Senior Product Owner

About the Role

The Senior Product Owner will demonstrate management skills and leadership in a highly matrixed environment and must be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders on numerous competing priorities. The candidate will be moderately technical with a proven record of creative solutioning and problem solving in addition to developing multi-year technology roadmaps for products.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in information technology application design or development
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years' experience as a product owner or product manager experience
• Ability to explain product vision, business objective, technical feasibility, define requirements
• Ability to drive engineering accountability for technical implementation against defined features and requirements
• Excellent communicator, both written and spoken
• Experience with Agile Development methodology and tools (CSPO or CSM certification a plus)
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence and SmartSheets
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions, particularly when faced with complexity, ambiguity, and aggressive timelines
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Strong project management skills (PMI certification a plus)
• Strong process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem-resolution skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with hospitality industry applications and processes
• Ability to manage and work with on-shore and off-shore service providers
• Familiarity with Client's existing information architecture, application portfolio, and information management methodology
• Graduate degree