LeaseQuery is seeking a Product Owner to join our growing team. If you are a problem solver, collaborator, and product builder who would like to be a part of our Product team helping to continue our growth, and maintain our great reviews on G2 & Capterra then this position might be for you. The Product Owner plays a key role in capturing the business, functional, and technical requirements necessary to implement new products or features within the LeaseQuery product suite.
What you will be doing:
- Works with product managers to understand the product vision and review documented features
- Responsible for breaking prioritized features down into buildable user stories
- Attends all scrum team ceremonies and leads team refinements.
- Manages the team backlog by prioritizing relevant stories and accommodating urgent sprint changes
- Responsible for notifying stakeholders of demo content and requesting stakeholder attendance at demos
- Process customer service escalations and work with other product owners and engineering to route them to the appropriate development resource
- Serves as the voice of the product at the team level
- Manages all UAT testing of new features and enhancements in each product iteration
- Consults with PM on releasable stories, provides final verification for go/nogo on release content related to the product
- Constantly grooms pending backlog items to maintain an available workload for the team
- Partner with scrum master to remove informational and prioritization impediments for the team
- Collaborates with UX to ensure design is properly detailed in the stories and executed appropriately during the sprint.
What skills and experience we need you to have:
- 2+ Years in a Product Owner role as part of a scrum team
- CSPO or SAFe PO/PM preferred
- Accounting or financial services experience a plus
- Key Skills:
- Writing – communicate information effectively to project stakeholders, internal customers, and technical groups. Also shown in clear verbal communications as well.
- Interviewing – talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
- Analytical ability – critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, translate up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
- Interpersonal – interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts to capture requirements and resolve conflicts among project stakeholders.
- Facilitation – lead requirements elicitation and review meetings.
- Time Management – ability to prioritize your work and successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Preferred personal characteristics:
- Quick learner and self-motivated
- Enjoy exercising adaptability and flexibility required to work in high-growth startup culture
- Proactive problem-solver, even in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity
Benefits
- Flexible PTO (including 11 holidays and your birthday off)
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Great health benefits with multiple plan option
- Option to choose between in office, fully remote, or a hybrid work environment for all employees
- Casual dress environment (when in office)
- Catered lunches every Tuesday and Thursday
- Company events each quarter
- Signing stipend for a work-from-home setup
- Free gym membership at our office
- Annual employee development program stipend of $2,000 for each employee
- Flexible parental leave with 10 weeks paid leave for ALL new parents
- Fertility/adoption assistance
- Annual tutoring stipend for your children
- Mentorship program available immediately
- Regular team outings
- Advancement opportunities based on results, not politics
- Culture that emphasizes inclusiveness driven by our REDI Committee
About Us
LeaseQuery simplifies complex accounting with our innovative FinTech SaaS technology. Our products, used by more than 2000+ organizations in 87 countries, are top rated for user satisfaction and ease of use by G2, and our company has appeared on the Deloitte Technology’s Fast 500 list and Georgia’s Fast 40 list among many other recent accolades over the past several years.
During the past decade, our CEO, George Azih, grew LeaseQuery from a one-person company to a workforce of 280+ representing one of the fastest-growing FinTech companies today. As we move into our next phase of growth, we're looking for passionate and dedicated people who want to invest their energy to align with our company's long-term goals.
LeaseQuery is an equal opportunity employer to all persons, free from restrictions and prejudice based upon race, color, creed, religion, sex, domestic relationship status, parental status, family status, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, and disability status. LeaseQuery maintains a drug-free workplace.