Technical Product Owner

  • Full-time

Company Description

Who is Litmus 

Litmus is a growth-stage software company that is transforming the way companies harness the power of machine data to improve operations. Our software is enabling the next wave of digital transformation for the biggest and most innovative companies in the World – making Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0 and Edge Computing a reality. We just completed our Series B financing round, and we are looking to expand our global marketing team.  

Why join the Litmus team 

You want to be a part of something great 

We pride ourselves on building the most talented and experienced team in the industry who knows how to win. We work hard and the results speak for themselves. We’re trusted by industry leaders like Google, Dell, Intel, Mitsubishi, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and others as we partner to help Fortune 500 companies digitally transform. 

You want to define and shape the future

At Litmus you’ll have the opportunity to influence and enable Industrial Internet of Things, the next wave of technology essential for global digitization. We’re leading the industry in machine data analytics and edge computing to feed machine learning, artificial intelligence and other applications that rapidly change the way companies operate. 

You want to build and shape your career 

Join a growth-stage Silicon Valley company to build and define your career path in an environment that allows you to progress rapidly. Bring your unique experience, talent and expertise and add to it by collaborating with and learning from the brightest people in the industry.  

We are committed to hiring great people who are passionate about what they do and thrive on winning as a team. We welcome anyone and everyone who wishes to join the Litmus marketing team to apply and share their career experience, dreams and goals with us. 

Job Description

What you will do 

  • Lead multiple cross-functional programs, in collaboration with technical teams (including product management, engineering, UI/UX, QA, DevOps, etc), that focus on building Litmus Edge and Litmus Edge Manager products 

  • Work closely with the Product Managers and leadership to ensure accurate assessment, prioritization, visibility of near and long-term product programs. 

  • Draft detailed specifications for every new feature or existing features 

  • Work with UX for designing mock-ups 

  • Proactively engage with Developers, Engineering Leads, and be the primary point of contact for development cycles. 

  • Manage and facilitate team meetings (developers or product management) and initiatives to effectively develop plans and achieve goals. 

  • Prepare the product component sprint / Pods schedules, define the milestones 

  • Track and report progress against plan, identify and mitigate risks, remove blockers 

  • Embrace principles of Agile development and lead highly efficient teams 

  • Ensure products/features released to market smoothly 

Qualifications

What we are looking for:  

  • You have a deep understanding of project lifecycle, product lifecycle, software development lifecycle 

  • You are highly skilled, experienced, and enjoy orchestrating software product development programs with many moving parts - people, needs, and technologies 

  • You like to plan, document, and manage a large Product program consisting of multiple complex components (mainly product components).  

  • You can collaborate with your Product and Engineering partners to produce high-fidelity release schedules. 

  • You like to manage Agile sprint cycles to ensure committed business goals are achieved on time. 

  • You can identify gaps in solutions, debate technical approaches, and weigh in on scalable/repeatable methods 

  • You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty, pulling data to provide insight, debug issues, and monitor system health 

  • You have a deep understanding and point of view within your technical domain(s) of expertise 

Basic Qualifications 

  • 5+ years of experience in a project and program management capacity driving large-scale software product projects with engineering and product teams. 

  • 3+ years of experience with Agile project management and process improvement methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) 

  • Experience in project and portfolio management tools such as Atlassian Jira, and Confluence 

  • Experience managing projects across cross-functional remote teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules 

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.