Position: Product Owner - on-prem Storage and cloud Storage
Company: GlobalLogic
Experience required: 3y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Description**
The product is a set of software-defined storage systems, which provide scalable distributed shared file system for professional media production and real-time media delivery. The solution enables true storage virtualization for any media application.
The project is a distributed team with co-workers located in Kiev, US and Poland sites.
The team goal is to deliver solutions which are used by world’s biggest broadcasters and post production houses as 24 * 7 systems all over the world.

Technology stack: C/C++, Azure, Python, JavaScript, Git, JIRA/Confluence/Zephyr

**Skills:**
Understanding of Agile development and practical use cases
Deep understanding of storage and cloud technologies and markets
Familiarity with media and entertainment workflows
Understanding of media management concepts including storage tiering
Understanding of cloud storage principles and concepts, including block and object storage
Must be able to articulate thoughts-in detail through written communications
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively with worldwide development team
Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems
 
**Minimum requirements:**
Bachelor’s (BA or BS) in business, computer science, or related field
At least 2+ years experience leading large design efforts and coordinating project teams of 4 or more members
This position requires travel to customer and non-customer sites worldwide (20%) and may have flexible work time requirements
Solid understanding of the product lifecycle
Solid understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework
Comfortable working with multiple teams with remote members
Ability to work with and build strong relationships with members of a cross functional teams, stakeholders and customers
Accurate and precise attention to detail
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Strong Technical aptitude
Team player, with great work ethics and quick learner
Comfortable driving teams and management to decisions; willing to push-back for information and answers
Able to adapt and be flexible in a dynamic environment
 
**Desired qualifications:**
Knowledge of workflows for TV, Film, Post Production a strong plus
Experience working as a Product Owner on a team that has delivered enterprise software products or SaaS cloud offering using an agile approach
Experience leading, collaborating and working with geographically distributed teams
Experience with agile enterprise software development processes and methodologies
Pragmatic Marketing or similar certification in product management or product ownership
Certification in Scaled Agile, preferably as a Product Owner
You’ve been responsible for ensuring the quality of experience and completeness in a product before it ships. And your products have shipped very frequently.
You have a serious passion for learning. Not just about new topics, but also about yourself: you welcome and elicit feedback on what you can do better.
 
**Preferences**
Media, Media & Entertainment, Storages, Azure, Cloud Systems

**Responsibilities**
The Product Owner position resides within the Product Management team and plays a critical role in the delivery. Product Owners are responsible for translating the product vision and roadmap into commercially successful products and features through collaboration with product managers, development teams, customers and other stakeholders.  This position requires proficiency in on prem storage, cloud storage, SaaS (software as a service).  Knowledge media workflows is a plus.

On a day-to-day basis, you will ensure that the storage engineering team has the information, context and details needed to deliver maximum user value by actively managing and prioritizing the product backlog, representing customer needs and answering technical questions.

The Product Owner must not only be proficient at creating prioritized feature lists and well-written user stories, but must also be technical enough to understand how to apply technology and innovation to addressing the quickly changing needs of the media industry.

**Responsibilities and duties:**
Work closely with Product Manager on creation and execution of product vision, strategy and roadmap.
Collaborate with cross-functional program team to develop and execute against product roadmaps and release plans.
Work closely with product manager and engineering teams to break roadmap down into EPICs and user stories.
Own, prioritize, and maintain product backlog including definition of features and acceptance criteria and hosting of regular grooming sessions.
Regularly interact with customers to understand general market trends down to specific user requirements with an ability to effectively develop and use personas.
Understand driving need behind customer requests, because you’ve learned that many times the initial “ask” from them is not the right solution for the true problem they’re facing.
Serve as “voice of the customer” reinforcing customer perspective throughout product development cycle..  
Be a spokesperson for product-team efforts in sprint reviews and technology demonstrations and be able to express the value of our efforts from the customer perspective.
Proactively manage expectations and education of all product stakeholders, including but not limited to customers, partners, and internal functions, such as production support, service and sales.