Product Owner

Summary

Join Granicus as a skilled Product Owner and contribute to building innovative tools that transform the government technology industry. You will be responsible for gathering business requirements, guiding product vision, and collaborating with the engineering team to deliver impactful solutions. This role involves defining acceptance criteria, managing the product backlog, and ensuring projects are completed successfully. You will prioritize features based on business goals and technology, and maintain constant communication with the team. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience in product development and a passion for customer experience. Granicus offers a remote-first work environment and a supportive, inclusive culture.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working with technical teams, product development and / or product management
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
• Ability to prioritize product capabilities/features based on vision, business goals, technology, schedules and budgets
• Ability to influence without authority and champion change when needed
• Detective-like problem solving skills – you thoroughly investigate the situation and then use that data to design the right solution
• Ability to flex between the technical and business sides of your brain
• Relentless commitment to prioritization
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work both independently and lead cross functional teams
• Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization
• Ability to work with distributed teams, across timezones
• Passion for customers and good user experience

Responsibilities

• Act as the agile product owner on engineering scrum team(s)
• Own and prioritize the backlog for a feature area in collaboration with the Product Manager
• Prioritize tradeoffs, clarify requirements and work to drive user stories to acceptance throughout the agile development lifecycle
• Participate in sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings and provide feedback to the team
• Ensure acceptance criteria are clearly defined and verify that story implementation matches requirements
• Drive projects to completion
• Maintain constant communication with the team
• Enable internal teams to support product
• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program
• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies

Benefits

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand
• Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more