Software Product Owner (Open To Remote)

Description

BE A MAKER

At Simpson Strong-Tie, there’s a common thread connecting the people who work here: the drive to make things better and figure out how to get it done. We call it the Maker mindset. For over 60 years, our employees have fostered a collaborative workplace where people are engaged in creative thinking from the first day on the job onward. No matter what role you’re in — from production, to sales, to engineering — you’ll contribute to the growth and success of the company by having a Maker mindset.

When you think of the best a family has to offer — support, collaboration and respect — that's what we value. When there's a win, we'll cheer you on. When there's a snag, coworkers step in to help you out. Working on solutions together is just the way we do things here, and that creates an atmosphere that often feels like home.

You'll work alongside talented, passionate, dedicated, humble and genuinely kind people who are all contributing to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures. It's this mission and our strong people-focused values that have made Simpson Strong-Tie a unique place to work — a place where you can connect, create and build your career. We invite you to learn more about our culture and why our employees are our most loyal customers.

YOU

You want to be an important member of a strong team of other makers who take pride in their work and support each other. The Software Product Owner will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinate sprints. To be successful in this role, the Software Product Owner will be a product expert and need to be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams while crafting the product vision. If career growth is important to you, we not only know how to help you with that, it’s what we love to do: https://youtu.be/PUqzuWryYcU

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Product Planning

Plan and prioritize the product backlog on a regular basis to ensure work focuses on items with maximum value, ensuring there are always an adequate number of stories in the product backlog that meet the definition of Ready prior to planning meetings with development team. (40%)

Guide Collaborative Product Efforts

Hold regular meetings including but not limited to the following. Product Backlog Refinement meetings with the development team prior to sprint planning to improve clarity of requirements of user stories. Sprint Planning meetings with the development team to plan sprint workload, including the collaboration of development tasks and tests. Sprint Review meetings to share sprint goals and review completed work with product stakeholders. Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals. Work with development team and technical writing team to write and manage release notes of completed features. (30%)

Share the Vision

Work closely with Product Management to understand product strategy and vision enabling you to provide the agile development team with clear vision, direction and understanding of the product backlog. (20%)

Leadership

Lead and motivate employees to provide best in class solutions for the product being created to best align their contribution towards the products impact on the overall organizational success by using effective leadership techniques, including establishing expectations and goals, providing recognition and feedback, and addressing performance problems. Empower employees to take responsibility for their career and performance. Delegate responsibility and expect accountability and regular feedback. Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members and the organization. (10%)

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

If you can do everything listed above, you’ve got what it takes. Perhaps some of the following would be helpful too:

• Perseverance: Ability to do something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field required, preferably in business, IT, computer science, engineering, project management or another technology-focused field, or equivalent experience required.
• Composure: Ability to stay calm and in control in tense or frustrating situations.
• Organization: The ability to arrange resources to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner.
• Customer Focus: Ability to cultivate relationships that secure commitment and trust with external and internal customer needs.
• 5+ years leading cross-functional teams.
• Teamwork: Ability to build and sustain cooperative working relationships.
• Motivating Others: Ability to lead others in a positive and effective way that leads to high reward results.
• Process Management: Ability to manage a repeatable process to improve the outcome of the product.
• Thorough knowledge of construction and residential home building practices is a plus.
• Action Oriented: Ability to willingly take practical action to deal with a problem or situation in a timely manner.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify the information needed to solve problems effectively.
• Delegation: Ability to effectively entrust responsivities to others.
• 3+ years working in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) product development environment.
• Communication: Ability to write in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience. Ability to effectively present information to groups of managers, team members and customers.

TRAVEL

This job requires 5% domestic travel.

WORK STATUS & LOCATION

This full-time, exempt position is located in Boulder, Colorado or remote with availability during core hours of 9am to 4pm MT. Posted pay range is based upon national average and may vary depending on geographical work location.

RELOCATION

Relocation is not available for this position.

PAY

$78000 - $109500 / year

REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE

We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits. May exclude some positions, such as seasonal jobs.

• Benefits: We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including: medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more.
• Quarterly Bonuses/Commission: You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe all employees affect customers, sales and revenue — directly or indirectly – and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.

In keeping with the Company's commitment to the communities in which it does business, we are an equal opportunity employer. This means that to the fullest extent required by local law, employment decisions are based on merit and business needs and not on race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender (which state law may define to include gender identity/expression, transgender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, and gender stereotyping), sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, covered marital status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Please note all job offers are contingent upon a successful background investigation and drug test. Simpson Strong-Tie’s drug policy is based upon Federal Law, and therefore will screen applicants for amphetamines, including methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana/THC, phencyclidine, and opiates.

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