Lead the implementation and management of the Company System (CDS) to reduce unplanned downtime. Champion customers and business stakeholders as a leader of Agile teams' implementation of the Platform Services vision and roadmap. Drive the development and lifecycle management of platform services capabilities.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Title: Digital Product Owner (100% Remote)
Location: Remote
Email Address: davidm@kyyba.com
PR: $66.50/hr on W2
About Kyyba:
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.
At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.
Job Description:
Must Have’ skills and experiences:
• Define and prioritize the product backlog for Ecommerce and API features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (UX, engineering, marketing) to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Own API specifications, versioning, and integration strategy for partners and developers.
• Monitor KPIs for Ecommerce (conversion, engagement) and API performance (uptime, scalability).
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and development teams.
Qualifications:
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in Ecommerce and API-driven environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and backlog management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Education: Bachelor's degree.
Position Summary:
Leveraging your unique combination of business and technology knowledge and experience, you will help lead the implementation and management of the Company System (CDS) which manages and provides equipment meta data to other systems that are used by our customers, our partners, and organizations to reduce unplanned downtime.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
-Champion customers and business stakeholders as a leader of Agile teams’ implementation of the Platform Services vision and roadmap, leveraging your unique combination of technical and business knowledge and experiences.
-Drive the development and lifecycle management of platform services capabilities that power reduced customer unplanned downtime and optimizing equipment performance.
-Maintain and ruthlessly prioritize and refine the teams’ backlog with an intense focus on delivering business value and the ability to set and manage global stakeholder expectations accordingly.
-Participate in Program Increment (PI) preparation and planning, building and maintaining the team backlogs, iteration planning, system demos for customers and internal stakeholders, and Inspect and Adapt events to address impediments and enable continuous improvement.
-Engage customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to determine business requirements, technical considerations, and strategic objectives.
-Collaborate with digital product management, engineering and operations peers to deliver strategic and tactical plans and objectives
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:
-Knowledge and practical experience in Scaled Agile Framework environment as a Product Owner or Product Manager of digital customer and partner solutions.
-Certified as a Scaled Agile Product Owner.
-Knowledge and practical experience with cloud-based applications product ownership, product management, or development, with telematics-based IoT solutions preferred.
-Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to customers, partners, and a broad range of technical and non-technical business stakeholders, participating in the sales cycle, and handling sensitive customer escalations
Additional Role Details / Responsibilities:
-Collaborates with business management to identify short and long-term business priorities. Heavily involved in program backlog refinement, preparation for Program Increment planning, and participation in planning events.
-Defines and drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories; Build, edit, and maintain the Team Backlog of user stories, defects, and enablers; Primary responsibility for maintaining the flow of just-in-time story elaboration.
-Practices Lean/Agile leadership; contributes to vision and Program backlog; owns team backlog and implementation.
-Accept user stories as done, including validation the story meets acceptance criteria, has appropriate acceptance tests, and complies with the Definition of Done (DoD).
-Understand the scope of enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist decisions and sequencing of technological infrastructures.
-Understands Feature planning and prioritization for capabilities; Primary source for story detail and priorities in Iteration Planning, establishes story acceptance criteria; accepts stories into the baseline; Applies Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to guide development, decrease rework, and increase flow.
-Review and accept stories in the Team demo, participate in the Iteration Retrospective and the Inspect and Adapt workshop.
-Applies different approaches to convince others to change their opinion or plan, and wins support from others for ideas; able to build support with peers without direct lines of reporting across a matrix organization.
Competencies:
-Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset - Advocates for and leads others in the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking in support of adopting and applying the 9 SAFe principles and practices for the organization.
-Agile Systems Thinking - Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems to ensure the economic success of the solution.
-Lean Portfolio Management, budgets, and Economic Framework - Applies Lean and systems thinking approaches in support of strategy, investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance; Evaluates working systems. Manages Epic investments and dynamic budget adjustments to minimize overhead through funding and empowering Value Streams while maintaining financial and fit-for-use governance to minimize overhead; assesses and supports decision rules that align to the financial objectives of the Solution to guide the economic decision-making process.
-Program Backlog Management and User Story Elaboration - Identifies, refines, prioritizes, and sequences backlog items using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) to ensure the economic success of the solution; determines the details of a product feature to ensure that any unanswered questions about it are answered so that development can proceed.
-Building High Performance Teams - Identifies and applies critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices in the creation of high-performing Agile teams to construct high-quality, well designed technical solutions.
-Planning and Managing Ceremonies - Plans, schedules, and leads ceremonies that create a cadence for the team to maximize productivity, promote collaboration, maintain transparency, and inspect and adapt so the team can continuously learn and improve.
-Business Insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
-Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
-Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
-Global Perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
-Manages Conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
-Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Education, Licenses, Certifications, Experience:
-College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in business or relevant technology-related program is required.
-SAFe® Product Owner/Agile Product Manager (POPM) certification highly preferred.
-This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
-Business knowledge with knowledge and practical experience of the Lean methodology, principles and tools are preferred.
-Experience working in an Agile environment is preferred.
Disclaimer:
Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Kyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.”
It is the policy of Kyyba to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact Kyyba at 248-813-9665
Rewards:
Medical, dental, vision
401k
Term life
Voluntary life and disability insurance
Optional Pre-paid legal plan
Optional Identity theft plan
Optional Medical and dependent FSA
Work-visa sponsorship
Opportunity for advancement
Long-term assignment with opportunity for hire by client