Product Owner

About US

At Particleblack, we drive innovation through intelligent experimentation with Artificial Intelligence. Our multidisciplinary team—comprising solution architects, data scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers—collaborates with domain experts to deliver cutting-edge R&D solutions tailored to your business.

Responsibilities

-Product Strategy: Assist product leadership in developing a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with market needs.

-Roadmap Planning: Lead the creation and management of the product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements that will meet customer and market needs in the most efficient way.

-Product Development: Create clear epics and features for junior analysts to translate into detailed stories that articulate business requirements with clarity

-Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering, UX/design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure seamless execution of the product development lifecycle. Serve as the primary point of contact for all product-related inquiries and decisions

-Product Releases and Communications: Facilitate the rollout of new features through alpha, beta, and general availability stages by working closely with customer-facing teams, analyzing feature impact, and preparing necessary communications.

-Market Research: Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and potential threats. Use this data to inform product decisions and strategies.

-Customer Engagement: Engage with customers regularly to gather feedback, understand their needs, and validate product ideas. Act as the representative for customers in the assigned product area, taking responsibility for the end-to-end customer journey and touchpoints.

-Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze product performance metrics to assess the success of program/product initiatives. Make data-driven decisions to optimize product features and user experience.

-Leadership: Mentor and guide junior product managers / business analysts and other team members. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the product team.

-Experience: 5 - 8 years of experience in product management, with a focus on SaaS products. Proven track record of successfully launching and managing SaaS products at scale.

-Domain: Prior experience in US Federal / State Health and Human Services (HHS) based projects (Child/Family Welfare, SNAP, TANF, Other SLED programs) or US Healthcare ecosystem projects (Payer, Provider, Medicare/Medicaid)

-Skills: Strong understanding of the SaaS business model, preferably in a US government context. Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

-Communication: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

-Software Engineering: Solid understanding of software development processes and technologies. Ability to work closely with engineering teams to drive product development.

-Leadership: Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with experience working in cross-functional teams, managing competing priorities and mentoring junior product managers.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

-Experience in agile development methodologies.

-Familiarity with product management tools such as Jira, Productboard, Miro or similar.

• -Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment.