RSM is looking to enhance its ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient Tax products and services to its clients through the Center for Advanced Tax Technology (CATT), and the CATT Product Owner role is key to driving long-term scalability and sustainability of the business for a competitive advantage.
Requirements
- Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (required)
- Secure Software Development Life Cycle (preferred)
- Experience with Agile development methodologies (required)
- Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner or equivalent experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a product owner or business analyst (required)
- Creative, out-of-the-box thinker and problem-solving experience to assess, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with Lead Product Owner(s) to translate their strategic roadmap into backlog items.
- Owns and prioritizes the technical and function requirements in the product backlog and maintains the product roadmap.
- Serves as a liaison between business and development; identifies what the business wants and works with the team to determine what's feasible to deliver (adherence to firm policies and standards).
- Addresses product team members' questions to ensure they deliver an acceptable, quality solution.
- Participates and champions all agile/scrum ceremonies (or adherence to Kanban principles); monitors sprint burndown charts to know when to ramp up/down the team to drive quality and velocity over time.
- May serve as a Career Advisor for FTEs or hiring manager for Contractors, which requires regular feedback, coaching, goal setting and training with assigned advisees/contractors.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree (preference given to Business or Technology or Accounting major)
- Results driven; high integrity; ability to influence, negotiate and build relationships; superior communications skills; make complex decisions and lead team through complex challenges (required)
- Prior public accounting experience with mid to large size firm(s) or other professional services experience (preferred)
- Ability to deliver value consistently by motivating teams towards achieving goals
- Strong ownership, bias to action, and know-how to succeed in ambiguity
