About Us:
Rootstock Software® is disrupting the ERP space! We are a worldwide provider of cloud ERP on the Salesforce Cloud Platform. When combined with Salesforce CRM, Rootstock Cloud ERP offers manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain organizations a single platform to grow and manage their businesses. Rootstock Cloud ERP is a flexible, modern, and digitally connected system that transforms companies to deliver a more personalized customer experience, efficiently scale operations, and out-service the competition.
Rootstock Software® serves customers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and is available exclusively on the Salesforce Platform (Force.com) via the Salesforce AppExchange, the world’s most-popular marketplace for business apps. Organizations now have insight on what is happening or what will happen at each step of the manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain processes.
This is a remote position, based in the United States.
Summary:
The Lead Product Owner manages a world-class Product Owner team in the Products & Technology organization. With a deep understanding of building enterprise software on the cloud, the Lead Product Owner will ensure that product teams have the structure and methodology to deliver high-quality products. He or She will work collaboratively with various stakeholders to be the “voice of the product” and work with customers / customer-facing teams at Rootstock to become the “voice of customers” to the product teams.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of Product Owners that is dedicated to building the best-in-class Cloud ERP product
- Builds a strong Product Owner team that is efficient at defining detailed functional and non-functional product requirements in epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria
- Provides a focus on persona-based development by creating mockups, prototypes and process flow diagrams
- Oversees User Experience (Ux) with a focus on accessibility and overall usability
- Works collaboratively in a SCRUM team that includes Architecture, Development, QA, Doc to deliver high-quality deliverables in a Product Owner capacity.
- Prioritizes product backlog and Sprint backlog to secure delivery of maximum business value
- Works to manage dependencies and sets priorities across multiple teams to maintain alignment to product release and roadmap
- Ensure proper handover of specifications to developers to ensure clarity of understanding.
- Works closely with developers to review completed deliverables before handover to QA
- Determines relative business value of the backlog items and evaluates the need to address technical debt
- Analyzes data multi-application utilization to determine feature usage by customers
- Deliver training for new features to stakeholders, internal teams, partners, and customers.
- Understand market requirements and competitive offerings.
- Represent Rootstock at conferences and other customer events.
- Collaborate with the Product Strategy team to understand the market requirements.
- Collaborate with marketing on product updates and other customer-/market-facing activities such as webinars, press releases, and newsletters.
- Utilize Salesforce Platform capabilities such as reports, dashboards, workflows, etc. to analyze CRM data
- Create product documentation for new features per guidelines and process.
- Participate in Rootstock Community discussions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required.
- 5+ years of experience working in a cloud-based enterprise software company
- Experience in leading a product owner/business analyst team
- Strong understanding of business processes for the manufacturing and distribution industries.
- Strong understanding of enterprise or SaaS software and CI/CD process for rapid delivery and iteration
- Experience using Jira or similar tools preferred
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to present to a diverse audience.
- Strong MS PowerPoint skills for producing visually appealing content
- Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time.
We offer our team members competitive compensation, world class benefits, work life balance (flexible schedules, telecommuting, vacation time off), and the opportunity to work alongside an amazing and supportive team!
Rootstock values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
