Milwaukee Tools is looking for a Product Owner who can act as a servant leader within a Product Team that designs, develops, and launches new products and features that improve the overall One-Key experience.

One-Key eliminates downtime on job sites by delivering tool and equipment asset management for professional contractors through Bluetooth-enabled tools, devices, hardware, and software solutions.

Ideal candidates are outstanding communicators that thrive in a fast-paced work environment. Strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication, are requirements. Individuals should have a passion for empathizing with our users and our business's needs and behaviors and solve them with excellent solutions.

You'll be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities:

• Take the role of servant leader lead of a Product Teams as the Product Owner
• Provide organization, direction, and clarity to one of our Agile Product Teams and Product Managers and create requirements
• Lead the Product Teams functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of our technology and the needs of our users
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with Product Management strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to user need
• Lead the planning for a Product Team around feature release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices (or the applicable software development methodology chosen by your Product Team) and the latest trends

The TOOLS you'll bring with you:

• Previous working experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst for 1-3 years
• Bachelor's degree, or higher education level in Software Engineering or related discipline
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strong technical skills and can speak with and motivate the Product Team
• Customer-focused and have a passion for creating digital product solutions that solve problems for users
• Demonstrated experience with the modern web, mobile, and native iOS/Android application development and testing
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to details

The TOOLS that would be helpful to have:

• Experience with programs such as: Asana, Hubspot, Firebase, Jira, SQL, PowerPoint
• Curious minds that are always willing to learn
• Introspective and self-aware
• Efficient and focused mono-tasking
• A well-informed point of view with a healthy dose of humility
• A collaborative mindset
• A personality that thrives in an agile/ nimble environment
• Willingness to take risks
• Possess equal enthusiasm to grow as a team and as an individual contributor

What you can EXPECT for DAY TO DAY Tasks: 

Up-Front

• Work with the Product Managers to help define the Product Team's roadmap.
• Define technical roadmap to accomplish Product Team roadmap; how do we break the work down to accomplish the goals of the team.
• Collaborate amongst other Product Teams to identify interdependencies.
• Develop user stories that explain the work to be done to Developers.
• Gather feedback on user stories from the team and iterate on them to help prioritize the Team's product backlog.
• Assign work to be done to developers in 2-week increments.
• Facilitate meetings; Daily standup, Refinement, Backlog grooming, planning, etc.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to define timelines.
• Help the team to define OKRs (Objectives and Key Results -- OR quarterly goals that the team looks to satisfy) and make sure the team is striving to meet them quarterly.
• Create an environment where all functions of the team feel they're heard and can shape the pace of the work.
• Partner with Development Managers to identify areas of improvement.
• Work with end-users to define the WHY and WHAT of a feature being worked on.
• Strategize and conduct end-user/usability testing throughout each development stage.

In Development

• Address impediments from the team and reprioritize accordingly.
• Work with Quality Assurance to define the test plan, expected outcome of the user stories that the developers work on, and priority bugs.
• Work with manufacturing to identify any gaps around a feature and define a timeline. Connect manufacturing, engineering, and software development so timelines match expected outcomes.
• Connect with social media, in-app marketing, and outbound marketing to define the product marketing experience.
• Partner with Quality Assurance team to prioritize bugs for Developers to address.

Post-Launch / Post Sprint- Cycle

• Communicate release updates at the end of each sprint and project status out to the stakeholders.
• Collect analytics to around released features to help define/validate project value.
• Hold repeatable team retrospectives to identify successes, areas of opportunity, and process improvements.
• Host departmental demos to discover cross-team opportunities to partner on.