Product Owner Jobs

CAS uses intuitive technology, unparalleled scientific content and unmatched human expertise to help companies create groundbreaking innovations that benefit the world. As the scientific information solutions division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages the largest curated reservoir of scientific knowledge, and for 115 years, has helped innovators mine, assess and apply that information to keep businesses thriving. The CAS team is global, diverse, endlessly curious and strives to make scientific insights accessible to innovators worldwide.

CAS is currently seeking a Product Owner. This position will be located in our Columbus, OH headquarters.

The Community You Will Join

Join technologists, businesspeople, product makers, marketeers, and designers to craft solutions to solve the world’s most complex problems. Scientists throughout the world leverage CAS products to improve people’s lives.

Key Tasks

• Leverage Market Understanding –Monitors key product analytics to inform development priorities. Establishes and leverages effective relationships with customers, thought leaders, and sales. Understands competitive context. Provides direction as to relevant customer segments to target for research.
• Creating Product Requirements - Documents clear and measurable product requirements, makes data-driven prioritization recommendations, and understands practical trade-offs between implementation and functionality. Creates detailed product specifications using written requirements, business rules, process flows and use cases; incorporates user experience generated deliverables such as prototypes, wireframes and visual designs.
• Requirement Prioritization and backlog management - Prioritizes and sequences product features and stories to meet market demands. Delivers prioritized recommendations.
• You will be a member of the Product Management team where you will work closely with the product managers, UX team, other product owners and the technology partners.
• Product Roadmap – Understands market priorities and works with the product managers and technology partners to identify solutions. Develops compelling and actionable product roadmap.
• Product Delivery - Manages the development and launch of new features and functionality through the entire product development lifecycle process from concept through implementation and release. Authors market requirements/agile epics and bring forward market requirements/agile epics to grow products.

Your Expertise

• Analysis and Modeling - Effectively using research and data to drive complex decisions, ability to establish relevant metrics with little direction. Solid understanding of ROI and ability to apply as a decision-making tool.
• Understands Business Drivers, Context and Key Issues - Has a good working and background understanding of business drivers and key issues, sees actions in organizational context. Able to answer, “So What? What’s Next?” questions to deeply understand complex issues and define strategic options.
• Experience – Over 7 years of progressive professional experience, including avg. 3 years relevant work experience as product owner, in product management, project management, or technology roles. Experience with professional information tools, workflow software solutions, and technology-enabled products and services. Experience in the Chemistry and/or IP industry is a bonus.
• Communication and Partnering – Strong formal and informal communication. Can create compelling communication materials to support the logic behind recommendations and decisions. Communicates with colleagues in concise, compelling, empathetic and persuasive ways.
• Hands-on individual contributor
• Partnership and Influence – Demonstrated experience in working successfully with development teams and stakeholders.
• Education - Bachelors’ degree or higher in related field, with record of strong academic achievement.
• Agile Product Development – Experience in working in an Agile and/or Kanban set-up. Able to collaborate across teams to manage iterative development of moderately complex products. Uses effective communication and active listening skills to identify and articulate product requirements, able to leverage subject matter expertise across teams to deliver timely results. Seeks support and escalates as needed.
• Leadership – Able to effectively lead projects and drive successful outcomes.

CAS offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including a generous vacation plan, medical, dental, vision insurance plans, and employee savings and retirement plans. Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future. EEO/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran.