Technical Product Owner

Summary

Join Skillsoft's Enterprise Data Solutions team as a Technical Product Owner. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand their data needs, translate those needs into actionable insights, and utilize an agile backlog and roadmap to align those needs to strategic initiatives. This role requires strong analytical and technical skills, including experience with SQL and Python. You will be responsible for defining and prioritizing product features, managing multiple backlogs, and facilitating communication between development teams and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of product owner experience and a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field. Skillsoft offers a competitive salary, a company bonus program, and full benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field – engineering, finance, data science, statistics, economics, or other quantitative
• 2-5 years of product owner experience
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and comfortability running agile ceremonies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• An ability to foster relationships with partners
• Ability to independently plan and iterate on assignments to arrive at appropriate deliverables (dashboard, analysis, recommendation set, etc.) to address partner business needs
• Ability to establish subject matter expertise in an assigned business area in order to provide key actionable recommendations to business partners
• Analytical skills: outstanding analytical and creative problem-solving abilities, experience in developing deep analytical insights about users of digital products and services
• Technical skills: SQL, Python, knowledge of engineering concepts like ETL/ELT
• Self-starter with sense of urgency to drive and implement insights

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure correct requirements for development work
• Define and prioritize product features and manage multiple backlogs
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Manage and minimize technical debts
• Create 6, 12, and 36 month roadmaps aligned to strategic priorities
• Facilitate communication between the development team(s) and stakeholders
• Lead agile ceremonies
• Understand context of data and develop test cases for test driven development
• Participate in solution design discussions, review functional specifications, and validate proposed solutions against business requirements
• Work with our squad leads on defining work and creating agile stories to execute on
• Understand and assess data quality and reliability
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in data analytics and business intelligence

Benefits

• Target base salary range for this job requisition is anticipated to be $136,000 to $170,000 annualized
• Participation in the Company Bonus Program
• Full benefits