Junior Product Owner (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Juvare is a SaaS software company focused on developing innovative enterprise resilience solutions for government agencies, corporations, healthcare providers, and higher education. They are seeking a Product Owner to organize, prioritize, and assess work for their Scrum team, gathering feature requirements and managing product releases. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring that software solutions meet client needs.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside clients and subject matter experts to develop business and system use cases, functional, non-functional and operational requirements

• Define epics, user stories, flow charts, system requirements and business rules to assist in the development of software.

• Participate in design sessions lead by UX team to ensure that the solutions meet business needs.

• Lead PI (Program Increment) planning, sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions to transform features into stories.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies like sprint stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

• Provide support to software development and QA staff as needed.

• Act as subject matter expert during discovery and requirement meetings.

• Understand and be aware of Juvare information security policies and standards.

• Work with our Project Managers managing work; assist with operational transition, internal and client training, knowledge transfer and SOP documentation

• Document the final as-built configuration following completion of implementation, as well as demo end-to-end solutions to clients for acceptance

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or college preferred or equivalent experience

• Experience writing requirements and developing process flows.

• Experience in consulting, software development and implementations in a client facing role.

• Demonstrated ability to understand complex software workflow platforms and collaborate with technical personnel.

• Desire to understand the emergency and operational management mission of our clients and how our software solutions support its continual improvement.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrating collaboration and adaptability.

• Ability to organize, plan and manage follow up action.

• Familiarity with project management and/or software development tools (e.g., JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Confluence).

• A passion for technology, curiosity to learn new skills/technology with a fail-fast approach.

• A passion to provide excellent value to clients.

Preferred:

• 2-3 years recent experience as an Emergency Manager for State/Local governments or working to support emergency managers in this role.

• Familiarity with standard emergency management practices and ICS, FEMA Disaster Assistance programs, and/or prior experience working directly with emergency management agencies.

• Ability and willingness to travel 5% (average over course of a year).

Company:

Juvare is a worldwide leader in emergency preparedness and critical incident management software. Founded in 2015, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, team size 201-500 employees, currently Growth Stage. Juvare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.