Senior Product Owner

Independently leads the system development effort by providing vision to the team, outlining work in the product backlog and coordinating with the business owner to prioritize based on business value. Has overall responsibility for the product/system success in meeting the needs of the stakeholders – both internal and external.

Gathers, validates, translates and prioritizes business and technical needs into a logically sequenced product and feature roadmap

Owns delivery of product requirements and associated materials to engineering

Works closely with the Business Analyst to develop these artifacts and drives consensus building and sign-off of them with all stakeholders including external ones when applicable

Widely considered across the organization as the subject matter expert for the system and consistently advocates for the system with all stakeholders – internal and external

Resolves complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist

Drives alignment, requirements gathering for features and resolution of run-the-business user stories that require involvement of other LOB(s) in order to ensure solutions meets the customer’s needs

Coordinates and prioritizes product backlog

Represents Senior Management in the making of product functionality decisions and compromises and is able to do so in way that that delivers the maximum amount of business value into the product while considering the inherent constraints of budget and timeframes

Manages impacts to multiple publics and business areas, adjusting deliverables as needed

Active participant in scrum ceremonies, including retrospective; works with the Scrum Master to develop and implement identified scrum process improvements

Works in partnership with other product owners to ensure cohesion across products and ensures that dependencies between development teams are effectively managed

Creates and delivers information at appropriate level for audience at all levels of the organization, including presentations and status updates. Represents the scrum team and the work of the team to product/system stakeholders

Collaborates and evangelizes detailed product roadmap plans, feature details and technical dependencies with other business units and divisions

Recognizes risk triggers and impediments and is able to clearly communicate situation to agile teams and help drive mitigation steps through collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders

Knowledgeable across multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, UI, sales, customer support, training, finance and marketing

Represents the organization’s interests through frequent interactions with external customers for the purposes of sales, training and market input into the roadmap

Participates in the creation of product launch plans and help ensure supporting product documentation exists such as accurate sales collateral, product functionality guides, implementation support documentation

Has a comprehensive understanding of the needs of the market, the customer and how those drive the company’s business strategy

Ability to own and manage feature planning for multiple products on a shared “product platform”

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field or equivalent experience

Six years of experience making business process recommendations and preparing business cases including cost benefit analysis

Six years of experience with business process analytics using Excel, flowcharting, activity diagrams and workflow models

Demonstrated ability to document, propose, negotiate and present approaches and solutions

Ability to visualize and create plans for future business outcomes and changes

Thorough understanding of business implications, project interdependencies and system interfaces

Strong conflict management skills

Proficient at facilitating meetings, and negotiating across all levels of the organization

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to multi-task and work in a team environment

Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization

Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment the in performance of his/her job duties

Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets.Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please

Why This Job Might Be a Good Fit

• Fully remote full-time position
• Senior product role at VSP Vision
• Competitive salary: $79k–$134k USD
• Open to candidates in United States