Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
Product Owner
Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246
Practice Group / Department:
IT Application Portfolio Management
Job Description
We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.
Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Product Owner to manage the product lifecycle for assigned products. This includes managing the vision and roadmap for products and services based on input from stakeholders, customers, market research and industry insight.
This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate activities have been carried out for new applications. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent communication, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.
This position is ideally located in Houston, Texas, but can be based in any of our US offices. We offer a hybrid schedule which is primarily remote with in-office meetings as needed each month. The position reports into the Application Portfolio Manager.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited toDeveloping and maintaining advanced functional knowledge of business process related to assigned applications and use of systems integrated assigned applications.
Defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, release plan, and ongoing prioritization assigned applications; including defining the minimum viable product for releases
Lead and managing the product lifecycle from concept to decommissioning; including managing the product and release backlog
Understanding and Defining customer problems, use cases, value propositions
Validation of customer pain points and requirements
Partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases to gain approval for product or service investment
Partnering with Enterprise Architecture in vendor selection and management to ensure alignment to product delivery strategy
Coordinating with UX to ensure design meets functional needs
Ensuring traceability of requirements from stakeholders to product release
Partnering with the Change Management and Training teams to develop and implement a successful change management and training program
Soliciting user feedback for product and delivery improvement
Collaborating with peers to determine resource needs on projects and sustaining teams.
Conducting and participating as needed in reviews for requirements, application design testing strategy, and change control activities
Communicating status and change requests to stakeholders
Point of Contact within the Application Services team to share overall customer needs, vision, and direction. Agile execution through management of the product backlog, epics, user stories, iteration plans and feature acceptance.
Coordinating with stakeholders to develop acceptance criteria, sample data, and User Acceptance Testing.
Providing inputs into end-user training, materials, and support
Prioritizing features for releases based upon agreed Critical Success Factors - including features and bug fixes
Making tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule within agreed constraints
Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously improve and enhance products.
Other duties
Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information science, or Business -related field preferred
Minimum three years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner
Proficient in using Product, and Requirements management tools like Azure DevOps
Proficient with Excel and other core Microsoft applications
Requires knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and must be able to execute within both Agile and Waterfall deliveries of the SDLC
Proficiency in analyzing software applications and assessing individual features and modules to determine fit for business purpose
Preferred experience in the legal industry
Preferred experience with HR solutions
Preferred certifications: Product Owner Professional (PO)
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact us.hr@nortonrosefulbright.com. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices to achieve a lawful workforce.
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IT Application Portfolio Management
Job Description
We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.
Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Product Owner to manage the product lifecycle for assigned products. This includes managing the vision and roadmap for products and services based on input from stakeholders, customers, market research and industry insight.
This role works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgment to ensure the appropriate activities have been carried out for new applications. The successful candidate will demonstrate proficiency with a highly collaborative approach, exhibiting excellent communication, problem solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.
This position is ideally located in Houston, Texas, but can be based in any of our US offices. We offer a hybrid schedule which is primarily remote with in-office meetings as needed each month. The position reports into the Application Portfolio Manager.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited toDeveloping and maintaining advanced functional knowledge of business process related to assigned applications and use of systems integrated assigned applications.
Defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, release plan, and ongoing prioritization assigned applications; including defining the minimum viable product for releases
Lead and managing the product lifecycle from concept to decommissioning; including managing the product and release backlog
Understanding and Defining customer problems, use cases, value propositions
Validation of customer pain points and requirements
Partnering with stakeholders to develop business cases to gain approval for product or service investment
Partnering with Enterprise Architecture in vendor selection and management to ensure alignment to product delivery strategy
Coordinating with UX to ensure design meets functional needs
Ensuring traceability of requirements from stakeholders to product release
Partnering with the Change Management and Training teams to develop and implement a successful change management and training program
Soliciting user feedback for product and delivery improvement
Collaborating with peers to determine resource needs on projects and sustaining teams.
Conducting and participating as needed in reviews for requirements, application design testing strategy, and change control activities
Communicating status and change requests to stakeholders
Point of Contact within the Application Services team to share overall customer needs, vision, and direction. Agile execution through management of the product backlog, epics, user stories, iteration plans and feature acceptance.
Coordinating with stakeholders to develop acceptance criteria, sample data, and User Acceptance Testing.
Providing inputs into end-user training, materials, and support
Prioritizing features for releases based upon agreed Critical Success Factors - including features and bug fixes
Making tradeoff decisions between scope and schedule within agreed constraints
Gather and analyze user feedback to continuously improve and enhance products.
Other duties
Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information science, or Business -related field preferred
Minimum three years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner
Proficient in using Product, and Requirements management tools like Azure DevOps
Proficient with Excel and other core Microsoft applications
Requires knowledge of the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and must be able to execute within both Agile and Waterfall deliveries of the SDLC
Proficiency in analyzing software applications and assessing individual features and modules to determine fit for business purpose
Preferred experience in the legal industry
Preferred experience with HR solutions
Preferred certifications: Product Owner Professional (PO)
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact us.hr@nortonrosefulbright.com. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This business uses E-Verify in its hiring practices to achieve a lawful workforce.
Equal Employment Opportunity | EEO is the Law - Supplement | Pay Transparency