Product Owner

EPM Product Owner Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Product Owner to lead a fast-paced team in expanding a set of innovative solutions. You will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of JustPerform, ISW flagship Budgeting, Forecasting, Reporting, and Consolidation product. This includes the technical and functional architecture from design to operation.

As a key product team member, you will work closely with product managers and engineers to transform the strategic product roadmap into a well-defined set of features and deliver them successfully from one release to the next. You will interface with customers and internal stakeholders to continuously understand and identify business problems and ensure we are building solutions that meet their needs while delivering quality and an unrivaled user experience.

The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative with the ability to lead cross-functionally and inspire our teams while remaining focused on results and value creation. The candidate will possess the technical skills to work comfortably with our engineers while balancing a big-picture vision that can be communicated to our leaders.

What will you do?

• Collaborate with Product Managers to formulate our product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Own the product backlog, balancing conflicting priorities to determine prioritization
• Own the release planning and sprint planning processes, including setting release and sprint goals, and successfully delivering on those goals
• Provide an active role in mitigating risks and issues impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals
• Ensuring acceptance criteria are met with current release and conducting sprint reviews from a business/customer perspective.
• Producing documentation with Product Managers and Marketing to support development, launch, support, services, and sales and marketing initiatives
• Performing detailed product demonstrations for external and internal audiences to communicate the benefits of the solution
• Serving as a subject matter expert to assist with sales and support as needed

How will you do it?

• Drive & Grit – Operate in a fast-paced environment with a focus and determination to achieve high-quality results
• Strategic Thinker – determine opportunities and threats through comprehensive analysis of current and future trends with the ability to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way
• Product Focus – Translate market and customer feedback into requirements, driving product delivery through an agile release process
• Customer Focused – passionate about creating value for our customers
• Cross-functional leadership – Lead and drive execution across Development, Product Management, Support, and Customer Success

Minimum qualifications:

• 3-5 years’ experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• 3 years’ experience with EPM software/industry.
• Bachelors in computer science, engineering, or a similar field
• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principals
• Ability to balance conflicting priorities and negotiate a backlog with engineers and leadership
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Certifications: Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, Scrum Product Owner

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **

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