Position Overview
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Baxter Planning is a dynamic and rapidly growing company setting the standard for SaaS in the service supply chain planning space. We are developing many new products and solutions to build on our success in the market with our Prophet, LynX and Snapshot applications, as well as our AI capabilities. Baxter Planning combines the flexibility of a start-up with the stability of an established company, leveraging 30 years of industry expertise to support a rapidly growing customer base. We offer excellent benefits, an exciting and supportive work environment, and excellent work-life balance.
As a Product Owner at Baxter Planning, you will need to collaborate as a cross-functional leader for your scrum team by working closely with the product manager, customer cohorts, Engineering teams & other internal stakeholders. The PO will engage in defining the scope of the initiatives, epics & user stories, the sizing, and delivery of new functionalities, ensuring compliance with the defined product architecture, roadmap, and feature acceptance criteria.
Purpose, Scope and Responsibilities:Work closely with the Product manager in translating the product roadmap into feasible functional increments.Groom product initiatives into well-defined, sized and documented epics & stories with clear acceptance criteria, definition of ready, and definition of done for the development team.Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs; translate them into product requirements and align with the product roadmap.Execute in line with product vision and framework set by the product strategy team.Provide backlog management, iteration planning and elaboration of user stories.Prioritize & make recommendations on release scope to maximize business value.Act as a champion of SCRUM principles and practices.Work with the product manager on the enablement of internal departments to adopt, implement, support, market and effectively sell the new product capabilities.Job Requirements:Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.Applying trade-off driven decisions based on available data in managing multiple priorities simultaneously.Ability to work in teams & communicate across multiple levels across the organization.Ability to solicit feedback, understand customer needs and translate those to achievable scope.High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability.Bachelor's degree in Business/Engineering or other quantitative field.3+ years of professional experience in a similar role.Strong domain knowledge in supply chain preferred.Experience in software development projects preferred.In-depth knowledge of Agile/SCRUM frameworks.Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence.Strong communication skills, verbal and written.Fluency in English.
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