Agile Product Owner Business Analyst
Workstate, United States
Job Description
Workstate seeks Product Owner / Business Analysts to join our high functioning agile teams.
If your mission is to find a career that delivers collaborative teamwork, active learning and mentoring, and leaving a legacy of world-class results, you’ll fit right in at Workstate.
We are looking for consultants who can motivate, galvanize and engage with our clients beyond hands-on keyboard, both diving into the work at hand, while envisioning a project’s future. Our consultants are quick on their feet, able to make fast, informed and smart decisions to save or propel client’s projects, champion their vision, and persevere in their quest for excellence.
Our clients seek long-term relationships and value quality above all, and put trust in our people, our deep skills, our guidance and our ability to listen, strategize and activate their solutions.
While our Central Office is located in Columbus, OH across from the North Market and close to Short North and Downtown / Arena District, we have distributed teams in San Francisco, Seattle and LA. We connect across the miles over Team Brunch every Friday where we share what we've been working on throughout the week and discuss new technology, tools and techniques that excite us. (Currently, there also may be dogs, cats and children involved in these virtual brunches.)
This position is only available to U.S. residents based in the continental U.S. who are eligible to work for any employer without need for visa sponsorship or transfer.
This is a remote-friendly position.
Requirements
Skills of interest include the following. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated some of these skills professionally but not necessarily all.
- Ability to patiently teach users how various product features work
- Able to manage multiple simultaneous initiatives and proactively respond to business needs
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to the organization’s changing needs
- Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile methodologies
- Understanding of web application development
- Ability to write user stories that capture the problem being solved for the business
- Ability to write business and functional requirements from a technical perspective while covering business needs
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoy working in a small team environment along with collaboration with remote teams
- Ability to use seasoned judgment to suggest approaches that optimize among customer needs, business constraints and technological realities
- Strong understanding of Jira
Don't meet every single requirement above? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs where they do not feel perfectly comfortable with each listed technical skill.
At Workstate we take a culture first approach to team building where we focus on attributes such as communication, collaboration, teamwork, diversity, and an interest in continual learning as much as we do on a comprehensive list of specific technical skills. This allows us to build teams where members have complementary technical skillsets while bringing our cultural approach to the forefront.
So if you are excited about this position but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with all the listed skills, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the person we are looking for in this or another role.
Benefits
Workstate Benefits
We are committed to our team’s well-being above all things, and believe offering robust insurance coverage is one good way to show it. We emphasize home, family and personal time as essential to our employees’ balanced work/life fit.
At Workstate, we offer a choice of several Health Insurance plans (including an HSA plan) and Dental, Vision and free Life packages for our employees and their families, including domestic partners.
We offer highly competitive Paid Time Off, with new hires receiving 15 days off in their first year. Employees also receive an additional 10 holidays beyond PTO.
Workstate employees receive generous sick time and bereavement benefits, in addition to maternity/paternity leave for birth and adoptive families.
Who are you, Workstate?
Workstate is a technology consulting company, built by technologists, for technologists. Throughout our 20-year history we’ve been on a mission to create the best home for people who love to build. Who are we? We’re builders.
How we build.
At Workstate, building doesn’t just apply to technology.
We apply it to everything we do -- building relationships, skillsets, retirement account