Granicus is hiring a
Technical Product Owner

Summary

The job is for a Technical Product Owner at Granicus, a remote-first company serving governments worldwide. The role involves leading 2+ teams, defining the product vision, creating and prioritizing the backlog, and communicating with stakeholders. Requirements include 2+ years of experience in an Agile environment, certifications as a Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner and Certified Scrum Master (CSM), skills in measuring software engineering key performance indicators, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience leading Devops engineers through successful product deliveries in an Agile environment
• Certifications: Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Proven skills in measuring software engineering key performance indicators
• Experience with global engineering teams, particularly with teams co-located in India and North America and/or Europe
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills for interacting with all internal organization, executives and business customer groups
• Elevated level of personal initiative, integrity, and leadership
• Ability to serve as the technical leader of a distributed, collaborative, and extraordinarily skilled Cloud Ops engineers

Responsibilities

• Oversee project execution across 2+ teams driving cloud team roadmap realization
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure all projects adhere to infrastructure and security best practices
• Define the vision for the product backlog for 2 teams and occasionally drive a project in addition to
• Primary contributor in the creation of the enterprise roadmap in collaboration with other product owners, development/engineering teams
• Ownership in refinement of stories and acceptance criteria
• Define Iteration: Prioritize needs of the backlog (juggle the triangle of scope, budget, and time) at the enterprise level monthly, quarterly, yearly
• Drives Iteration: Can effectively create a product/project and take it from the discovery phase to release. Accurate assessing product opportunities and risks
• Obtains primary buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and provides clear instructions and deliverables for the engineers
• Define, refine, and report key performance indicators for the software teams to provide clarity on productivity, technical health and factors that may be impeding them
• Team Ownership: 2 teams as the lead product owner
• Agile: Primary PO role in all agile ceremonies but also organize workshops with the Product’s users and Agile teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience training engineers in SDLC
• AWS and or Azure (nice to have)

Benefits

• Remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce
• Transparent, inclusive, and safe work environment
• Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Interaction with CEO through Coffee with Mark sessions
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more