Product Owner

**Build your future with Sovos.** If you're seeking a career where innovation meets impact, you've come to the right place. As a global leader, Sovos is transforming tax compliance from a business requirement to a force for growth while revolutionizing how businesses navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape. At Sovos, we're dedicated to more than just solving compliance challenges - we're committed to making a positive and lasting difference in everything we do. Our teams operate on the modern edge of digital technology, working not only to solve complex business challenges but also to enrich our personal, professional, and local communities. Our purpose-built systems provide the tools you need to thrive in a world where governments demand increased visibility, faster reporting and greater control over business processes. Excited about the possibilities? So are we **The Work You'll Do**: Self-service e-Commerce solutions - specifically those intended for small businesses (SMBs) - require a high-degree of iteration and design-first thinking to be successful. Teams responsible for delivering these solutions are highly collaborative, autonomous, and cross-functional. A Product Owner (PO) is responsible for shaping the product backlog, prioritizing tasks, and creating a shared understanding of the product vision within the team. The PO is the “heartbeat” of the team, setting the short-term direction while providing clarity, focus and alignment. The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring the continued evolution of the product. The PO actively gathers product requirements and ensures that that team is always doing “the right thing” (as opposed to doing “the thing right,” which is the development team’s responsibility). The PO is closely connected with the development team, but is actively engaged with product leadership, product/UX design, marketing, support, and other roles. The PO owns the product backlog and prioritizes it to align with product strategy, business goals, and achieve project goals and objectives. You’ll work closely with product leadership to understand the roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements into user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved to create the best solution. As a Product Owner, you will also prioritize the development backlog and work with product leadership to plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features and user stories are delivered, you’ll work closely with QA to ensure problems are solved and requirements are met. - More specifically you will:_ - Translate business problems and requirements into user stories for development teams to implement. - Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams to document user stories to appropriate level of detail. - Translate project goals/objectives/strategy to actionable work, prioritizing and sequencing the development work to achieve project goals and timelines. - Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met. - Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA. - Work alongside product leadership and marketing to conduct research which can be used to clarify requirements and ensure the solution will deliver value to end users. - Clarify and refine user stories to an appropriate level of detail where needed. - Collaborate with product management, development, and UX design to successfully document, scope and prioritize development. - Partner with product manager to help define product vision and roadmap. - Understand the product strategy as defined by product management. - Coordinate the creation of product mockups and prototypes. - Fulfill the "product owner role" which is responsible for prioritizing and maintaining a backlog. - Communicate with stakeholders during the development of a product to keep them updated. - Collect, coordinate, and prioritize bug fixes and testing efforts **What We Ask From You**: - You have 3+ years in relevant field. - You have a complete understanding of the "Product Owner" role - You have experience in B2B SaaS business analysis or product development - You’re able to balance gut feel judgement and logical analysis - You’re willing to make and commit to decisions - You’re able to define priorities and lead teams through influence - You demonstrate Sovos' Leadership Competencies - You have a hunger for learning, and a passion for building great products **What Does Sovos Offer You?** The tools to enhance your life - because we want you to enjoy your life outside of work and inside - Bi-Weekly Meeting Free Days - Mentoring Programs - Globally recognized Training and Development programs Company sponsored health, dental and vison insurance - Sovos is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment that celebrates diversity and where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. We do not d