Product Owner II

Summary

Join SpryPoint as a Product Owner for the Small Applications Team (SAT)! You will lead a portfolio of smaller, high-impact applications, prioritizing and delivering value to customers. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking and technical understanding to manage the product backlog, collaborate with stakeholders, and foster user community education. You will work closely with development and service delivery teams, contribute to product management processes, and support sales and business development efforts. The ideal candidate possesses experience in the utilities industry and Agile methodologies, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. SpryPoint offers a remote-first work environment, competitive compensation, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Experience in the Utilities Industry
• Proven experience with Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum or Kanban
• Be thorough and detail-oriented
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and prioritize accordingly
• Understanding of system design & analysis
• Familiarity with API design and integration
• Thrive on working closely and collaborating with others whether they be internal to the firm, or directly with our customers

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions with both internal and external stakeholders to refine existing product features and uncover new features
• Manage and evaluate product ideas from multiple sources both internal and external
• Facilitate feedback loops throughout the development cycle to ensure ideas translate to valuable products
• Work closely with a Development Team Lead to ensure the successful delivery of product
• Engage with Service Delivery on specific project requirements and influencing customer transition timelines
• Support the Development team through the SCRUM sprint cycles
• Liaise with Customer Success to identify patterns and trends in customer issues and enhancement requests
• Provide demonstrations of your products to internal and external stakeholders
• Provide new feature education to support user enablement - both internal to the company and external to our customers
• Collaborate on the definition of product management processes and best practices, internal education around processes and best practices
• Collaborate with the Product Manager on the definition of objectives and key results for the SAT Team products
• Collaborate with the product management team on Quality Management practices through the design, develop and release cycles
• Provide forecasts on when items will be available in the product
• Support the sales process for estimating quotable development work
• Collaborate with business development with responses to RFPs and Statement of Work documents

Preferred Qualifications

You have a tendency to be positive, creative and curious

Benefits

• Remote-first and autonomous working environment with flexible working hours
• Competitive compensation package
• Macbook + $500 towards your home office setup
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Generous PTO, ½ day Summer Fridays, and flexible sick days
• RRSP (Canada) and 401k (US) matching program
• Professional development courses, $2,500 annual tuition assistance, and a book bounty program
• Annual company events (SpryPalooza!) and team offsites