Associate Product Owner - PracticePanther

Your Impact

PracticePanther is looking for an Associate Product Owner to define, manage, and prioritize the product backlog to continuously deliver benefits for our customers. You will ensure the product strategy, vision, and features are converted to iterative value during the product life-cycle, including concept, development and evolution. You will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering on execution of the product roadmap.

Who You Are

You love to talk to internal and external stakeholders and are invigorated by convincing others of your point of view in a professional and respectful way. You will work with internal teams and users to help determine current and future needs of our customers and translate these into requirements that can be used by development. You have an understanding of SaaS products and ideally have some experience working in or around the legal industry and lawyers.

In this role, you will:

• You own and manage the development backlog of features and bugs
• You are highly analytical and use qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize the backlog by customer impact and ROI
• You work effectively across engineering, design, customer success, QA, sales, and marketing teams to deliver new features and product enhancements
• You are comfortable in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks.
• You are customer focused and can empathize with the users of our products and what they are trying to accomplish
• You are a problem-solver and a go-getter who isn't afraid to dive into projects and get your hands dirty
• You articulate clearly, both written and orally, to build consensus, communicate ideas and deliver on-time
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 1-2 years as a product owner / business analyst / product manager (bonus if in the legal industry or with B2B SaaS products)
• Demonstrated success and experience in writing and executing on user stories, test cases, and launch activities
• Experience with Agile development methodologies including planning and facilitating sprint ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and inspire stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Excellent with user-experience design principles and data analytics
• Skills we love: JIRA, Confluence, GSuite, MS Office, Salesforce, MixPanel, AppCues, Google Analytics, Figma/Invision, and Miro

Who is the ideal candidate?

• You are a problem-solver and a go-getter who isn't afraid to dive into projects and get your hands dirty
• You articulate clearly, both written and orally, to build consensus, communicate ideas and deliver on-time
• Ability to engage, influence and inspire stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Excellent with user-experience design principles and data analytics

Why should you join Paradigm?

Paradigm offers a suite of legal software solutions that help lawyers manage, automate, and grow their firms. More than 40,000 lawyers across 170 countries use our products to shift the paradigm of how they practice law. With five world-class legal practice management, payments and accounting solutions – PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase, Headnote, and Trustbooks – Paradigm has the perfect tool for any law firm. Paradigm is backed by Francisco Partners.

Diversity is in our DNA. We are lawyers and tech enthusiasts, but also dancers, engineers, designers, singers, bakers, runners, police officers, photographers, readers, guitarists, gamers, travelers, volunteers, knitters, coaches, parents, and teachers.

Simply put — we are a people-first business. Your professional and personal growth is essential to our success. We value the individual, not just the role you own.

That people-first mentality stretches across all teams and reaches each and every individual. It's our bread-and-butter, and it's one of the many factors that led us to achieve the status of Great Place to Work in 2021.

About PracticePanther

PracticePanther is a leading solution in legal practice management software. Founded in 2012, the company has grown at unprecedented rates and now serves tens of thousands of customers in 170 countries. The company's SaaS solution is designed to be robust, intuitive, and user-friendly and includes capabilities such as client and case management, time tracking, billing, expense management, payment processing, calendaring, and much more for law firms. PracticePanther is a part of Paradigm, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners in California.

Benefits/Perks

• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation + sick and parental leave
• Remote working flexibility
• Budget for home office improvements
• Company culture that encourages work / life balance
• 100% paid PPO medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401k matching, equity grants
• Bi-annual company retreats and many other fun activities to bring our team together (physically or virtually) as often as possible!