Product Owner

Company Description

McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions. During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we’ve built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV). We’re honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives. Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for 34 years and believe that people are the most important part of our company. We’re proud of our Great Place to Work certification.

**Job Description**:
**Top 5 Responsibilities**
- eCommerce requirements gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements for large-scale (e.g., Fortune 500 or equivalent) projects, introducing new and useful tools and practices
- Present solution alternatives to clients that meet their business requirements
- Lead requirements validation activities to confirm that a solution based on the requirements would meet customer needs and achieve business objectives
- Lead and coach other Product Owners and Business Analyst

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Review API’s and document integration requirements and contracts
- Successfully and independently handle ambiguous situations and develop a practical plan towards achieving clarity - while defining functional behavior, business rules, and data attributes
- Work in a globally distributed team model
- Work with the business stakeholders or sponsors to translate business needs into business and functional requirements
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process analysis, use cases or user stories, scenarios, event lists, competitive product analysis, and task and workflow analysis
- Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements or user stories
- Represent requirements using alternative views such as visual analysis models (UML diagrams), prototypes, or simulations where appropriate.
- Lead and facilitate ongoing requirements prioritization
- Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including continuous improvement. Assist with the development of the organization’s requirements engineering policies, procedures, and tools
- Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis. Propose new product features and updates
- Conduct research, analysis, and feasibility studies to establish the viability of requirements
- Travel to client sites as needed (post-pandemic)
- Bring best practices and support to the other eCommerce teams as they relate to business knowledge and business processes

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, MIS, Computer Science, or related major
- Technical background is desired
- Hands-on experience with analyzing API’s and Microservices architecture
- Proven experience in a business analyst role and delivering complex technical solutions
- Total experience of around 10+ years in business analyst role in a software services company
- Familiarity with a broad array of internet technologies and trends
- Experience in problem resolution with IT systems and individuals
- Strong facilitation and communication skills across business and technical audiences
- Experience with an enterprise class eCommerce platform
- Understanding of eCommerce internationalization and localization complexities: content in multiple languages, country-specific product availability, and tax & payment processing
- Familiarity with Agile development processes where you quickly write effective user stories that can be broken into meaningful tasks by developers
- Familiarity with Jira is desired
- Knowledge of multiple vertical industries such as retail, financial services, CPG, and healthcare is a plus
- Fluent English is required

Additional Information
**What we can offer you**
- A career with thought leaders who literally wrote the book on Marketplace Best Practices
- A career in the fast-paced world of retail eCommerce, digital marketplaces and platform businesses
- A career with first-movers who are deploying new business models and strategies worldwide
- A career in a flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy and bureaucracy
- A career in a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, risk-taking and teamwork

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**Our Core Values**: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptability, Caring

**Keywords**: Marketplace, Platform Business, eCommerce, Strategy, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Digital Transformation