Product Owner

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Houston, TX
Senior level
Legal Tech • Financial Services
The Role
The Product Owner manages the product lifecycle of assigned products, including vision and roadmap development based on stakeholder and customer input, conducting market research, and ensuring successful product delivery and user feedback implementation. They collaborate with various teams to align product functionality with business needs and customer pain points while maintaining a focus on continuous improvement.
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Job Description

We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Product Owner to manage the product lifecycle for assigned products. This includes managing the vision and roadmap for products and services based on input from stakeholders, customers, market research and industry insight. 

This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate activities have been carried out for new applications. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent communication, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.

This position is ideally located in Houston, Texas, but can be based in any of our US offices. We offer a hybrid schedule which is primarily remote with in-office meetings as needed each month. The position reports into the Application Portfolio Manager. 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

  • Developing and maintaining advanced functional knowledge of business process related to assigned applications and use of systems integrated assigned applications.

  • Defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, release plan, and ongoing prioritization assigned applications; including defining the minimum viable product for releases

  • Lead and managing the product lifecycle from concept to decommissioning; including managing the product and release backlog

  • Understanding and Defining customer problems, use cases, value propositions

  • Validation of customer pain points and requirements

  • Partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases to gain approval for product or service investment

  • Partnering with Enterprise Architecture in vendor selection and management to ensure alignment to product delivery strategy

  • Coordinating with UX to ensure design meets functional needs

  • Ensuring traceability of requirements from stakeholders to product release

  • Partnering with the Change Management and Training teams to develop and implement a successful change management and training program

  • Soliciting user feedback for product and delivery improvement

  • Collaborating with peers to determine resource needs on projects and sustaining teams.

  • Conducting and participating as needed in reviews for requirements, application design testing strategy, and change control activities

  • Communicating status and change requests to stakeholders

  • Point of Contact within the Application Services team to share overall customer needs, vision, and direction. Agile execution through management of the product backlog, epics, user stories, iteration plans and feature acceptance. 

  • Coordinating with stakeholders to develop acceptance criteria, sample data, and User Acceptance Testing.

  • Providing inputs into end-user training, materials, and support

  • Prioritizing features for releases based upon agreed Critical Success Factors – including features and bug fixes

  • Making tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule within agreed constraints

  • Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously improve and enhance products. 

Other duties

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information science, or Business -related field preferred

  • Minimum three years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner

  • Proficient in using Product, and Requirements management tools like Azure DevOps

  • Proficient with Excel and other core Microsoft applications

  • Requires knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and must be able to execute within both Agile and Waterfall deliveries of the SDLC

  • Proficiency in analyzing software applications and assessing individual features and modules to determine fit for business purpose

  • Preferred experience in the legal industry

  • Preferred experience with HR solutions

  • Preferred certifications: Product Owner Professional (PO)

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.

In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren). Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.

Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact [email protected]. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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Top Skills

Agile
The Company
Denver, Colorado
8,733 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,500 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; consumer markets; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices

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