Product Owner

HireRight is the premier global background screening and workforce solutions provider. We bring clarity and confidence to vetting and hiring decisions through integrated, tailored solutions, driving a higher standard of accuracy in everything we do. Combining in-house talent, personalized services, and proprietary technology, we ensure the best candidate experience possible. PBSA accredited and based in Nashville, Tennessee, we offer expertise from our regional centers across 200 countries and territories in The Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Our commitment to get it right every time, everywhere, makes us the trusted partner of businesses and organizations worldwide.

The Product Owner plays a key role in driving solutions for our products and applications   for external and internal users to ensure we maintain our market leading position. These solutions delight our customers and make our fulfilment teams more effective.  

• Identifies, develops, and drives product and application initiatives for their area 
• Manages, prioritize, and owns the user story backlog for his or her agile team  
• Contributes to all agile ceremonies including feature refinement, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release planning with the agile team 
• Ensures internal customer validation of solutions by working with Product Management and key End Users. 
• Coordinates trade-off and dependency analysis for team’s backlogs based on Product Management or Business priorities. 
• Translate market requirements from Product Management into detail technical user stories ready for development 
• Work closely with Product Managers and delivery managers to develop and launch new products and enhancements. 
• Build trust with technical partners by demonstrating solid understanding of technologies, APIs, database, middleware, and other technology constructs and be able to drive solutioning and technical conversations.  
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• Create and modify documentation to be used by HireRight and its partners and customers. 
• Participate in technical conversations and can clearly articulate technical details of our APIs, products and applications to our customers and vendor partners.  
• Write and help coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans and test cases and/or execute test cases as needed. Develop PL/SQL queries for functional and integration testing to validate and verify product performance and functionality. 

• Work with end users, architects, product managers and Software Engineering team members to propose innovative solutions and refine them. 
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• Create application mock-ups to be used in technical requirement documentation. 
• Communicate clearly and act as a liaison between the business end users, Product Managers and Software Development Teams. 
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of end user documents, training materials, and user demos. 
• May apply project management skills to develop work plans and manage and track progress, resources, timelines and issues for the on-time and on-budget delivery of small development tasks. 

• 5-10 years of experience in enterprise-level technical product/platform management role. 
• Experience in working with Product Management and developing Engineering ready detail user stories. 
• Exposure to agile methodology and prior experience working with agile teams and scrum ceremonies as a product owner.  
• Experience managing and interacting with third party technology providers and establishing processes for staying in coordination with new releases. 
• Experience developing mission-critical scalable enterprise software. 
• Facilitative leadership experience as well as experience working in matrix and agile environment. 
• Excellent interviewing, listening, observational, analytical, and organizational skills. 
• Excellent writing and communication skills. 
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with cross functional teams across the organization. 
• Preference of former technical role to include software engineering, business applications or quality assurance software testing. 
• Background checks industry exposure a plus 

Education: 

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required