Senior Product Owner (AE ERP)

As a Senior Product Owner at Unanet, your primary responsibilities include defining and delivering specific features for our ERP platform that cater to Architecture & Engineering firms. You’ll work closely with Product Management to understand project goals and develop user stories and requirements. You'll also validate functionalities and workflows, manage the product backlog, and ensure engineers have the necessary resources for sprint engagements.

To qualify for the Senior Product Owner role at Unanet, you need at least 5 years of experience in a software product owner role within an Agile environment. Strong technical writing skills, the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders, and experience in managing B2B software enhancements are essential. Familiarity with ERP or accounting software and platforms like JIRA will further strengthen your application.

The Senior Product Owner at Unanet is crucial in shaping the overall product strategy. This role involves researching and designing product requirements, refining roadmaps based on project goals, and prioritizing features based on customer needs. You’ll also engage with cross-functional teams and other product owners to ensure alignments in the overall strategy and execution.

Unanet fosters a collaborative and supportive environment for its Senior Product Owners, emphasizing teamwork and customer focus. You’ll be encouraged to engage with various stakeholders, contribute insights towards the product roadmap, and embrace innovative strategies while nurturing a fun and dynamic workplace culture.

The salary range for a Senior Product Owner at Unanet is $122,500 to $140,000 per year, along with eligibility for employee equity and discretionary bonuses. This competitive compensation package reflects our commitment to rewarding talent and maintaining a motivated workforce.

Absolutely! When asked this question, share specific projects where you utilized Agile methodologies. Highlight your role in defining user stories, managing backlogs, and collaborating with development teams. Use examples to demonstrate how you adapted to changes and used feedback effectively in your decision-making process.

Discuss your approach towards prioritizing features by focusing on customer value, technical feasibility, and business goals. You might want to mention prioritization frameworks like MoSCoW or the RICE scoring model, and how stakeholder input helps you assess which features will deliver the most value.

Share your methods for collecting customer feedback, such as surveys, focus groups, or user testing sessions. Talk about how you analyze this feedback to inform user stories or feature enhancements. Successful examples where customer feedback resulted in positive outcomes will enrich your response.

Think of a specific instance where stakeholder needs clashed. Explain how you facilitated discussions to help each party understand other perspectives and reached a consensus. Highlight your conflict resolution skills and the ultimate resolution that benefited the project.

Make sure to emphasize your communication and collaboration skills. Discuss how you regularly engage with your team, share updates on the vision, and facilitate meetings to ensure everyone is aligned. Using visual aids like product roadmaps can also be a helpful tactic.

Describe your validation process, focusing on both functional and user acceptance testing. Explain how you ensure a feature meets predefined success criteria and how you involve stakeholders in the validation phase, using output from testing sessions to analyze results and iterate accordingly.

When faced with tight deadlines, organizational skills are paramount. Talk about how you prioritize tasks, communicate with your team to set realistic expectations, and adapt plans to manage scope effectively. Highlight a successful project where you met a deadline under pressure.

Provide insights on any ERP systems you’ve worked with, discussing the features you focused on and how your experience translates into understanding complex integrations. Mention any technical skills relevant to mapping data flows or merging systems that relate to the Senior Product Owner's requirements.

Explain the importance of clear communication when crafting user stories. Discuss your techniques for breaking down requirements into understandable chunks, providing context for the stories, and engaging with your team to clarify concerns during planning or grooming sessions.

Discuss how putting customers at the forefront guides product direction and helps ensure market success. Explain how you gather and analyze customer insights, and frame decisions not just based on data, but also on understanding user personas and pain points to build a solution that truly resonates.