Job Description
The Product Owner supervises the entire lifecycle of a digital product, from inception to launch. The role requires a range of skills from market and customer research, designing the product architecture, UI development, to supply chain planning. Responsible for the overall vision of the product and leading the rollout of this vision into a successful launch. They act as a mediator between the consumers and the technical teams, communicating consumer needs and translating those needs into new product features for the team to design.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in leading mobile or frontend-related projects or products, understanding the nuances of mobile app development or frontend user experiences.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Drive product strategies and long-term vision specifically for mobile or frontend digital products
- Conduct user research and usability studies, collaborating with designers, developers, and research teams from end to end of the process. Experience in mobile app user experience and frontend performance optimization is highly preferred.
- Ability to craft a product vision (short to long term) and convert that into a concrete strategy, with specific focus on mobile and frontend technologies.
- Participate in market research, validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities.
- Partner with business owners and agile product teams to build product roadmaps for mobile and frontend solutions that will be incorporated into the broader company product portfolio plan.
- Lead the development of mobile apps or frontend experiences, responsible for the complete product lifecycle from conceptualization to implementation.
- Work on handling, storing, processing, and analyzing large data sets to identify business opportunities/efficiencies.
- Evaluate, analyze, and understand the voice of the customer through a variety of data sources, with a focus on improving mobile or frontend user experiences.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Handle the product roadmap and backlog for mobile apps, frontend systems, and other digital products.
- Oversee and lead requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing for mobile and frontend-focused projects.
- Partner with the executive teams to identify key capabilities needed as well as identifying potential issues, specifically around mobile and frontend development.
- Partner with cross-functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization.
- Run the roadmap and backlog to ensure that IT delivers all capabilities on time and per expectation.
- Work with product marketing to develop positioning and messaging to ensure differentiation from competitors, with a strong focus on mobile and frontend product advantages.
- Supervise and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements, particularly in the mobile and frontend areas.
Key Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in Agile as a Business SME or Product Owner and with Agile tools and technologies (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- BS degree or equivalent experience is required.
- Validated experience leading mobile app or frontend development projects, with a clear understanding of the challenges and strategies involved in mobile app development or frontend frameworks.
- Experience working with decision makers, guiding expectations, and balancing opposing priorities.
- Experience in omnichannel product development - mobile app and frontend product development experience is required. Ability to frame solutions with a forward-looking strategic roadmap.
- Strong knowledge of mobile development technologies (iOS, Android) or frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js).
- Shown experience in product development, user experience design, customer journeys, and product lifecycle management.
- Data-driven and experience with defining and tracking metrics for decision making, with a focus on mobile and frontend performance metrics.
- Experience in B2C or B2B mobile app development or frontend web applications (highly desirable).
- Experience with B2C and B2B Digital Commerce and Marketing Technology platforms (highly desirable).
- Experience writing SQL queries, and a working understanding of frontend and mobile programming languages such as Java, HTML, CSS, Angular JS.
Licenses and Certifications:
- Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) / Agile or SAFe Product Owner certificate - POPM
Life at Capgemini
Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.
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Disclaimer
Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.
This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.
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Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority,performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. The base salary range for the tagged location is $97,700-$182,624.This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.