Product Owner chez Poolcorp

Company Overview

POOLCORP is the leading business-to-business distributor of swimming pool and landscape supplies, equipment, and related outdoor living products.  Through our subsidiaries, SCP Distributors LLC, Superior Pool Products LLC, and Horizon Distributors Inc., we operate in more than 420 wholesale Sales Centers worldwide with more than 6,000 employees serving the needs of customers by offering a wide array of products and value-added support.

Our Covington, LA headquarters provides exceptional support (i.e., IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Purchasing, Sourcing, etc.) to each of our Sales Centers.  Our extraordinary company culture encompasses a high work ethic, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a community presence all within a family-oriented work atmosphere.  At POOLCORP, we strive to employ only the very best. 

Why POOLCORP? 

Because it’s a place where you can make an impact and grow!  At POOLCORP you’ll find a wealth of opportunities that support your individual and long-term career goals.  Our stable work environment is further enhanced by our generous compensation and benefits package.  Publicly traded since 1995, POOLCORP is a global organization with a long history of continuous success - clearly making it an industry leader – in so many ways!

So, end your job search here – at POOLCORP – Where Outdoor Living Comes to Life!

Job Summary 

As a POOLCORP Software Owner, you will become the product expert for your product.  work collaboratively with the Product Manager to understand the customer’s need and work to fulfill them.  You will play a role that is at the core of our Agile process by getting deep into customer requirements, prioritizing the features as per their importance.  You will own the team’s backlog, define user stories, and help shape the vision and product roadmap. 

Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Represent the customer/business to the feature team.

• Work with Product Manager to feed the funnel and manage customer feedback.

• Lead and support the sizing/effort calculations for a feature and align capacity to velocity required for the team.

• Prepare and participate in Program Increment Planning.

• Maintain the team’s product backlog prioritizing the tasks that the team will take up next.

• Develop and track Features and User stories.

• Define the user stories and work with the team to make sure they are clear.

• Application of Behavioral Driven Development (Testing).

• Acceptance of the stories.

• Lead team demos and retrospectives.

• Maintain the technical and conceptual integrity of the features or components for the team.

Requirements:

The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required to perform this job successfully.

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Business Administration, or related field.

• At least 3 years’ experience in product management.

• At least 3 years of experience working in an environment using DevOps, preferably Azure DevOps

• Possess a working knowledge of software technology, computer programming experience, and broad business knowledge.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical material using non-technical language

• Ability to prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Be capable of researching solutions to help solve difficult problems

POOLCORP is a drug-free company and Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. The Company understands, respects, and values diversity – unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while striving to be inclusive of all people. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Hiring and promotional decisions are based solely on the qualifications required for the job to be filled.