Product Owner
Brookfield, WI or Remote
At Colibri Group, culture is a critical part of our collective success, and we live our values everyday: Love, Joy, Boldness, Teamwork, and Curiosity. These values guide our interactions with each other, our customers, and the community.
Position Overview
As a Product Owner on the Platform Management team, you will be responsible for aligning the business around a product vision, strategy, and roadmap that solves customer problems and drives business value. To do this, you’ll work with key stakeholders in the business to understand market trends and business objectives. You will use this knowledge, along with a keen understanding of the competitive landscape to create a vision, strategy, design, and plan for how your product line will meet customer needs and achieve business objectives.
As this position serves the enterprise across multiple industries, your product line vision and plan has an eye to bringing value across the enterprise. You are adept at prioritizing ideas and objectives based on speed to market and opportunity. As a self-starter, you know the next move to keep the team on track, have excellent communication skills, and are comfortable working in a dynamic environment. You have technical acumen and can keep up with Engineering but aren’t afraid to ask for clarity or question assumptions. You are organized and can create clear project plans with key milestones and dependencies. You can succinctly articulate requirements in standard Agile user stories in Product Requirement Documents with explicit outcomes and key results. If you love bringing products to life (in both buy and build solutions), are passionate about making a difference in people’s lives, and are an easy-going, resilient team player, we want to meet you!
Position Requirements & Major Responsibilities
- Make the vision tangible, get buy-in, and regularly communicate through presentations, documentation, and assets that showcase value to the customer and progress to goal
- Conduct competitive analysis revealing opportunities to differentiate
- Contribute to the creation of business cases that help executives and leaders make investment decisions
- Lead major initiatives as a leader and product owner from strategic planning to product launch
- Collaborate with UX to create test plans, mockups, and prototypes
- Develop a roadmap and project plan for launch with clear milestones and deliverables
- Write user stories and product requirement documents (PRDs)
- Collaborate with other Product Owners and Engineering to ensure understanding of requirements and design
- Participate in daily scrum meetings, planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Organize and maintain the product backlog
- Ensure that prioritization, implementation, and execution achieve business and customer goals
- Engage in design and functional validation of all product enhancements
- Work with other Business Unit leaders and Product Owners to define the product strategy, roadmap, and release prioritization for assigned areas
- Determine opportunities for success, explain considerations, risks, and trade-offs
- Expertly demo functionality that showcases benefits to the customer and business
- Train and support products to increase organization effectiveness
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited institution is preferred. Applicable experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of one year Product Management experience in SaaS or PaaS solutions
- Experience in building a strategy and vision of a software platform or application is required
- Preferred experience in both B2C and B2B business models
- Experience in the Online Learning industry, especially professional education is a plus
- Jira and Confluence experience required
- Experience with Monday.com a plus
- Strong technical knowledge of e-commerce, learning management systems, integrations, and SaaS platforms
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and willingness to be a team player
- Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills and ability to promote a team environment
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and good follow through skills who displays a passion to test and deliver high quality software
About Colibri Group
Colibri Group is building the future of professional education. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Colibri Group is one of the pioneers of online professional education, introducing some of the first web-based professional education courses in 2001. Students and professionals start and advance their careers through the company’s online and in-person learning solutions for licensing, continuing education, test preparation and professional development.
Today, we proudly serve over one million customers each year and employ more than 900 mission-aligned professionals. Our family of brands are the leading online professional education platforms in their respective end-markets. We provide a holistic learning experience for students and professionals to achieve more and thrive throughout their careers in real estate, financial services, teacher education, healthcare, valuation and property services, accounting, among other professions. Visit www.colibrigroup.com for more information.
Colibri Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Colibri Group prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.