Product Owner (Product Specialist III)

Overview

Recruiter - Lorena Padilla

Position reports to: Simant Shrivastava

Work schedule: Hybrid, going to the office in GDL for 3 days

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:

As Product Specialist-III, you will play a critical part in driving the success of our products, taking ownership of the product lifecycle from inception to delivery. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, gather customer insights, and make data-driven decisions to shape the product roadmap.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:

1. Lead and own the product roadmap for a product and improve the end-to-end customer and distributor impact.
2. Conduct comprehensive market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
3. Understand your customers and their pain points; work with your stakeholders to find solutions that help them enable their scenarios. Translate customer requirements into actionable product features and specifications.
4. Formulate product vision and strategy, define and prioritize road maps, define and drive the user stories.
5. Partner with WW business, UX, Engineering, product/program teams on defining, designing, and delivering high-quality products.
6. Engage with teams across evangelize the product penetration and address use cases.
7. Identify, assess and mitigate risks for your product, provide escalation management.
8. Drive go-to-market strategies, collaborating with marketing and sales teams for successful product launches.
9. Identify and monitor KPIs of projects pre and post-production and report the findings.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None

Job Qualifications

Skills Required:

1. Exceptional communication skills, with ability to collaborate with engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and functional stakeholders; proven ability to provide the voice of the customer.
2. Solid understanding of product management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
3. Strong critical thinking skills and a strategic approach to problem-solving.
4. Detail-oriented with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects.
5. Good understanding of technical concepts and the ability to work with Engineering teams.
6. Ability to lead requirements gathering, story mapping, and running requirements workshops with strategic stakeholders.
7. Ability to influence and align relevant stakeholders.

Experience:

1. 3-5 years of work experience in product or program management, product marketing, and digital products.
2. 2+ years working experience in Scrum and Agile SDLC models.
3. Experience writing and managing user stories with product management tools like Jira/AzureDevOps.
4. Experience overseeing roadmap strategy and definition.
5. Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
6. Experience with end-to-end product delivery.

Education Required:

1. Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent.

Preferred:

1. MBA.