The Associate Product Owner will manage the product backlog, collaborate with teams, prioritize features, and ensure the delivery of high-value updates in an Agile environment.
About Paradigm
Paradigm offers a suite of legal practice software solutions that help lawyers manage, automate, and grow their firms. More than 50,000 lawyers across 170 countries use our products to shift the paradigm of how they practice law. With four world-class all-in-one legal practice management platforms - PracticePanther, Bill4Time, MerusCase, and LollyLaw - in addition to payments and accounting solutions powered by Headnote and TrustBooks, Paradigm empowers lawyers across the spectrum of practice area, geography, and business needs. At Paradigm, we are fast-paced, ambitious, and unified by a common vision to build the best legal technology products in the world.
What is the role?
Bill4Time is looking for an Associate Product Owner to define, manage and prioritize the product backlog to continuously deliver high value updates for our customers. You will ensure the product strategy, vision and features are converted to iterative value during the product life-cycle, including concept, development and evolution. You will work closely with Product Design and Engineering on execution of the product roadmap.
In this role, you will:
- Work with internal teams and users to help determine current and future needs of our customers and translate these into requirements that can be used by development
- Own and manage the development backlog of features and bugs
- Be highly analytical and use qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize the backlog by customer impact and ROI
- Work effectively across engineering, design, customer success, QA, sales and marketing teams to deliver new features and product enhancements
- Be comfortable in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks.
- Be customer focused and can empathize with the users of our products and what they are trying to accomplish
- Work as a problem-solver and a go-getter who isn’t afraid to dive into projects and get your hands dirty
- Articulate clearly, both written and orally, to build consensus, communicate ideas and deliver on-time
Qualifications
- 1+ years as a product owner / business analyst / product manager (bonus if in the legal industry or with B2B SaaS products)
- Demonstrated success and experience in writing and executing on user stories, test cases, and launch activities
- Experience with Agile development methodologies including planning and facilitating sprint ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and inspire stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
- Excellent with user-experience design principles and data analytics
- Skills we love: JIRA, Confluence, GSuite, MS Office, Salesforce, MixPanel, AppCues, Google Analytics, Figma, and Miro
Benefits / Perks
- Competitive salary
- Paid vacation + sick and parental leave
- Remote working flexibility
- Budget for home office improvements
- Company culture that encourages work/life balance
- 100% paid PPO medical, vision, and dental insurance, 401k matching, equity grants
- Bi-annual virtual company retreats and many other fun activities to bring our team together as often as possible!
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