Litera

Job Description

Brief Description

A Product Owner works closely with prospects and customers, internal customer support, sales, but most of all engineering teams to guide new features and products from idea to release by working with scrum teams to define and execute changes to products. A Product Owner spends much of the time working to understand key customer workflows to identify gaps, create solutions to solve problems that drive value, translate business needs and technical requirements into epics for scrum teams. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the products your teams create and support.
• Act as the “messenger of the market” from the outside-in to the rest of the organization.
• Analyze various market segments and collaborate with leadership to choose the best ones to pursue.
• Develop and maintain a three-year roadmap for our products to illustrate our vision and plan into the future.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders such as product marketing, sales and customer success on the creation of positioning for your products.
• Create detailed user stories for current and future products based on the market’s problems.
• Facilitate release and sprint planning processes, scrum ceremonies, and empower team commitments for release and sprint delivery.
• Collaborate with teams, monitor and track release and sprint milestones, and facilitate mitigation of issues and risks.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from sunsetting legacy products to prototyping and testing new features/products and ideas.
• Know why we are winning and losing in the market, and drive changes to our product and processes to create improvement.
• Keep a finger on the pulse of our competition, and develop strategies and tactics to reduce the threat.

About you

• At least 4 years of experience as a product manager or product owner in agile
• environments, although more experience is welcome.
• Tech savvy and passionate about building products.
• Comfortable using collaboration and CRM tools such as Teams, M365, JIRA, Confluence and Salesforce.
• You have excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to take complex business requirements and translate them into a form that’s widely understandable.
• Metrics-driven: Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information.
• Experience with best practice agile scrum development and lean startup principles.
• You can think through and advise about how small changes or requests can have strategic impacts across all levels of the business.
• You’re comfortable speaking with a wide range of stakeholders, willing to travel when appropriate, and able to seek out conversations and discussions yourself.
• You are self-motivated with curiosity about how our customers work, and passionate about delivering great user experiences.
• You’re comfortable balancing competing priorities while working with and solving problems for customers. You don’t shy away from awkward situations or being clear when you can’t commit to something.
• You have attained a bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Bonus if you have experience in the legal or legal technology industries, especially experience with legal Document Management Systems and/or M365.

What Sets us Apart?

• Work with a team that has a proven track record
• Our company growth will challenge, and encourage you to broaden your skills
• Generous allocation of paid time off, and flexible work hours
• Available merit-based cash bonus plan
• Many opportunities for rewards and recognition

Litera is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.