Product Owner (Remote), Avenu Holdings LLC, Centreville, VA
Avenu Holdings LLC -
Centreville, VA,
US
Product Owner (Remote)
Date Posted: 2024-06-14
Job description
Job Summary:
The Product Owner is a key liaison between the market needs and business delivery of a solution. In this role the Product Owner will work with the product and engineering team to ensure the prioritized backlog is efficiently delivered through building a shared understanding with user experience and engineering, and motivating, managing and communicating across the business and within the team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Avenu Summary:
Avenu provides local governments with ways to achieve more predictable revenue that supports growth, fuels modernization and ensures compliance with mandated but underfunded programs. Avenu s revenue enhancement and administrative solutions find and recover license, permit and other taxes that cities and counties struggle to collect. The insights and improved fiscal posture enables governments to deliver expected services and sustain a high quality of life for residents.
Avenu is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Selection for a position will be made without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, political affiliation, marital status, non-disqualifying physical handicap, and age.
The Product Owner is a key liaison between the market needs and business delivery of a solution. In this role the Product Owner will work with the product and engineering team to ensure the prioritized backlog is efficiently delivered through building a shared understanding with user experience and engineering, and motivating, managing and communicating across the business and within the team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Independently manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that the team always works on the most impactful projects
- Create detailed stories, clarify stories as necessary to support the development teams
- Lead the planning of product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Confirm that executed stories comply with Avenu s Definition of Done
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, marketing, sales, and customer support, to ensure successful product releases
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to gather and validate requirements and feedback
- Work closely with senior leadership to inform product strategy and provide updates on product progress and milestones
- Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to inform product decisions and strategy
- Ensure product aligns with user needs, business goals, and technical capabilities
- Facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Monitor and report on product performance, quality, and usage metrics
- Perform other duties as assigned
- 2+ years' experience working in Agile methodology and a deep understanding of various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle; preferably in Product Owner or Business Analyst role.
- Public sector or public sector software experience desired, tax administration, short term rental or revenue management solutions a plus.
- Experience using tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, and Figma and utilization tools like Segment, Dovetail, and Amplitude.
- Understanding and experience with technical solutions and components (APIs, Middleware, Services, SQL
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with both technology/development and business partners ability to translate between these two constituencies
- Excellent written communication skills and have excellent communication skills and client presence
- Ability to create user journeys, user stories, wireframes, mockups, and basic diagrams to convey ideas
- Able to juggle multiple competing priorities
- Ability to persuade, encourage and motivate others to beat deadlines
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate as the employee works in an office setting, at an individual work station, using telephone and computer
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for most of the day
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a printer/copy machine
- This position needs to occasionally move about inside the office
- The person in this position frequently communicates via telephone
Avenu Summary:
Avenu provides local governments with ways to achieve more predictable revenue that supports growth, fuels modernization and ensures compliance with mandated but underfunded programs. Avenu s revenue enhancement and administrative solutions find and recover license, permit and other taxes that cities and counties struggle to collect. The insights and improved fiscal posture enables governments to deliver expected services and sustain a high quality of life for residents.
Avenu is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Selection for a position will be made without regard to race, religion, national origin, sex, political affiliation, marital status, non-disqualifying physical handicap, and age.