Product Owner

Embark on a transformative journey as a Technical Product Owner at Duke Energy, where your expertise will fuel pioneering advancements in energy technology. Join our dynamic team to drive innovation, shape the future of sustainable energy solutions, and play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the technical landscape of the power industry.

If you have any questions, please reach out to michaelbenson@kcillc.com, or apply directly on our website! No C2C. W2 Only.

Core Responsibilities
• Defines and manages product roadmap
• Builds, grooms and prioritizes the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team
• Manages the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)
• Develops a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs
• Understands business processes and procedures
• Gathers market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development
• Writes detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features
• Partners with Tech Lead and Solution Architect to confirm the overall architecture and technical solution aligns with business objectives and required features
• Collaborates with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems
• Represents the product to business stakeholders and maintains effective stakeholder relationships
• Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders
• Collaborates with Sponsors on approvals of deliverables
• Participates in staffing activities with the Delivery Manager to identify resource gaps, interviewing, and maintain resource allocation documents.

Desired Qualifications
• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action.
• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team
• Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate
• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships
• Understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases
• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs
• Experience of working in utility industry
• Understanding of Load Forecasting
• Experience as a Product Owner
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with teams developing and shipping software