Codazen

Digital Producer / Product Owner

About Codazen

Want to apply technology in ways that make life more enriching?

We think the digital experiences that make up more and more of our everyday lives should be seamless and engaging—even magical. Using our unique recipe of specialized skills and digital alchemy, we engineer experiences that help businesses engage with users, and users engage with the world.

The source of our magic comes from our people. We continually strive to be better versions of ourselves—and have fun while doing it. If a career creating innovative experiences and digital products sounds exciting, we hope you’ll consider joining our amazing team.

Summary

Codazen is looking for a Digital Producer / Product Owner excited to take on challenges in a growing and fast-paced environment. The candidate should have deep technical understanding and experience of driving and owning software product development principles and processes.

The Digital Producer / Product Owner will serve as the ‘voice of the client’ throughout the end-to-end process of product development and ensuring that the software products and experiences delivered meet the client’s needs and goals. You are responsible to work with clients to define and clarify product strategy and goals, make strategy recommendations, and drive forward the team’s success to achieve those client’s defined goals.

This role is responsible in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure that the Scrum teams are working on stories and technical work that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality. Experience with Agile methodologies is a requirement, and the candidate must be detail oriented with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management. In particular, experience in creating effective, actionable user stories to drive software product development is preferred.

Requirements

• Gather and define scope and requirements with clients to achieve the software product goals, and relay those requirements to the rest of the teams.
• Drive forward product strategy and make recommendations to achieve the client’s immediate and long-term goals. Facilitate higher-level strategic initiatives.
• Identify and understand product risks along with triggers that impact severity. Work with clients to clarify requirements and mitigate these risks.
• Lead task prioritization and backlog grooming with cross-functional teams, communicate prioritization to creative, engineering, production teams effectively and accurately.
• Build and maintain strong client relationship through daily communication.

• Lead the production team in creating and maintaining detailed project plans, project briefs, and task requirements with defined parameters and input from team members as needed.
• Construct user stories with well-defined requirements and confirm requirements are satisfied upon development completion.
• Facilitate and support collaboration and effective workflow between project team members. Oversee process adoption and improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in information science, computer science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience as professional Product Owner, running multiple initiatives and managing various stakeholders simultaneously.
• Proven success managing the delivery and release of consumer-facing digital projects or enterprise software products.
• Experience managing creative and engineer teams in a client-facing environment is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of web application and general software development

• Strong knowledge of digital disciplines including: Strategy, Creative, Information Architecture, Business Analysis, Technology, QA, and Analytics.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC and Agile Methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communicator, with great interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Detail-oriented, take-ownership approach, self-organizing and highly skilled in time management to facilitate involvement in multiple projects.
• Collaborative attitude, stellar communication skills, and a results-driven mindset.

Plus

• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Experience with Jira, Asana

WHAT CODAZEN OFFERS

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.