As a SharkNinja Product Owner, you will drive technology innovation in SharkNinja’s mobile applications. You will help create the long-term strategy, vision, and roadmap, with a high degree of ownership over the critical features and mobile experience for our customers.

This role is inherently cross-functional - you will work closely with engineering, design, analytics, robotics, and executive teams to set technology strategy and then define and prioritize features. You'll bridge technical and business worlds engaging with matrixed teams and you must drive internal stakeholder and partner engagements necessary for the on-time releasing of our apps.

As a Product Owner, your role will be to take business requirements and convert them into mobile features and products. You will work on translating business goals into requirements for the Robotics and Mobile engineering teams. You’ll be responsible for driving key features as new capabilities are enabled on Apple and Google’s mobile platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Build and own a vision, strategy and multi-quarter product road map
• Break the vision into epics and stories and prioritize and own the backlog(s) for your dedicated engineering team(s)
• Lead teams in a fast paced agile environment, running and participating in key agile ceremonies, such as backlog refinement, standup, demos, retrospectives and sprint planning.
• Train, coach, and evangelize Agile and Lean practices to minimize waste and maximize speed of value to customer/business: user-centric design, Design thinking, MVP and closed-loop feedback-driven iteration, Hypothesis/Outcome focus
• Work closely with our Customer Insight, Customer Experience and Analytics teams to understand our customers needs and develop solutions that drive their engagement
• Work with internal project stakeholders from marketing, sales, analytics, robotics and executive management to translate customer needs into a product.
• Work closely with engineering and UX to own and dive deep into backlogs , definition of done and technical details
• Maintain competitive and marketplace awareness via research, patterning, and 3rd-party analysis of current best-in-class and emerging/advanced techniques, within and beyond robotics to identify ways to differentiate our solution. 
• Effectively explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, while also translating long term customer and business needs to technical teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of directly applicable experience as a product owner in a software organization
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices (especially Scrum and / or Kanban), methodologies and tools. direct hands on experience with writing user stories, grooming product backlogs and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever changing environment
• 2+ years working in mobile app development + deep knowledge of iOS and Android platforms
• Excellent teamwork, written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• Proven management of complex product development cycles and highly technical solutions
• Track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Preferred Qualifications

• CSPO or equivalent Agile Product Owner certification
• 3+ years working with IoT or robotics
• Bachelor's degree with a technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience and ability to work effectively with remote teams

At SharkNinja, our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation, and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do. At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL of our associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.