Bitovi: Technical Product Owner
Bitovi
Headquarters: Chicago
URL: https://bitovi.com
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 100% remote role. At this time, we are placing a preference on nearshore candidates who can work at least 6 hours overlapping with the US CT zone during normal business hours.
Bitovi seeks a Technical Product Owner to join us as we transform technology delivery. If you have ideas on how to make technology delivery more collaborative, validation-driven, and swift, we want to work with you!
This role is to start as an hourly contractor on a client project. Pending the initial project goes well, there is an opportunity to extend the contractor agreement and work on other projects.
WHO YOU ARE
You’re experienced working on technology delivery teams and interfacing with stakeholders. You thrive on using process and structure to fight through chaos and disorganization. You have the expertise to help define, prioritize, and execute a technical roadmap that enables teams to deliver a quality software product to end-users.
You’ll excel in this role with Bitovi if you have:
- 4+ years related technology experience, 2+ years of technology project/program management experience
- BA/BS degree or related experience
- A proven skillset in leading or guiding software projects at a multi-team scale with executive-level stakeholders
- Experience creating, communicating, and managing detailed program or project plans that span across multiple stakeholders and partners
- Experience reviewing processes and identifying pain points to deliver operational efficiencies
- Experience engaging in product discovery, planning, and driving technical product value
- The ability to break down mockups and wireframes into actionable stories
- The ability to lead estimation processes with teams while managing dependencies, resource capacity, and schedule
- Interest and experience working with clients directly and joining new projects
- Excellent oral and written communication, along with strong interpersonal skills, negotiation experience, decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with matrix working relationships and best practices of Agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, and XP
- Experience and/or certification as an Agile product owner and scrum master
- Consulting experience is great to have
WHO WE ARE
Bitovi works with companies that want a true partner in building outcome-focused apps. Our collaborative approach is driven by validation to deliver the swiftest route to the most valuable solution. We’re driven by the desire to provide value to our clients, the technology community, and our incredible team.
Every day, we design and build a wide variety of high-profile applications with tests, full docs, and a deployment process in place. We talk to our clients directly, guiding them through the process, identifying potential problems and unknowns, and tackling challenges. We help one another freely. We keep a Slack channel called ask-help, which is constantly used.
Our fully remote team comprises about 70 developers and designers in the US and Canada.
WHAT YOU’LL DO AT BITOVI
Consult and Manage. You’ll consult and meet with the client regularly to learn about their needs and update them on the progress of the projects. You’ll provide product process leadership and work collaboratively with the technical delivery team. The bulk of your day will be spent on the following:
- Actively participate in roadmap planning and help align product initiatives with business objectives and strategies
- Implementing Bitovi’s approach to Agile program management to produce accurate, actionable plans at scale. You can read more about our methodology on the Agile Program Management training page in the Bitovi Academy.
- Deliver business and technical expertise to the feature teams to complete the design, coding, testing, and implementation phases of the project life cycle
- Develop technical requirements from business requirements and prioritize them. Break requirements down to workable sizes and user stories
- Managing and appropriately escalating risks, issues, and changes
- Managing and refining the product backlog, assembling sprints, and performing release planning
- Participating in the release process as the product expert to surface any issues prior to the release
- Ensuring that roadmaps and the product backlog are visible, transparent, and straightforward to brand partner
WHAT WE OFFER
First and foremost, you’ll work alongside a thoughtful, talented, and amazing team that supports and challenges one another to do their most exceptional work. You’ll enjoy remote work with competitive hourly pay on a per-project basis, with the opportunity to extend into a long-term contractor agreement.
HOW TO APPLY
Share a resume, and answer the short questions to apply. We do read these!
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/bitovi-technical-product-owner
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