SoftPro is looking to provide an opportunity for a high-performing current employee to transition into a Product Owner role within the Real Estate Title and Escrow domain, leveraging their institutional knowledge and providing them with the necessary training and guidance to develop product ownership skills.
Requirements
- Willingness to learn technical concepts including SQL and RESTful APIs, with training provided. Experience is a plus.
- A basic understanding of Agile methodologies.
- Consistently demonstrate a thorough understanding of customer requirements and offer suggestions to improve user experience through existing process and design.
- Strong aptitude to understand new and complex business requirements and translate those requirements alongside customer needs to a technical audience including development and QA team members.
- Make certain that non-functional technical requirements, such as performance and stability, are at the forefront of the delivery roadmap, are clear and measurable, and are part of the Acceptance Criteria for your stories.
- Build and keep a backlog depth of stories that follow the organizational DOR with a minimum of 2 sprints of work ahead of planning timelines.
Responsibilities
- Develop requirements into stories and prioritize the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of product/project priorities, focusing on Custom Development initiatives.
- Ensure the right feature for the product is built based off your understanding of the customer’s needs/wants and balancing that against organization standards and structured guidelines.
- Make certain that non-functional technical requirements, such as performance and stability, are at the forefront of the delivery roadmap, are clear and measurable, and are part of the Acceptance Criteria for your stories.
- Identify, maintain, improve and prioritize product backlog items.
- Build and keep a backlog depth of stories that follow the organizational DOR with a minimum of 2 sprints of work ahead of planning timelines.
- Coordinate with Product Manager and other key stakeholders to maintain a long-term product area plan.
- Work within our Custom Development team building custom integrations focusing not only on the business requirements, but also the technical and tactical goals aligned with security, architecture and our overall strategic objectives.
Other
- Must be able to work East Coast hours, an occasionally be able to attend in-person meetings in Raleigh, NC when needed.
- 2+ years’ experience and proficiency with SoftPro Select is required.
- Real Estate Title and Escrow industry knowledge
- Proficiency in creating project plans and achieving milestones.
- Ideal candidate will have experience coordinating cross-functional teams, setting timelines, and tracking progress using digital tools to keep organized.
