At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
We work in hybrid mode 3+2, at a minimum of 3 days at the office, with mandatory Wednesdays and Tuesdays, and 2 days at the home office.
The location of our office is Holandská 873/6, Brno – Štýřice, 639 00.
Your role:
In the role of Product Owner for the Design Team, you will work closely with the Product Managers, Engineering Product Owners, and other team leads and be responsible for planning & prioritizing design tasks and deliverables through all stages of the development lifecycle, as well as helping guide and manage the design team deliverables. Additionally, this role will liaise with Design Team leaderships and Product Management teams to ensure that design team activities align to customer value, roadmaps, and release schedules.
Your Impact:
- Working with Product Managers, Architects, UX Designers, other Product Owners, and Development teams to ensure the business, quality, and feature goals are met for each release.
- Collaborating with R&D and Product Managers to translate business requirements into user stories.
- Maintaining a prioritized backlog of user stories, features, and defects.
- Working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Team (Scrum of Scrums, Big Room Planning, Product Increment sessions, etc.) identifying and influencing process improvements across the department.
- Participate, and where appropriate lead, daily Stand-ups and regular Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Retrospective meetings.
- Organize design intake and planning meetings and ensure all dependencies are accounted for and all roadblocks are removed, to ensure a stable, predictable cadence of enhancements that produce customer satisfaction.
Qualifications:
Must have:
- Strong understanding and experience working with Agile methodologies.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Relevant experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
- Data & metrics-driven approach to project tracking.
- Understand the challenges and nuances of software releases, upgrades, and migrations for on-premise and cloud/SaaS products.
Nice to have:
- SAFe experience.
- Higher technical knowledge and experience, namely in a previous Design, Developer, Tester, or DevOps capacity.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, HCI or MIS
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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