Senior product owner

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Position Summary

The Senior Product Owner will join the Midstream Logistics IT Product Line. This role offers an exciting opportunity to guide the strategic direction and delivery of innovative digital solutions that reimagine and optimize business capabilities for Marathon Marine, Rail and Trucking organizations, and connected business segments across the value chain. The Senior Product Owner will identify, collect, and evaluate new digital ideas, technologies, extensions, or enhancements to assess their potential in meeting business needs and achieving strategic, measurable outcomes. The position requires frequent collaboration and application of design thinking techniques such as user stories, wireframing, and prototyping, to define product features and ensure value is delivered iteratively. May work with external partners to select and customize technology products and/or services.

Key Responsibilities

• Builds customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product.
• Builds and prioritizes product roadmaps and plan releases. Ensures alignment between teams to prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives.
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development.
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Value Chain Optimization (VCO), User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align on product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases.
• Coordinates dependencies with peer organizations, such as Hybrid Cloud and SAP IT, and third-party organizations
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
• Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products.
• Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives.
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience
• Product Owner Agile certification preferred
• 5+ years of relevant product owner experience required
• Proven experience in leading multidisciplinary teams through digital innovation is required.
• Knowledge of logistics business capabilities preferred

Skills

Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.

Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.

Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.

Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant experience

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Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Additional locations:

San Antonio, Texas

Job Requisition ID:

00018485

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Education:

Bachelors: Information Technology

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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