Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner Location: Pleasanton, CA- Remote Duration: Long Term Contract Job Description: Peoplesoft Financial functional knowledgeable Product Owner with knowledge in Sourcing and Procurement and Supplier management. Should be local to Pleasanton, CA or surrounding areas only as the associate must attend in-person meeting at least 1 day in a week. The Position is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line. This role spans many types of activities, from strategic to tactical. The position provides cross-functional leadership and bridges organizational gaps between different functional groups, most often between project, product, shared services testing and release management, and SaaS vendors. What you'll do: ¿ Communicate product vision, roadmap and progress internal cross-functional stakeholders. ¿ Serve as the voice of the customer and the business and possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end experience. ¿ Lead planning of product releases and set expectations for delivery of new features. ¿ Prioritize product features and requirements backlogs compromising both the business needs and technical readiness. ¿ Define and lead continuous improvement of features and/or products ¿ Lead and obtain strategic buy-in from internal and external stakeholders ¿ Communicate key messages and engage with many diverse functional stakeholders through the product lifecycle ¿ Create product strategy and business requirement for new features or products ¿ Actively seek customer and market input and data as a source of product innovation ¿ Act as the SME during initial roll-out and provide support when needed ¿ Ability to participate in technical discussions and help make design trade-offs. ¿ Identify both business and technical impediments and drive for product development. ¿ Guide technology platform owner in managing agile user stories with clear acceptance criteria for the development team s execution. ¿ Work closely with functional business callers/owners to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value and priority. ¿ Support functional opportunities or initiatives and dive as MVPs (Min. viable product) for a unified coherent technology and customer experience. ¿ Liaise and negotiate with IT SaaS vendors on all product-related issues. These are Business and IT Executive facing roles working directly with the product and services departments. Excellent verbal and written communication with proven ability to prepare executive level presentations is a minimum requirement. Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.