Vokal, a leading Digital Experience Agency, is looking for a passionate Product Owner to join our growing team. Come take part in a supportive community where designers and developers across iOS, Android, and web collaborate to face exciting new challenges and redefine the way web and mobile impacts people’s lives. We’re prepared to give you the tools you need to be great at what you do, including six ways (and counting) to brew your coffee—or plenty of tea if you prefer. Your experience as a member of our team matters just as much as the experiences we create for our clients and the users of our products.
At Vokal, our Product Owners are passionate about building great mobile experiences. They champion the product and define its vision. Through this vision, the Product Owner provides a clear, inspirational goal for the team and maximizes the value of the work that Vokal does for its clients. By identifying the best fit between Vokal’s capabilities and client needs, defining product roadmaps, and delivering those products over multiple releases, the Product Owner grows long-term client relationships and value.
This is a highly collaborative role, working with clients, designers, developers, sales, and project managers. As a thought leader, the Product Owner will bring fresh ideas, perspectives and tools to individual projects and Vokal’s methodologies.
This position is based in our home office, located in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.
We also offer a competitive compensation package.
Position Responsibilities
Champion the products we deliver for our clients. Define and communicate their vision, and don’t let anything compromise that vision
Lead strategy and product-definition activities in order to develop a robust definition of the product. Groom and communicate the product backlog and acceptance criteria
Own product-related decisions during agile development, including accepting/rejecting user stories (i.e. features). Ensure effectiveness of kickoffs, iterations and retrospectives
Support Project Management to ensure timely deployment of applications and websites. Monitor and report on current deployments, including recommendations for roadmap updates and new projects
Provide light project management support on relevant projects
Contribute and develop new tools that increase Vokal’s capabilities and capacity to deliver great mobile experiences
Serve as key point of contact for clients and project stakeholders, ensuring they are aligned on key decisions, and that the implications of these decisions are understood
Support the Sales team by defining project plans that are customized for each client, working with Design and Development to identify the specific tools and methodologies best suited for each project
Desired Experience
Experience leading strategic planning including market assessments, competitive evaluations, business modeling
Product management experience in a technology-focused market, ideally in software and mobile
Experience using agile methodologies, best practices and critical tools. Experience leading, teaching and mentoring in agile a plus
Demonstrated capabilities in being tech-, business- and ux-savvy
Experience leading, coaching and mentoring teams that are spread across functions, and working on multi-faceted projects for extended times
Experience in client-service settings
Other Skills
You are comfortable with, and able to manage constructively: change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, playfulness, experimentation, informed risk taking
Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communicator
You are decisive and open to new ideas
You are a self-starter, entrepreneurial
You are a quick learner
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Vokal is an industry-leading digital experience agency specializing in mobile application development, responsive website development, user experience design, and branding in an interconnected world. We are redefining the expectations of what value mobile can create through our success in enterprise mobility management, digital development, and mobile experience design innovation.