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Product Owner (Hardware) - Position Filled
Forever Oceans
San Diego, CA, USA
5+ years experience
Posted: 24-06-2022

Company: Forever Oceans
Skills: 5+ years experience in a product owner or equivalent role, with a specific emphasis on hardware development.
Experience: 5+ years
Education: Bachelors Degree in Mechanical, Robotic, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
Employment type: Full time
Location: San Diego, CA, USA

Forever Oceans is looking for a Product Owner with experience managing robotic and hardware products through a well-defined product development lifecycle. As a Product Owner, you will serve as the primary contact with end-users and translate business requirements into well-defined user stories. You will be responsible for developing and refining user stories, acceptance criteria definition, backlog prioritization, and performing user acceptance testing. The candidate will work side-by-side with key stakeholders to identify opportunities and ideate, elicit features, document requirements, analyze and evaluate potential solutions, document process flows, and support strategy development. Successful candidates will be customer focused with the ability to clearly define and communicate business needs while developing strong relationships with end-users from different cultures around the globe.

Authorized Jobs in the next location(s): USA
Company details

Forever Oceans is reshaping the world of seafood with its sustainable, tech-forward approach and is positioned to become the preeminent sustainable seafood company. Forever Oceans is unique for its combination of biology, aquaculture, and technology in harmony to grow its sushi-grade fish in the most efficient and sustainable way. The proprietary system incorporates robotics to nurture and monitor the fish through remote communication and artificial intelligence for greater efficiencies to reduce operational and environmental risks. With the backing of premium investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Forever Oceans is revolutionizing the world of seafood, forever.
Requirements & Summary

Forever Oceans is looking for a Product Owner with experience managing robotic and hardware products through a well-defined product development lifecycle. As a Product Owner, you will serve as the primary contact with end-users and translate business requirements into well-defined user stories. You will be responsible for developing and refining user stories, acceptance criteria definition, backlog prioritization, and performing user acceptance testing. The candidate will work side-by-side with key stakeholders to identify opportunities and ideate, elicit features, document requirements, analyze and evaluate potential solutions, document process flows, and support strategy development. Successful candidates will be customer focused with the ability to clearly define and communicate business needs while developing strong relationships with end-users from different cultures around the globe.

Responsibilities:

Mange the full end-to-end product development lifecycle for the next generation of robotic applications and hardware solutions for open-ocean aquaculture.

Interact with end-users, stakeholders, and business leaders to gather, prioritize, and document requirements in Confluence/Jira.

Conduct user interviews, prepare designs, and translate the user requirements into valuable business outcomes.

Write JIRA stories with clear user story, acceptance criteria and definition of ready.

Develop and define the product backlog and constantly prioritize based on customer feedback, market changes and business priorities.

Coordinate UAT sessions and sign off with users. Validate the 'acceptance criteria' & results in UAT, raising critical bugs as a matter of urgency.

Set and communicate clear vision and release plan for the product(s) to the team.

Form an active, collaborative partnership with stakeholders, end-users, and development teams.

Collaborate with C-Level executives and Senior Product and Engineering leadership in strategic planning activities.


Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Mechanical, Robotic, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

5+ years experience in a product owner or equivalent role, with a specific emphasis on hardware development.

2+ years working with Agile / Scrum using Jira and Confluence.

Experience with user acceptance testing (UAT).

Ability to advocate for partners and ensure efficiencies of implementation across departments.

A clear ability to manage a range of different personality types in a facilitative and mature manner.

Positive relationship building skills including the ability to relate constructively to all levels of the organization.

Ability to set and balance priorities efficiently.

Ability to work with remote/international teams; Spanish language skills are a plus!









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