Product Owner

Description

Hybrid - MA and/OR NY area

 If best candidate is not near one of said offices, then mostly working from home with 1-2days a month meeting in the office. (Albany, Buffalo, Hicksville, Northborough, Syracuse, Waltham).

• 2-5 years of Business analysis/product experience
• Strong experience with Salesforce / Salesforce Energy & Utilities Cloud
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks, including planning, organizing, problem solving and meeting established deadlines.

Job Purpose:

We are seeking an adaptable and results-oriented Product Owner for our Clean Energy Systems Support team. This role will aid in the migration of Client's legacy InDemand (DSM) system to state-of-the art Clean Energy 2.0 system that is being built. This position can be based out of MA or NY.

• This position will specifically be filling a Product Owner role within Agile/Scrum and the Scaled Agile Framework (SaFe) delivery process to primarily support the Business As Usual (BAU) activities within Energy Efficiency(EE)/ Electric Vehicle(EV) space. This position will support up to 2 scrum teams.
• The Product Owner will be tasked with working with our business partners and product managers to understand and prioritize scope, engage in project requirement meetings, and then decomposing those requirements to define ‘what’ our assets need to do to accomplish business and program objectives and communicating them to the development teams.
• This unique role provides the Product Owner with the opportunity to work very closely with business partners as well as with clinical development and architecture team members.
• As a Product Owner for the Business System's Support Team, you will work with the Product Manager of an Agile Squad you are responsible for driving the product vision, managing the product backlog, and ensuring that the development team delivers high-quality products that meet customer needs and business objectives.
• You are also responsible for delivering robust and effective problem management for the Clean Energy Squad resulting in the provision of a stable and reliable Clean Energy digital platform and services.

Key Accountabilities:

• Works with business/project stakeholders to identify business needs and use that as input into documenting application/system scope and requirements documentation with the goal of ensuring that scope and solutions support short- and long-term company objectives and needs.
• Collaboratively works with development leads and architects during scope, requirements, and design processes to fully document scope, requirements, and design related to the business need, and estimate work effort to implement scope.
• Prepares detailed scope/requirements documentation along with priority designations that development teams will use to plan, develop, test and implement application/system functionality.
• Acts as expert resource and scope/requirements lead to development teams in all phases of the development and implementation process.
• Coordinates activities with other IT and Business organizations in large groups to ensure successful development and implementation of assigned work.
• Develop full technical knowledge of all phases of application/system scope definition and requirement analysis.
• Analyzes and revises existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
• Great communicator with ability to summarize complex technical topics for all stakeholders and varying levels of the organization.
• Provide systems expertise to system users, business partners, and other internal/external customers including trouble shooting issues, as well as identifying and correcting inefficiencies.
• Provides input for test strategies and plans; ensures test strategies cover business and system scenarios and owns signing off on plan

Knowledge & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years of Business analysis/product experience
• Strong experience with Salesforce / Salesforce Energy & Utilities Cloud
• Understanding of CRM, sales funnels, and fulfillment workflows in Salesforce is a huge plus
• Familiarity with JIRA/JIRA Align a plus.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and interpretation of data skills
• Ability to influence and build relationships and demonstrate team leadership skills
• Excellent communication, writing, presenting, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to establish and maintain productive relationships/interactions up to the executive level.
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks, including planning, organizing, problem solving and meeting established deadlines.
• Experience with writing queries and creating reports
• Experience with writing and testing scenarios for software systems
• Knowledge of digital product implementation fundamentals, digital ways of working, and Agile Safe methodologies a plus
• Experience with the Energy Efficiency or other Clean Energy Products would be an added plus