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Jacobs Product Owner 
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 
206057187

07.09.2024
Your impact

StreetLight Data, the pioneer in Big Data for mobility, is revolutionizing transportation and urban planning to help the world better deploy infrastructure and adapt to new forms of mobility. From legacy systems to ride sharing and bike sharing to autonomous vehicles, our platform powers 6,000+ mobility projects every month for government and private clients, and we are just getting started.

Reporting to the Director of Product, you will collaborate with our other product managers, engineering, marketing, and sales to plan, build, release and drive successful sales and adoption of both new and existing products. This position requires strong product management experience in data products and APIs (application programming interfaces), along with expertise in analytics and statistical methods. A background in SaaS (Software as a Service) and/or transportation planning or related fields is a strong plus.

Product Owner Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively synthesizes and presents plans to stakeholders

• Acts as the main point of contact between teams and stakeholders

• Acts as a servant leader to the scrum/product development team to meet the objectives of each sprint

• Defines the task level specifications driven by customer needs

• Ensures that the Product Backlog is prioritized, emergent, estimated, and transparent

• Flags financial, strategic, and performance risks

• Maps metrics dependencies, blockers, and product risks

• Ensures the product fits the Minimum Adoptable Product standard

As Product Owner, you will:

• Understand the StreetLight organization, business objectives and growth plans, product constituencies, and product management needs

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the transportation planning and operations industry through self-learning, support of our internal industry experts and proactive interaction with our sales team, prospects, and

customers to support successfully developing product requirements that meet end customer needs

• Develop a working understanding of development process across the platform and product offerings, including data science / data engineering and the feature commercialization processes at StreetLight including system architecture, data pipelines, algorithms and machine learning techniques, web application back-end and front end and APIs

• Develop and maintain an intimate understanding of our data platform and end-user products including underlying data, validation processes, transportation metrics, calibration techniques and visualizations and their applications in customer use cases

• Enable the development and commercialization of new data metrics for the transportation industry and their integration into our platform

• Translate company strategy, business objectives, system-architecture, and voice of the customer into clear, concrete product increments, epics, user stories, functional specifications, and other assets to ensure project alignment and transparency for collaborators, sponsors, and project contributors

• Gather, generate, and align objectives from business partners, designers, developers, project managers, and other functions within our business, guiding them into functional requirements

• Act as a representative for products throughout the development lifecycle to ensure outputs meet stakeholder needs, participating in and leading key agile meetings, and resolving scope and technical conflicts

• Communicate product status to all stakeholders, including executive leadership

• Communicate effectively across the organization to provide the appropriate level of transparency on upcoming Product plans, releases, & roadmaps to Executives, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and others with a need to know

• Have ownership of product requirements and roadmaps while contributing to business reviews, strategies, and collaboration between teams

• Work closely with strategy, product management, product owners and other business functions to evaluate the business, technical, and strategic projects

• Work with the Data Science and Data Engineering teams to scope, estimate, and plan the implementation of the product and coordinate its schedule with other deliverables

• Embed with and lead autonomous teams to deliver throughout product stages

Here's what you'll need

3 or more years of product ownership experience in commercial software companies focused on big data, mobility, or navigation products and/or services that utilize machine learning in a quantitative field

• Experience in a SaaS product environment into the commercial/governmental market is a strong plus

• BS (Bachelor of Sciences) or equivalent in Engineering or Computer Science, or in Civil Engineering with concentration in Transportation Planning or equivalent

• Proven record of accomplishment of effectively gathering and transforming complex market data and customer into insights to produce prioritized product roadmaps

• Demonstrated experience collaboratively working in a product development environment with data scientists, data / software engineers, QA (Quality Assurance) and support to define and deliver products, manage release schedules, and support Marketing and Sales in go-to-market education, training and launch processes

• Professional experience in Agile Development methodologies a must have

• Naturally, a model-based thinker with good business and technical judgment, numerically facile with ability to create new frameworks for data /information analysis, balance competing priorities and interests, and evaluate and transparently communicate the trade-offs between execution options

• Superior verbal, written and visual communication skills that enable you to clearly explain complex concepts to internal or external audiences through formal and informal, verbal, and written presentations and reports

• Experience using a wide range of tools and technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office applications, project management tools GIS (Geographical Information System) systems a strong plus

• Extremely well-organized, logical thinker with a positive outlook that can take large projects and break them down into manageable tasks with achievable goals and schedules for yourself and others

• Committed to capturing and using data to measure performance and inform decision-making whenever possible, practical, and valuable, while also applying intuition to balance across market demand, competitive response, and customer satisfaction

• Self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys problem-solving

• Open, honest, direct, and respectful communicator, a collaborative team player that knows how to work with others to get things done in a positive manner

• Passionate about making the world a better place for people to live, move, and work

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