Job Title:

Sr Product Owner

Department:

Engineering & Science

Country:

United States of America

State/Province:

Arkansas

City:

Lowell

Full/Part Time:

Full time

Job Summary:

Under general direction, this position is the enterprise subject matter expert and manages product backlogs and review iteration outcomes to ensure the business success of software development projects. Primary owner of the relationships across the enterprise for internal, external, and third party vendors and provides support to the Client, verifying the business value delivered by the Product and how it aligns with the Client's strategy. They manage the projects, relationships, and contractual agreements with our third-party vendors. They actively support the Client from the business point of view and provides guidance in assessing Product opportunities and risks. They take advantage of the Product KPIs (and other business metrics) to optimize the Product. This position evaluates impact across platforms and communicates to appropriate executive stakeholder.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides enterprise level knowledge of impact across products and platforms presenting data to client and executive level leadership.

• Works closely with the Client, defining the next iterations of the Product and plan their releases; presents the Team’s perspective and point of view to the Client, and build trust between the two sides.

• Evaluates the KPI metrics and suggests new solutions to increase the Product’s business value. Verifies the business value delivered by the Product and how it aligns with the Client’s strategy.

• Provides strategic focus for the development team, to ensure the right things to be focused on and completed during the development process; organizes workshops with the Product’s users (based on the Discover/Define approach) to discover and validate hypotheses, as well as work with architecture the best solutions for the Product.

• Uses dedicated techniques for road mapping (e.g. MOSCOW, Kano, or Pareto) and selected tools to describe the Product vision (e.g. business model canvas, lean canvas, or vision box).

• Provides inputs for applications technical designs and data models to deliver user-friendly product solutions.

• Contributes to the design of UX workflows for the product.

• Guides and mentors Product community in business domain knowledge and product owner practice

• Manages the 3rd party vendor relationship participating in negotiation and contractual agreements.

• Work with Product Management to solicit architectural guidance to ensure BU compliance with future 360 Platform product direction

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Computer and Information Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or foreign equivalent, or suitable combination of education, experience and training, &/or military equivalent; Plus 5 or more years of experience acting as a Product Owner and/or certification in Agile fundamentals.
• OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or related field, or foreign equivalent; Plus 3 years of experience in Engineering & Technology.

Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of Agile process and principles
• AND/OR Demonstration of the following skills and abilities through education, certifications, military, or other experiences:
  • Knows and embodies Scrum values
  • Understands Product Owner involvement in Scrum events
  • Experience drafting and elaborating backlog items
  • Understanding or experience with contractual agreements & vendor management
  • Knowledge of high level architecture and impacts

This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship.

Compensation:

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include skills, education, experience, geography, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.  This position may be eligible for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes in accordance with the terms of the Company’s bonus and incentive plans, as applicable and in effect from time to time.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for full-time positions, subject to applicable eligibility requirements, as may be in effect from time to time: medical benefit, dental benefit, vision benefit, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, paid time off commensurate with tenure (includes vacation and sick time), six weeks of paid maternity leave along with two weeks of paid parental leave, and six paid holidays annually.

Education:

Bachelors: Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelors: Computer Engineering (Required), Bachelors: Management Information Systems (Required)

Work Experience:

Business Analysis

Certifications:

Job Opening ID:

00555667 Sr Product Owner (Evergreen) (Open)

“This job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.”

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. is committed to basing employment decisions on the principles of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, persons with disabilities, protected veterans or other bases by applicable law.