Product Owner - PremierOne

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

The product owner is responsible for the ownership and managing of the backlog for their assigned value stream(s), contributes to the product roadmap, and understands customer and market needs for the PremierOne product.

The product owner works in partnership with the product manager and relies on their technical knowledge and background to define user stories and acceptance criteria, engage with assigned Engineering teams, and groom the backlog. The ability to deeply understand technical architecture, define engineering behind features, and translate high-level customer functional requirements into technical for development is a crucial skill. In addition, the ability to describe the impact of technical requirements on customers, non-technical sales, and support resources is a must.

This position will be responsible for filling the agile product owner role for the PremierOne product. In this role, the product owner champions the needs of the user, customer, and other stakeholders throughout the development process to ensure that what is delivered meets the goals, objectives, and desired outcomes of the project. To be successful, one must manage multiple projects simultaneously, at various stages of their development, from idea to completed feature.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships with UI/UX teams and work in close partnership with research and design colleagues

• Actively involved in initiative and epic refinement as an integral member of the Product Management team

• Responsible for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog, including user stories, defects, and research spikes

• Review and prioritize the backlog as part of the preparatory work for release and sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs

• Contribute to the roadmap

• Involved in release planning, reviewing vision, and content presentations to assigned engineering team(s)

• Collaborate with the team to detail user stories with acceptance criteria

• Maintain the proper flow of features, user stories, and acceptance criteria in the backlog

• Agree on accepted story completion, including validating that the story meets acceptance criteria and that it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD)

• Understand the scope of needed research spikes and collaborate with Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures

• Collaborate with the team and any other stakeholders in the team demo

• Lead and participate in the appropriate agile ceremonies
   

Desired Skills

• Agile/Scrum experience

• Firm understanding of software design, user interaction, and user interface design

• Deep technical knowledge in software development methodologies

• Experience utilizing product and project management tools such as Aha!, Jira, and DevOps

• Technical skills and knowledge of on-prem or cloud services and development

• Align with the enhanced focus on prioritizing and developing important aspects of mission-critical products, such as availability, reliability, and stability

• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written

• Polished presentation skills for internal and external audiences

• Proactive, enthusiastic attitude toward challenging problems 

• Capable of quickly evaluating and prioritizing new projects alongside customer feedback

• Strong ability to take complex user requirements and distill them into a format that is intuitive and clear to developers as well as non-technical staff

• Ability to research and analyze project requirements from various stakeholders

• Build consensus among stakeholders

• Ability to work independently and as part of a diverse team spread across multiple continents in a fast-moving environment

• Ability to multi-task among various assignments

• Experience within the Public Safety industry is a plus

• Understanding of product management and product ownership principles

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.