Technical Product Owner / Software Development Expert

** This is an opportunity to join our top-notch software development team working closely together on interesting projects for our clients. This position is fully remote (indefinitely).**

Emergent Software is looking for a technical product owner / software development expert who is a smart, passionate, and enjoys problem solving using technology and software. A qualified candidate is a product owner with 5+ years of experience gathering requirements and managing the delivery of custom web application development projects in the Microsoft stack. This 100% remote position is for self-starters with good communication skills, strong technology knowledge, and experience with agile methodologies.

Highlights & Benefits of working at Emergent Software

• Work closely with other talented software engineers and analysts. Our vetting process means you can count on your team members to know what they are talking about.

• Work from home or work remotely from anywhere you want

• Flexible work schedule meaning you can work regular hours or whenever you work best

• Work-life balance is essential and highly valued at Emergent Software. If you choose to work more than 40 hours, you’ll be compensated for the extra work!

• Work on interesting projects solving complex business problems with custom software.

• 100 hours per year to focus on your professional development. We invest in your growth!

• Profit sharing bonus means as we’re successful, you’re successful

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, FSA, disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave

Primary Duties

• Partner with clients to establish product vision and backlog

  • Partner with clients to assist them in performing the Product Owner role

  • In depth requirements gathering and analysis

  • Document requirements as Features and User Stories to share with team

  • Work with your team and client to create a plan for delivering on project objectives and achieving business value

• Partner with technology teams to establish client technology roadmap

  • Collaborate heavily with technology experts (architects and engineers) to vet requirements for technical feasibility

  • Speak with intelligence on technology topics to clients to establish trust and confidence

• Partner with delivery team to execute on established plans

  • Communicate technical and business requirements to delivery team

  • Collaborate with senior delivery team members to solve complex challenges

  • Demonstrate strong understanding of custom software development concepts and best practices in all interactions

  • Ensure projects stay on target by regularly communicating status, risks, and change as they occur

• Be a champion of the agile software development process

  • Work directly with clients to manage project delivery while encouraging and fostering an agile delivery method

  • Apply agile concepts in real world settings, adapting principles to client’s level of agile sophistication and working to improve maturity over time

  • Own backlog health and communicate deviation to expected value delivery proactively

  • Act as a servant leader to your delivery team

Required Qualifications

• Product Ownership experience

  • 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner on complex custom software development projects

  • Strong technical writing, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must

  • Experience operating as the liaison between agile development teams and users in defining requirements, performing business analysis, and driving delivery in the right direction

• Technology knowledge

  • A solid understanding of how websites, web applications, APIs, databases, and the cloud function at a high level

  • Strong technical background enabling you to provide credible leadership to development teams and accurately evaluate complex project risks and issues

• Experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach

  • Solid understanding of software development life cycle models including expert knowledge of Agile principles

  • Experience with agile work organization tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Rally)

  • A proven track record of successfully implementing custom web application projects using Agile methodologies

• Experience with Traditional Project Management concepts

  • Experience with scope, schedule, budget, and risk management

  • Must be viewed as a trusted source of truth by stakeholders through consistent, transparent, and confident communication.

  • Owns the narrative around project delivery, ensuring stakeholders are informed, aligned, and reassured throughout the lifecycle.

• Occasional travel to client sites may be requested for activities such as annual planning meetings. Although travel is not expected to be frequent, the ability to accommodate occasional travel is required.

Nice to Have Experience

• Strong preference towards candidates with experience delivering projects to client expectations, especially in a consulting or software as a service environment

• Industry recognized Agile process certification (PMI-ACP, Scrum Alliance CSM or CSPO, Scrum.org PAL, SAFe, or equivalent)

• Industry recognized Project management certification (PMP or equivalent)

• Microsoft Azure technology certifications (AZ-900, DP-900, AI-900)

• Experience on projects utilizing Microsoft stack technologies such as .NET, SQL Server, and Azure as well as JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue.js

• Some examples of profiles/backgrounds that we feel would do well in this role:

  • Scrum master turned product owner

  • Independent consultant with previous experience on agile delivery teams (any role)

  • Someone who is a product owner with a passion for the technical side of software development

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Software, we work hard to find the best analysts capable of delivering high quality software for our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch people. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

1. Application (5 minutes)

2. Online Assessment (40-50 minutes)

3. Initial Phone Interview & Technology Knowledge Assessment (45 minutes)

4. Challenge Interview (90 minutes)

5. Final Interview (60-90 minutes)

6. Job Offer!

Benefits Package Details

• Medical Insurance: up to 80% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)

• HSA Contribution: up to $144/month

• Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs

• 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary

• Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly

• Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week

• Employee referral & customer referral bonuses

• Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs

• Dependent Care FSA Contribution: $90/month

• Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks

• Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month

• Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k

• PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays

• Paid parental leave: 2 weeks

• Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs

About Emergent Software

Emergent Software is a fast-growing software development, cloud consulting, and data engineering company serving clients across the country. We are regularly adding to our team of talented software engineers, cloud architects, data engineers, UX designers, technical product owners and more who can help us deliver high quality services for our clients.

We are a remote-first company
Since our inception, we've embraced a remote-friendly culture, promoting work flexibility beyond the norm. When the pandemic struck in 2020, our transition to fully remote work was seamless—just a matter of cleaning out the fridge. Recognizing an opportunity, we adopted a remote-first approach and began hiring talent from anywhere. We continue to offer our signature Minnesota-nice, Midwest-friendly attitude, ensuring everyone feels valued, whether or not they're familiar with the skyway system.

Your career grows with us
Working with talented engineers on interesting projects creates an engaging environment for software development enthusiasts. By working directly with our experienced team, participating in our staff development program, and solving complex problems across a variety of projects, you’ll find numerous opportunities for long-term career growth.

At Emergent Software, your ideas will be heard, you will grow exponentially as a master of your craft, and you will enjoy working other dedicated team members to deliver software solutions for our clients.

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In this role, you’ll guide agile software projects by aligning client vision with technical delivery and translating requirements into business value. You’ll lead cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution.