View All Jobs

Product Owner - AIM

US-CO-Denver
  • Apply

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India.

Wage Notice $63,000 + VIP Bonus Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

A product owner’s main objective is to translate business problems and requirements into user stories that enable a development team to create the best solution to solve customer problems.  A product owner at Vertafore is a member of an energetic agile team of Software and QA engineers and is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and ensuring that developed solutions achieve business requirements.

You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to understand business processes/goals and identify business problems that may be effectively resolved with technology solutions. You’ll work closely with Sr. Product Owners and / or Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements into a backlog of user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved in order to build the best solution.  As a Product Owner you will also prioritize the development backlog and work with Sr. Product Owners and / or Product Managers to plan and sequence the work appropriately.  As features or user stories are delivered, you’ll work closely with QA to ensure the problems are solved and requirements are met.

Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.

 

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

·       Translate business problems and requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement

·       Develop and maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation

·       Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met

·       Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA

·       Clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed

·       Collaborate with product management, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment

 

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications:

·       1-3 years of professional experience, preferably working with B2B SaaS software

·       Experience working within a cross functional organization

·       Experience supporting customer needs

·       Experience communicating effectively with multiple parties, including customers

·       Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment within generally defined practices and select methods to obtain solutions

 

Additional Requirements and Details:

·       Travel required up to 10% of the time.

·       Located and working from an office location.

·       Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.

·       Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.

·       Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).

·       Frequent sitting and/or standing.

*We are currently working remotely due to COVID19.

Qualifications

The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics.  Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance.  Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.

Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs.  Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.

Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

 

We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.

We want to make sure our recruiting process is accessible for everyone.  if you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact recruiting@vertafore.com

Just a note, this contact information is for accommodation requests only.