Product Owner #214
Bullhorn is the leading global software provider for the staffing and recruitment industry. More than 10,000 companies rely on Bullhorn’s cloud-based platform to power their staffing processes from start to finish. Through our incredible products and services, we create raving fan customers, resulting in company growth that consistently offers new opportunities for our talent to advance their careers. 25% of our global workforce gets promoted or moves into a new role every year, expanding their skills and working with new people. Bullhorn is large enough to provide these exciting opportunities but small enough to maintain the energy of a startup, and we’re consistently ranked as a great place to work for our strong culture and rewarding career opportunities.
Our commitment to our employees: Every Bullhorn employee has a sense of belonging, a voice that is heard, and a clear path to success. Bullhorn offers unlimited planned vacation, great opportunities for career development, quarterly paid volunteer days through its philanthropic group Bullhorn Cares, and an open invitation to Bullhorn Allies groups, which celebrate and cultivate diversity and inclusion for all employees.
Our in-office employees enjoy a casual, collaborative environment with weekly catered-in lunch and breakfast, and quarterly social events. While working from the comfort of their own homes, our remote employees are provided a full equipment package with all the tools they need to perform their role. We use Zoom, Slack, and other tools to stay connected while we are remote.
As a Product Owner for Bullhorn, you will be responsible for defining and delivering key product features. You will work closely with customers, product leads and scrum teams to provide direction, guidance and support. The Product Owner role requires in-depth product knowledge, the ability to translate functional requirements into technical specifications, and an understanding of workflow and feature relationship.
Why this job is important:
The Product Owner works closely with agile development teams and is the nexus between Product, Development and User Experience. In this role, you will be responsible for making sure teams are working on the right things at the right time to deliver the best possible products to our customers.
As a Product Owner, a typical day might include:
A discovery call with users to validate the UX for a new feature
Writing user stories and going deep on requirements in grooming sessions with your team
Attending Standups with agile development teams
Writing release documentation & training cross-functional teams on new product enablement
Working with Product Managers, Architects, UX Designers & Developers to drive product development
Defining release and sprint goals for development team(s)Owning all operational aspects of agile development: epic breakdown, story planning & writing, sprint planning & delivery
Managing and resolving customer & internally reported product escalations.
Balancing resolution priority against roadmap commitments Ensuring the development team understands the value and impact of their work.
This job might be for you if:
You've loved every moment of the 2+ years you've spent working with products, getting into the weeds and being a go-to expert for your product
You enjoy collaborating with a team and have experience with Agile methodologies
You like dissecting challenges and coming up with solutions
You have some technical chops, potentially from being a developer or QA in the past!
Bonus points for:
Experience working in an Enterprise B2B SaaS-based organization
Experience in building process automation and AI products
Experience working on CRM systems
An undergraduate technical degree (Extra bonus points for an MBA!)
Experience with Bullhorn products
Experience in the staffing and recruiting industry
Bullhorn is committed to our core values and we are looking for people who exhibit these traits:
- Service - You go beneath the surface to solve problems.
- Energy - You build up your teammates and leave people positively charged.
- Ownership - You take action and own up to your mistakes.
- Speed & Agility - You go around obstacles and demonstrate urgency.
- Being Human - You consider other people's perspectives, laugh, and have fun.
Bullhorn is fully committed to equal opportunities. We aim to create a working environment free from discrimination. This means all job applicants and employees will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, race, religion, or belief, gender or sexual orientation.