Advantage Tech is seeking a Product Owner for one of our clients in the Kansas City area. 

Job Summary:

 This role will serve as Product Owner for our CRM platform.  The CRM platform is shared across multiple business groups. The Product Owner will serve as the representative of our line of business to ensure our needs are adequately represented both through enhancements, support, and inclusion with broader system updates. This person will serve as an integral leader in the organization responsible for ensuring systems properly support our business needs and continue to evolve with enhanced functionality, increased automation and efficiency, and absolute accuracy. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for ownership and prioritization of the technology solution delivery teams’ backlog.

• Ensures that business requirements and technical documentation are aligned with the business inputs by writing and/or approving business rules, user stories, integration dependencies, etc.

• Plays a significant role in quality control as the only team member empowered to accept stories as done.

• Advocates for business needs by applying a deep understanding of business processes, goals, and problems.

• Ensures product vision is communicated to the technology delivery teams.

• Accountable for attesting that the delivered outputs align with business requirements.

Key Activities:

• Performs most work independently with general supervision and direction from the product manager, sponsor, and/or stakeholder.

• Consults with management in decision-making.

• Intermediate understanding of technology delivery and product management. o Intermediate understanding of the business line industry.

• Assignments are typically of lower priority, involving low to moderately complex work and analysis.

• Typically manages one product.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, including in a matrixed project team model.

• Establishes credibility and trust within the team and with business stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Typically requires three to five years of experience in a combination of technology product management, or software development, and business line industry knowledge.

• Knowledge of applicable software development life cycle methodologies and frameworks(e.g. SCRUM, SAFe, etc.).

• SaaS CRM experience preferred o CSPO certification is preferred.