Associate Product Manager

Overview

The Golf Business Unit’s Software Associate Product Manager (Product Owner) will execute strategies and help set priorities in our industry-leading commercial operation software, CirrusPRO™.  This opportunity is to learn and drive a product that optimizes irrigation in golf course applications utilizing data from Rain Bird’s platform and 3rd party partners.  This role helps provide the world’s finest courses with tools that enable consistent, high-quality play through the Intelligent use of Water™. 

You will use your experience in Agile enterprise software development to generate profitable growth by ensuring that all team members understand what needs to be built and why.  You will lead the execution of product line strategies, including those related to new product and feature development, life-cycle management, product quality and positioning through our product development cycle. 

Responsibilities

• Ensure that features and feature release strategies are well defined through partnership with the Product Manager.
• Managing the backlog and ensure that priorities to support growth plans are communicated across your assigned teams.
• Collaborate with the product manager, scrum master, and RTE (project manager) to ensure highest priory items are completed without delays and release strategies are upheld.
• Improve customer satisfaction by partnering with support items and partnering with quality leads on improvement projects. 
• Partner with Global Tech Support (GSP) to catalog and prioritize field feedback and prioritize actions to resolve bugs/defects..
• Drive constant improvement with the scrum master and team of Agile practitioners to ensure that ceremonies have positive impact on future development.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in business, marketing, computer, data science or related technology.
• 1-4 years of experience as a product owner, scrum master or related role, in an Agile environment.
• Ability to demonstrate an analytical, data-driven approach to drive decisions and projects.
• Innate passion to innovate and deliver value to customers through technology.
• Use of common business and collaboration tools to advocate for market driven priorities.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience developing commercial or enterprise B2B software, utilizing SAFe
• Credentialed with appropriate SAFe certification(s).
• Comfort with challenging the status quo and managing change in mature, global organizations.
• Experience refining or deconstructing features using the Atlassian suite of software development tools.
• Master's degree or graduate level courses taken in business, marketing or technology fields.
• Experience in the golf market, irrigation, or adjacent industries.

Rain Bird is an Equal Opportunity Employer