Product Owner

About This Role

This Product Owner role involves providing a mix of business and technical direction for system design, development, testing, and deployment. It suits an individual who can collaborate with various teams, learn stakeholder strategies, and drive agile software development to successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, project managers, quality assurance, business teams, and technical support to provide business and technical direction on systems, design, development, testing, and deployment
• Learn stakeholder strategy, tactical approaches, priorities, requirements, and business processes
• Document business requirements and user stories, oversee and coordinate the development of technical specifications, and help enforce change control procedures
• Take initiative to spend time with all levels of users (formal meetings, informal meetings, observing work, etc.)
• Develop and maintain project schedules with appropriate input from project managers and scrum masters, including all necessary activities and dependencies
• Utilize organizational skills to document, categorize, prioritize, provide easy access to information, ask questions, follow up, and maintain communications
• Drive agile software development teams to successful delivery of projects and initiatives
• Act as the primary and trusted conduit for internal customers to define their business needs and document requisite requirements, user stories, and supporting artifacts

Requirements

• Experience with project management tools and methodologies, software development lifecycle, and problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to work on an agile software development team
• Ability to produce documentation including mockups, flowcharts, and other process diagrams
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
• Familiarity in working in and with cross-functional teams
• Exhibits strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, organizational, and teaching skills
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with people at all levels
• Established subject matter expert covering broad value areas within the Mouser enterprise
• Demonstrated extensive Mouser business acumen
• Expert leadership skills
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or equivalent discipline

About the Company

Mouser Electronics, founded in 1964, is a globally authorized distributor of semiconductors and electronic components for over 1,200 industry-leading manufacturer brands. The company specializes in the rapid introduction of the newest products and technologies targeting the design engineer and buyer communities. Mouser has 28 offices located around the globe, conducts business in 23 different languages and 34 currencies, and its global distribution center processes orders 24/7.