It Product Owner Salesforce (Remote)

IT Product Owner – Salesforce

Salary Range

IT Product Owner – Salesforce, Grade 15, exempt, $106,622.53- $149,271.53 per fiscal year, commensurate with experience.

Job Description Summary

As an IT Product Owner – Salesforce, you will be responsible for partnering with senior leadership to maximize the value delivered by the Salesforce team by ensuring the team backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs through solution discovery, thought leadership, and requirements definition.

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Product Ownership
• Lead the Salesforce product development team in creating the product road map.
• Administer Salesforce product backlog prioritization for the successful scheduling and completion of backlog items.
• Define the vision for the team’s product.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and other key stakeholders regularly to identify opportunities for maximum product utilization.
• Automate, optimize, and improve organization-wide efficiency and effectiveness in usage of Salesforce and related processes.
• Lead efforts to develop and grow Salesforce embracement.
• Provide leadership within Salesforce project team, including team ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, etc.
• Lead design and configuration to optimize the user experience for Salesforce business functions.
• Mentor product development team in best practices to optimize team efficiencies.
• Manage Workday releases by understanding and prioritizing potential enhancements.
• Project Management
• Responsible for the end-to-end management of Salesforce deliverables and is accountable for the project scope, schedule, budget, and overall quality of project delivery.
• Works with project sponsor and stakeholders across all phases of the project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, risk mitigation, monitoring and control, and closure.
• Effectively collaborates with team to mitigate risks and proactively supports planned and/or unplanned needs.
• Manages ongoing deliverables and determines appropriate priority of day-to-day tasks.
• Business Analysis
• Lead requirements gathering to formulate business specifications which drive at the core of the business problem to be solved.
• Maintain understanding of strategic business objectives.
• Assist the technical team in analyzing and translating business requirements.
• Assist quality assurance team or SMEs with conducting testing and documenting results, as needed.
• Document business processes, create training guides, and conduct end user training.
• Other duties as assigned.

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field AND a minimum of ten years’ experience in a combination of quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and product ownership. OR
• A combination of IT related post-secondary and/or professional education and demonstrated relevant work experience in a combination of quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and product ownership, equivalent to a total of fourteen years.
• Ten years’ experience with some the following project management tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, and Smartsheets.
• Seven years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile and waterfall.
• Three years’ experience as a Product Owner of Salesforce, including configuration experience
• Strong business process/operational knowledge (e.g., customer service, inventory management, procurement, accounting)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in information technology or related field and fourteen years’ experience in a combination of quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and product ownership.
• Twelve years’ experience with some the following project management tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, and Smartsheets.
• Nine years’ experience with various software development approaches including agile and waterfall.
• Five years’ experience as a Product Owner of Salesforce.

Position open until filled.

First review of applications will take place November 18th. If interested, please submit your application prior to this date to be considered.

Location:

• This is a remote position and is subject to Sourcewell’s telecommuting policies and procedures.
• On occasion, may be asked to travel to Staples, MN for meetings, professional development or team activities. Potentially twice per year. Notice will be given ahead of time.
• Sourcewell is currently accepting applications from all states, except the following: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Applicants living in or planning to relocate to a state not on this list are encouraged to apply. *

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Values

• Seek. Be curious.
• Empower. Be accountable and liberate others.
• Impact. Be a difference maker

Full Time/Part Time

Full time

Position Type

Regular

Scheduled Hours

40