Randstad Junior Technical Product Owner in Rockville, Maryland

Junior Technical Product Owner

job details:

  • location:Rockville, MD

  • salary:$50 - $55 per hour

  • date posted:Wednesday, February 13, 2019

  • job type:Contract

  • industry:Finance and Insurance

  • reference:670362

job description

Junior Technical Product Owner

job summary:

Randstad Technologies, a global and national leader in the IT Staffing and Services industry has an immediate need for a Junior Technical Product Owner to sit onsite in Rockville, MD to join a highly talented and growing development team.

This is a long term contract paying up to $55/hr. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

location: Rockville, Maryland

job type: Contract

salary: $50 - 55 per hour

work hours: 9am to 6pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

  • Work with Developers and UX Designers to deliver a compelling product that solves the critical business problems and delights end-users.

  • Guide and support the project team during development to ensure that business goals are achieved.

  • Drive continual product improvements based on ongoing customer research and usability studies.

  • Prioritize a product backlog based upon business impact and effort; help make resource tradeoff decisions as needed.

  • Develop product vision and roadmaps, and assist in budgeting and the preparation of business cases

qualifications:

  • Bachelors degree in business, IT, or other related discipline.

  • Masters degree preferred.

  • 2-4 years in Product Management, Engineering or Product Marketing.

  • Technical background with some knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Ability to use sound judgment when resolving complex problems.

  • Well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities

  • Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships that improved the quality of work products.

  • Proficient at technical business writing, including functional requirement specifications, workflows, use-cases and other documentation methodologies.

skills:

  • Experience w/ data analysis and story-telling with data.

  • Experience creating dashboards and reports in the past.

  • SQL querying skills to self-service the data needed to do the analysis.

  • Experience w/ one of the following: Cognos Analytics, Tableau, Sisense)

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