As a Sr. Product Owner at SADA, you will lead the execution of large-scale client(s) deployments, ensuring projects are completed within scope, on budget, and on time. In this role, you will be responsible for aligning solutions with end-user requirements, managing risks, and resolving issues efficiently.
Your responsibilities will extend to continuous stakeholder management, ensuring the overall success and strategic alignment of the project. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with UI/UX designers and development teams to ensure that product features are designed and built in alignment with user needs and technical feasibility. You will take full ownership of product delivery, overseeing backlog prioritization, feature development, and the successful implementation of Product Ownership best practices.
The ideal candidate will be energetic, innovative, enthusiastic, sharp, analytical, and eager to embrace responsibility while learning new skills. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic, and creative team environment. We are looking for individuals who seek long-term growth with SADA.
- Review process flows (Miro) to understand current state business processes
- Participate in deep dive with business stakeholders who may not have technical details
- Create process flows (Miro) to document future state business processes
- Review current state UI/UX designs (Figma), gap analysis, and work closely with the designer to either make changes to existing designs or create new ones that meet business goals
- Create product requirement documents (PRDs), including feature summary, business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Develop short-term and long-term product roadmap
- Collaborate with engineering team to breakdown user stories to tasks
- Ability to adapt to client’s need
Pathway to Success
#BeOneStepAhead: Be prepared, work with intentional effort and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates.
Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a fast-growing practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude, and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.
As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the individual contributor or management growth tracks.
Expectations
Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.
Training - Ongoing with first-week orientation followed by a 90-day onboarding schedule. Details of the timeline can be shared.
Responsibilities
- Outstanding proficiency in documentation
- Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
- Prioritize needs among scope, budget, and timeframe
- Oversee all stages of product development, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prepared tasks to work on
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Define product vision, road map, and growth opportunities
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Act as primary liaison between teams and stakeholders
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Anticipate user needs
- Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Analyze preferences and requests of end users, then translate into future iterations
- Follow our competitors and the industry
- Ensure product aligns with company mission and goals
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Ensure security of data with proper Agile framework
- Evaluate product progress at each iteration
- Plan/schedule for benchmarks, releases, and future upgrades
- Establish initiatives and align with cross-functional goals
- Prioritize defect resolution (bugs)
Requirements and qualifications
- Must be a U.S. resident
- Prior government experience is required
- Proven experience managing large, complex projects
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner
- Experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
- MA in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field or technical background
- In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Creative thinker with a vision
- Attention to detail
About SADA An Insight company
Values: SADA stands for inclusion, fairness, and doing the right thing. From our very beginning, we’ve championed a diverse workplace where we support and learn from each other, amplifying the impact we make with our customers. We’re proud that our teams are composed of contributors who represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer. Our five core values are the foundation of everything we do:
- Make Them Rave
- Be Data Driven
- Think One Step Ahead
- Drive Purposeful Impact
- Do The Right Thing
Work with the Best: SADA has been the largest Google Cloud partner in North America since 2016 and, for the seventh year in a row, has been named a Google Global Partner of the Year . This year, SADA was named a Google Cloud Global Partner of the year 2024. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group and Inc. Magazine, and was recognized as a Niche Player in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services.
Benefits: Unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, generous medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google-certified training programs and a professional development stipend.
Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for the last 10+ years in a row, garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers list for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads, and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.
To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact [email protected]. SADA complies with federal and state/provincial disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities.
What We Do
More than 3,000 clients served. Over 25 million users migrated. Numerous problems transformed into efficient, customized solutions. As an award-winning Google partner, year after year, we’ve helped our customers boost user experiences through data, amplify impact through improved collaboration, and transform their businesses with better technology. Our 20-year track record of expertise and in-depth know-how of the Google Cloud ecosystem means there’s no problem too big or goal too high. We’ve done it before, we’ll do it with you.
Bring us your most complex problems and your boldest ambitions. You’ll find the right attitude, the right team and the right approach that results in the shortest path to long-lasting impact. What we do is simple: We increase the capabilities of people and the performance of the organizations we serve. We’ll help you harness the immense power of Google Cloud to solve a business challenge, make your data actionable or transform the way you work. We obsess over the details and execute an exceptional customer experience, always.
Our technical expertise and get-it-done attitude helps you solve not just for today but for what’s next. From the start, we’ve been fueled by a passion for creating value for our clients. Our people come from every background, but we’re united by the drive to deliver – every step of the way.
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