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About You

You have a passion and track record for delivering native mobile and responsive web applications while building a consultative, delivery-first relationship with your enterprise-level clients as a Product Owner. You thrive in leading agile software teams and understand the nuances of design, development, and testing. You have expertise in making complex technology understandable, translating a product vision into an actionable product backlog, and driving empathy with your team by "getting in the weeds" to solve challenges together.

As Product Owner, you will be responsible for executing the product vision while facilitating backlog grooming, prioritization, issue triaging, and other Scrum-based ceremonies. You should have a unique blend of business and technical understanding to effectively communicate with both the client and your team. You must enjoy learning about the product and understanding its users in order to make the best decisions for the product.

 

About Us

For over a decade, Punchkick has partnered with clients in every industry to bring digital products to life through human-centered design, user research, and bleeding-edge agile software development. We deliver on our promise to be the best decision our clients have ever made by building a team of smart, motivated, and adaptable technology fanatics.

 

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with Client and/or internal Product Management to create and maintain the product backlog
  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize product feature backlog to ensure team is focused on delivering maximum value
  • Run agile ceremonies with distributed team members
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Facilitate communication between client stakeholders and delivery team members
  • Mitigate impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Provide product demos and presentations to clients
  • Monitor and communicate project health through status and burndown reporting
  • Work with QA engineers to create test plans
  • Coordinate and lead the product launch activities
  • Set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and products

Requirements

  • Agency experience highly preferred, client-facing experience is a must
  • 2+ years of product ownership or business analyst experience
  • Preferred: Scrum certification (CSPO/PSPO or similar)
  • Preferred: B2B and B2C software development experience
  • Preferred: Experience with web and mobile development
  • Ability to pick up technical and business concepts quickly
  • Strong sense of empathy for client, end-user, and team
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent organizational, time management, and project management skills
  • Tools: Experience with Jira required, Sketch (or similar design-based tool) is preferred
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Zac Charnecki
Partner
A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
Encouraging an impactful and creative culture
“We are a firm of entrepreneurs. And let’s face it, people work to be compensated,” said Charnecki. Once associates’ needs are met with pay and benefits, though, “things shift dramatically to a desire for career satisfaction and work engagement.” The company helps encourage those aspirations to engage, learn, grow and create through Wipfli’s formal innovation pipeline; its center for empowerment; and programs like performance coaching, the company’s knowledge base, learning center and a new work alignment platform, which will provide performance metrics to Wipfli associates.
“We are a firm of entrepreneurs. And let’s face it, people work to be compensated,” said Charnecki. Once associates’ needs are met with pay and benefits, though, “things shift dramatically to a desire for career satisfaction and work engagement.” The company helps encourage those aspirations to engage, learn, grow and create through Wipfli’s formal innovation pipeline; its center for empowerment; and programs like performance coaching, the company’s knowledge base, learning center and a new work alignment platform, which will provide performance metrics to Wipfli associates.
“Our leadership team encourages aiming high and stretching ourselves through a lot of training and experience opportunities.”
Lumi Paulson
Consultant, Human Capital Management; Wipfli Pride Communications Chair
CULTIVATING COMMUNITY
Impacting the office, giving back to the community
As Wipfli Pride Business Resource Group’s communications chair, Paulson works to communicate and educate throughout the firm to advance a more inclusive culture. Wipfli Pride recently introduced pronoun and inclusive language training, as part of a larger program, which has graduated 10 trainers equipped to strengthen associates’ understanding of gender inclusivity. Additionally, Wipfli Pride has partnered with Wipfli’s charitable trust, the Wipfli Foundation, to support organizations like GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, The Trevor Project and National Center for Transgender Equality.
As Wipfli Pride Business Resource Group’s communications chair, Paulson works to communicate and educate throughout the firm to advance a more inclusive culture. Wipfli Pride recently introduced pronoun and inclusive language training, as part of a larger program, which has graduated 10 trainers equipped to strengthen associates’ understanding of gender inclusivity. Additionally, Wipfli Pride has partnered with Wipfli’s charitable trust, the Wipfli Foundation, to support organizations like GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, The Trevor Project and National Center for Transgender Equality.
“Wipfli is very open to seeing all perspectives, to growth and to striving to be a great place to work.”
Alex Yeh
Product Owner
CARING COWORKERS
A culture that values community
If Alex Yeh had to distill Wipfli’s culture into one word, it would be “nurturing.” In his role, his overarching responsibilities are to maximize the value his team delivers to clients and to support his colleagues as they solve myriad challenges. That feeling of support goes both ways, too. “People are not only willing to help out — they are willing to help you grow,” Yeh said. “I’m invested in my team members’ success and can confidently say they are invested in mine.” With ongoing projects in the works with Wipfli’s design team, Yeh has no hesitation that the camaraderie will continue.
If Alex Yeh had to distill Wipfli’s culture into one word, it would be “nurturing.” In his role, his overarching responsibilities are to maximize the value his team delivers to clients and to support his colleagues as they solve myriad challenges. That feeling of support goes both ways, too. “People are not only willing to help out — they are willing to help you grow,” Yeh said. “I’m invested in my team members’ success and can confidently say they are invested in mine.” With ongoing projects in the works with Wipfli’s design team, Yeh has no hesitation that the camaraderie will continue.
“There is genuine caring and camaraderie between the members of my teams and it’s evident in my daily interactions with everyone. There is a sense of community and trust that makes it easy for me to feel like I belong.”

What are Wipfli Perks + Benefits

Wipfli Benefits Overview

At Wipfli, curious is our approach to the world. We push beyond the obvious answers to find smarter solutions for clients and look at business challenges from every angle. People matter here, and they feel it. We invest in your career development through tuition reimbursement, external training support, LinkedIn Learning access and our internal online learning center and leadership training.

We also back up our mission to provide a strong work-life balance with great benefits, UTO, wellness benefits and programs to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We are committed to helping our communities and support time off for associates to volunteer. On average, they volunteer a combined 15,000+ hours each year.
Partners with nonprofits
The Wipfli Foundation supports education programs that support furthering diverse representation in our industry.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
All associates are required to attend unconscious bias training.
Diversity employee resource groups
This year, we launched three business resource groups (Women of Wipfli, Wipfli Pride and Embrace ) to give voice to and elevate issues inside our firm for diverse groups. And we plan to add more.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Including surrogacy
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
We are committed to helping our communities and support time off for associates to volunteer. On average, they volunteer a combined 15,000+ hours each year.
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Punchkick observes all major holidays and supports observation of all religious holidays.
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Our culture is steeped in values focused on our associates and it drives the benefits we offer

• Empower: We give our people the opportunities and resources to find, follow and grow to achieve their dream career.

• Connected: We value everyone’s individual strengths, and we cultivate a culture where relationships thrive.

• Impact: Our passion for excellence drives us to get results through our expertise, experience and teamwork.

• Transparency: We welcome candor so all voices and perspectives come together to solve problems and serve clients.

• Flexibility: We give people the freedom to shift their career paths and achieve work-life balance, which creates happier and more productive teams.

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