Metal Toad is a strategic AI partner. We help our customers to use AI to build the engines of their future growth, aligning AI’s capabilities with their most important business opportunities. We are an AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI partner.
Our team includes consultants, software engineers, devops engineers, UX designers, project managers, marketers, and supporting staff. It should go without saying, but everyone working at Metal Toad should be interested in the impact of AI, and believe in a human-first, AI-enabled future.
Metal Toad is a fully remote company, offering all team members the ability to work from home.
Although Metal Toad is a remote company, we are currently seeking contractors residing in Brazil for this position. Compensation will be made in Brazilian Reais (R$), following the local currency of the country where the position is located. Due to legal limitations, we are unable to sponsor any type of visa.
To apply for this position, please submit your resume in English as a PDF.
Job Description
The mission for this role is to guide our clients to the best strategic product decisions for their unique organization and business goals. Product Owners at Metal Toad connect and translate between client business needs and technology solutions. You speak business values and are fluent in user stories. You bring a global view of development processes to your work, assisting in the creation of strategic vision and program development.
Responsibilities
Leadership
- Excels in striking a balance in focus between engineering, business strategy, and human relationships.
- Understand how to prioritize work effort and communicate that to the team.
- Maintaining awareness of both the external and internal competitive landscape, opportunities for expansion, customers, markets, new industry developments, and standards.
- Maintain a positive and respectful tone in all interactions.
Product Owner
- Work with the development team on the most elegant way to architect the solution driven by your intimate understanding of client needs and requirements.
- Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
- Identify and articulate client business needs and opportunities for growth.
- Serve as a trusted advisor for client’s technology strategy, including product planning, strategic roadmapping, and release planning.
- Act as a Product Owner developing, maintaining, and refining a backlog in Jira.
- Serve on a scrum team, representing business needs to the developers and ensuring tickets are completed successfully.
- Surface product risks and identify tactics to address them.
- Balance mastery of the technological craft with your empathy for clients.
- Serve as a guide and advisor to clients to move them forward.
- Educate and align the development teams on client requirements and serve as the client’s proxy with the development teams during the build cycles.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
- Agree with our
Corporate Values Statement. - Believes in the company's mission: to help people
- Believes in the principles of open source
- Advanced to fluent English communication skills are essential for this role
- 3+ years experience leading software applications and/or providing strategic advisory services and account management services
- Bachelor's degree or currently enrolled in Design, Administration, Marketing, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Proven ability to build relationships with a diverse set of people, including senior-level executives, R&D, product management, legal, finance, sales, and marketing experts
- Can clearly and concisely synthesize/communicate complex requirements and/or organizational problems and propose solutions while working through complicated, matrixed decision paths
- Professional use of technology backlog processes and backlog tools, like Jira, ClickUp, and Asana
- Ability to confidently lead a group in whiteboarding, concepts, and prioritization exercises
- Ability to lead cross-functional business and technical teams to provide timely issue resolution
Nice To Have:
- PSPO Certification or CSPO Certification
Please note that Metal Toad will never ask for payment or financial information during the hiring process. If you are asked for such information, it is a scam. Report it immediately.
Skills Required
- Agreement with the company Corporate Values Statement
- Belief in the company's mission to help people
- Belief in the principles of open source
- Advanced to fluent English communication skills
- 3+ years of experience leading software applications and/or providing strategic advisory or account management services
- Bachelor's degree or current enrollment in Design, Administration, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Ability to build relationships with senior executives and cross-functional R&D, product management, legal, finance, sales, and marketing stakeholders
- Ability to synthesize and communicate complex requirements or organizational problems and propose solutions through complicated, matrixed decision paths
- Professional experience with technology backlog processes and tools such as Jira, ClickUp, or Asana
- Ability to lead whiteboarding, concept development, and prioritization exercises
- Ability to lead cross-functional business and technical teams to resolve issues promptly
- PSPO or CSPO certification
What We Do
Metal Toad is a Cloud Partner who delivers AWS Machine Learning & Media Solutions. Not just an AWS managed services provider with a machine learning specialty, Metal Toad provides high quality consulting, development, application support, and managed services at an affordable rate via their hybrid onshore + nearshore North American & Brazilian team. We have helped develop award-winning consumer-facing applications for industry leaders like Sony, Daimler, Intel, the Golden Globes, Siemens Wind Power, ABC, NBC, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, & the Linux Foundation.
