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority 

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Preferred qualifications: 

  • Experience with financial products and software 

  • Experience with ERP reporting or business intelligence products 

  • Experience with ETL tools and data management 

  • Experience with SQL  

  • Experience with APIs 

  • Certifications: Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, Scrum Product Owner 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

*insightsoftware is unable to provide sponsorship*

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the stated work location. **