Product Owner

Mutual Mobile is a digital agency that has helped deliver 700+ solutions/products to our notable clients over the past 12 years.

Our clients look up to Mutual Mobile for its expertise in conceptualizing, defining, and delivering world class products/solutions.

This position requires a mindset, and experience, of delivering world class products with a high degree of collaboration with all stakeholders including the client’s Product Manager and the delivery team (design, development, operations, and quality assurance). This position will be the primary point of contact for our clients and team members.

Apart from the planning, leading, organizing, and motivating Agile teams through the product development lifecycle, the Product Owner would be responsible to translate the Client’s or Client Product Manager’s strategy into actionable tasks and work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements. These projects will be from different industry verticals, thus offering a wide variety of exposure across different verticals/domains that need adaptability to learn, innovate, and change.

Description

You Must

Strategic Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end product - from product definition to project delivery for Mutual Mobile's (a service-based organization) Client (s).
• Own the product roadmap definition and phases/milestones planning along our Client (s) Product Manager.Translate the product roadmap into actionable tasks and work with cross-functional agile teams to execute those requirements. Be obsessive over technology and use your product knowledge to add value to define product’s scope, schedule, and roadmap.
• Be creative in solving product and project-related issues/blockers related to product scope, budget, and timeline. Help navigate Client (s) through difficult situations and steer clear of any/all distractions based on the situation/demands. Showcase a consulting mindset by acting as a solution provider. Bulldozing blockers and resolving conflicts to keep the team focused and efficient.
• Think of the big picture of the overall product development roadmap beyond the delivery of current active intermediate goal.
• Work in a highly iterative environment consisting of short feedback loops to deliver incremental product progress up through delivery.
• Build consensus. Align stakeholders and development teams around common measurable product goals. Work cross-functionally to gain stakeholder alignment, support product launches, and provide high-level guidance/direction for uncovered issues.
• Be accountable for on-time, on-budget, high-quality deliveries.

Tactical Responsibilities:

• Conduct product discovery/grooming sessions to build a product backlog in collaboration with the Client's product manager. Envision incremental releases of the product and plan(effort, scope, budget, timeline).
• Drive client interactions and guide the Client to define, track, and deliver the product roadmap /product lifecycle.
• Be involved in all stages of product development from exploration to delivery while collaborating with a highly skilled development team (Engineering, QA, and Design) and other key stakeholders along the way.
• Lead the team to build the product per the scope, budget, and timeline agreed with the Client.
• Follow Agile ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint planning/Retro / Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases.
• Lead 1-2 development pods (teams) executing in an Agile Scrum environment, defining and documenting all User Stories, running refinement sessions, and supporting planning to enable execution against a defined product strategy.
• Ensure that the Product roadmap is visible, transparent, evident to all, and shows what the pod will work on for upcoming sprints.
• Build consensus with all the stakeholders and the teams where multiple parties are involved. Identify project/product stakeholders early and work with them to ensure their expectations are managed effectively in sync with the benefits defined in the business case.
• Ability to push back on unrealistic expectations and build consensus between all the stakeholders, backed with previous experience/case studies/data.
• Maintain a keen focus on maximizing business value and minimizing time to market.

Requirements

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of overall technology + managerial experience
• 3+ Years of strong product owner experience in:
  • Defining and delivering software products/solutions.
  • Managing US / UK-based clients with direct interaction.
  • International travel experience for project engagements.
  • Working with remote distributed cross-functional teams.
  • Leading cross-functional software development teams.
• Project delivery experience (SCRUM Master/ Project Manager)
• Technical background/experience is preferred
• A vibrant personality who exudes “Positive Energy” & brings a “Can-Do attitude”.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills and have the ability to work independently with little oversight/direction.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, prioritization, and decision-making skills.

Not required, but awesome:

• BE / BTech or equivalent required; ME / MTech or equivalent and/or MBA is a plus
• Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Professional, Certified Scrum Trainer, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Experience with pursuits and pre-sales activities is preferred
• Subject matter expertise in mobile technologies and software project methodologies
• Hands-on experience with JIRA or Confluence

Benefits

Why work for Mutual Mobile? We make great products. We craft beautiful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as HEB, Google, lynda.com, Citi, Nike, and Under Armour come to us for our deep experience in mobile and emerging technology — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to building those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive & visual design, engineering, and business management to deliver solutions that actually matter.

You’ll love working here, because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. If your passion extends beyond the role, we’ll invite your views and assistance with improving our culture, systems and processes. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies-so you’ll be able to work on a variety of projects with many different types of people.