Technical Product Owner, Software

Responsibilities

• Create, manage/groom, own, and prioritize the product backlog with end to end ownership
• Be the product expert for your product area
• Understand and analyze product requests/requirements and translate them into increments of work for the team
• Clearly communicate development requirements in Epic and User Story formats
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, scrums, syncs, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and other meetings
• Act as a liaison between the team and product management 
• Identify and address risk areas, blockers, and concerns
• Answer questions from the development team to ensure product functionality meets the expectation of the customer and/or stakeholder by liaising with the product manager
• Make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Work with Product Managers to understand product strategy and vision and provide the agile development team with clear vision, direction, and understanding of the product backlog
• Provide content to release and application documentation for internal and external customers
• Build high-value products from existing ideas and help develop new ideas based on customer needs and business goals
• Empower and collaborate with our engineers and designers to build the best products possible
• Analyze, understand, and share learning from experimentation to build a strong knowledge base of the product

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering preferred
• 5-10 years of extensive, hands-on experience in the semiconductor, biotech automation, or similar industries
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps workflows, queries and dashboards is a plus
• In depth understanding of Agile within regulated environment
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Prior experience with FDA regulations and ISO, cGMP, QMS standards
• Creative, self-motivated, flexible to work in a small company environment and assume a wide variety of tasks
• Work history with several successful iterations of highly automated instrument design and development (non-biotech industry experience is OK)
• Desire to be part of a rapidly evolving organization, with a compelling technology, and taking products and processes to the next level
• Self-awareness, integrity, authenticity, and a growth mindset