Job Description

Product Owner

ST6 (Seal Team Six) is an elite team of battle-hardened software operators dedicated to building enduringly great software companies. Our focus is on professionalizing and scaling software businesses from $100 million to $500 million. We partner with top-tier private equity software firms such as TA, Hg, Insight Partners, and Genstar to acquire and build one platform company per year. Our companies are not the largest or flashiest, but they are among the best-run software businesses, creating value for customers and shareholders at an accelerated pace. To date, our team has built six platform companies, each culminating in multiple liquidity transactions with multi-billion-dollar valuations.

The Product Owner is a key role within our agile development teams, serving as the essential liaison between the teams and stakeholders to ensure our software products deliver substantial value to our customers. Reporting to a Product Manager, this position requires a deep understanding of customer needs, product direction, and overarching business objectives. The ideal candidate will prioritize the product backlog, define user stories, and collaborate closely with development teams to ensure the timely delivery of product features. With a strong background in software development methodologies, exceptional communication skills, and the capability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment, the Product Owner is pivotal in driving the success of our agile development process.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure flexible and timely delivery of products by applying agile methodologies
• Secure and maintain stakeholder approval on product requirements, ensuring alignment throughout the release cycle.
• Negotiate and communicate project priorities effectively, ensuring they are well-aligned with the organization's strategic objectives
• Ensure sprint readiness by preparing well-defined, estimated, and prioritized user stories for upcoming sprints.
• Achieve consistent sprint completion rates by effectively coordinating cross-functional teams and managing dependencies.

Competencies

• Focuses on identifying critical success factors, making strategic choices about what to prioritize and what to neglect based on impact potential
• Capability to guide and influence stakeholders and team members to achieve company goals
• Detail-oriented and organized, this individual prioritizes effectively, excels at time management, and anticipates well in decision making
• Manages projects efficiently, ensuring completion on time and within budget constraints.
• Manages the software development life cycle to optimize product development and maintenance.
• Cleary scopes projects, and delivers them incrementally to ensure adaptability and effectiveness.

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