Product Owner - 100% Remote

Genesis10 is seeking a Product Owner for a 12-month contract assignment with a financial services client in Minneapolis, MN. This position will work fully remote.

Compensation: $60.00 - $67.00 per hour, W2, depending on skill and experience level.

Summary:

• The Product Owner works on a cross-functional team to create meaningful and simple experiences for their product's customers. They own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer wants and needs. A PO typically is new to the role of Product Owner, and as such, likely manages products with limited scope and impact.
• There will be no direct personnel supervisory responsibility; however, the candidate will supervise product teams with cross-functional team members.

Responsibilities:

• The Product Owner is responsible for articulating and translating the overall vision for the product into strategy and tactics, and for identifying specific solutions to drive necessary business outcomes. This highly collaborative role works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members in order to rapidly deliver quality solutions to customers.
• Works as a key team member on a cross-functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences.
• Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with the client's priorities and overall product roadmap, as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
• Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
• Maintain and refine product backlog
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
• Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed.
• Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
• Work as a part of an agile team, ensuring the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives, and attending all team meetings
• Engages with customers and users regularly to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
• Develop and track key value drivers that measure the effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders regularly.
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
  Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)).

Education Required:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred:
Certified Product Owner or similar certification

Required Skills:

• 4-6 years relevant business experience
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
• Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail.
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
• Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
• Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies.
• Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies.
• Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices.
• Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
• Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
• Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives.
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, apply today!

About Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
Access to hundreds of clients, most of whom have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.

• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as the Best Company for Work-Life Balance, and as the Best Company for Career Growth, Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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