Product Owner

Posted 4 Days Ago
Ann Arbor, MI
Hybrid
Mid level
Big Data • Cloud • Information Technology • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
The #1 AI-powered DEX platform.
The Role
As a Product Owner at Lakeside Software, you will bridge customer needs and product development, ensuring feature delivery aligns with customer expectations. Your role involves prioritizing the product roadmap, writing user stories, collaborating with engineers, and enhancing the product management process for optimal results.
Summary Generated by Built In

Lakeside Software is ushering in a new era of proactive IT with SysTrack, the industry's most powerful AI-driven Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies worldwide, Lakeside SysTrack dramatically reduces IT costs, prevents system failures before they occur, and drives strategic decision-making through unparalleled visibilityLakeside’s excellence is recognized by industry experts, earning us the title of AI Company of the Year by CIOReview, and leader status in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools and The Forrester Wave™: End-User Experience Management. Join us in transforming IT operations and delivering exceptional digital experiences to companies globally.

The Role

As a Product Owner at Lakeside, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the vision and execution of our product roadmap. You will act as the bridge between our customers' needs and our product development efforts, ensuring that every feature delivers maximum value. Your strategic mindset and ability to prioritize will be crucial in driving projects forward efficiently.

You will be a key part in ensuring that features are delivered on time and meet the needs of our customers. You will collaborate with others in the product team and with teams across the company, including engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and support. Your natural curiosity will drive you to learn about our customers' complex technical problems, and you will use your abilities to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and collaborate to find optimal solutions.

What You'll Do

The core functions of this role include:

  • Developing a deep understanding of the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) space and the challenges our customers face.
  • Partnering with product managers to understand the value and associated outcomes of new features.
  • Working with product designers to whiteboard, develop, and refine clear & intuitive user experiences.
  • Writing user stories for epics and maintain a prioritized backlog.
  • Discussing proposals with engineers to identify the most efficient way to implement a feature, considering various trade-offs including development effort and infrastructure costs.
  • Working closely with engineers during implementation and help to ensure the changes function correctly and meet the specifications.
  • Collaborating with other Product Owners to manage and complete cross-team dependencies.
  • Ensuring features stay on track and are delivered within expected time frames.
  • Working closely with User Assistance team members to create documentation that leads to successful adoption and use of features.
  • Helping shape and contribute to the product management process to help constantly improve it.

What You'll Bring to Lakeside

The key requirements for this role include:

  • 3+ years of experience building and delivering successful products.
  • 3+ years Software Engineering experience.
  • 3- 5 years of experience in the end-user-compute (EUC), IT Support, DEM or DEX space.
  • Track record of generating outstanding results at a fast-moving team and company.
  • An interest in software development processes and practices, including developer tools.
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to build and maintain relationships with a wide range of people.
  • Proven attention to detail.
  • Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks effectively.
  • Quick to learn new skills and keen to solve problems.

Additional Details

  • Location: Hybrid role; in-office requirement is based on your proximity to the Ann Arbor office
  • Timezone: Strong preference to remote candidates that can work East Coast hours.
  • Travel (if applicable): 10%

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Lakeside Software is committed to pursuing a diverse and talented team and offering an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates. As we expand our DE&I reach, we are particularly interested in receiving candidate applications from a broad spectrum of individuals, including women, historically marginalized groups, individuals with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, and any other legally protected group. Lakeside is dedicated to providing equal access and opportunity, as well as reasonable accommodation, for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, activities, and programs. Lakeside is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not make hiring or employment decisions on any basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy.  If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform required job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact accomodations@lakesidesoftware.com.

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
223 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Lakeside Software is how organizations with large, complex IT environments can finally get visibility across their entire digital estate and see how to do more with less. For far too long, IT teams have struggled to see what’s going on in their dark estate – where costly inefficiencies, poor employee experiences, and unresolved problems hide. Only Lakeside lets you give everyone a better view, so they can see the hidden issues, see the smartest fixes, and see the biggest savings. That’s why so many of the world’s leading global brands rely on Lakeside. And it’s how our customers see an average ROI of more than 250%. Learn how you can get a better view at lakesidesoftware.com.

Why Work With Us

Lakeside Software is recognized as a DEX market leader by Gartner, Forrester, and ISG. Building off of its long history, the Lakeside of today has made massive strides to modernize the programs and strategies that positively impact our employees. We are customer-first and that value saturates all areas of our business, starting with our people.

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