Hub Group offers comprehensive transportation and logistics management solutions. Keeping our customers' needs in focus, Hub Group designs, continually optimizes, and applies industry-leading technology to our customers' supply chains for better service, greater efficiency, and total visibility. As an award-winning, publicly traded company (Nasdaq: HUBG) with nearly $5 billion in revenue, our 6,000 employees across North America are always in pursuit of "The Way Ahead" - a commitment to service, integrity and innovation. For more information, visit hubgroup.com.
JOB SUMMARY:
This position is responsible for leading a cross-functional agile team to develop new features and capabilities for Hub Group's digital products. This role requires collaboration, creativity, flexibility, and smart planning to operate in an agile environment. You will own all aspects of the product from shaping the vision to supporting and managing it.
This tactical role will involve providing high-level vision, outcomes, themes, and features needed for the success of Hub Group's digital products. You will be the heartbeat of the high-performing team. You will work closely with the development team(s) to ensure they build the right functionality in a timely manner. You will transform high-level vision into detailed requirements (user stories) - often anticipating the needs of the business teams. You will work closely with the software development, security, identity, dev-ops, SOA, legacy, support teams from IT while taking inputs from the account management, operations, sales, accounting, and pricing teams from the business. In this role, you will progressively refine product features, requirements, and acceptance criteria into sprint-ready units. You will perform analysis, write testable specifications, schedule and run coordination meetings, arrange demos, and interact with our users on a regular basis.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of performing Product Ownership roles and responsibilities, a solid understanding of various agile management tactics and processes.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities
Work closely with the business to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared stories for a minimum of two sprints always
Accept or reject development work at the end of a sprint. Make a determination if an item was "done" and successfully delivered
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Lead the sprint planning, product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
Assess value, develop use cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
Answer questions from the development team to help clarify any details as they are developing the application
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
Coordinate communication with all areas of IT and business
Ensure all internal controls and policies have adhered and systems change management
Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
Team builder and inspire a strong team to always deliver their best, with passion and commitment, following best practices
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Previous working experience as a Product Manager/Owner for 3+ years
B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
5+ years of work experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban and supporting tools
7 years of experience in the IT industry as a programmer, technician, engineer, or project manager
Proven success in a leadership role with responsibility for delivery of software development projects within either technology services or software product company
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
Creative thinker with a vision
Attention to details
Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills
In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills