Product Owner

Position Summary

The Product Owner (PO) serves as a liaison between our customers, business units and Tech to define and prioritize work for development teams by aligning features and user stories with business value. The Product Owner is the voice of the customer, stakeholder, and end user. The Product Owner works closely with developers and analysts to create executable stories and provides final approval that ensures delivered stories meet user acceptance criteria. This individual is responsible for building and maintaining a prioritized Product Backlog, based on stakeholder feedback. They are also responsible for participating in the development and execution of the product roadmap. Product Owners will participate in all scrum ceremonies.

The Product Owner is a trusted partner and builds strong relationships with all stakeholders. They should be contributing participants in the Product Owner Community of Practice. They should be actively mentoring others. The PO has an advanced understanding of Agile and is actively implementing it within their team. Typically, a Product Owner will be able to independently support multiple scrum teams.

About The Team

The Corporate Services technology team supports a variety of different business units. Our portfolio is made up of three distinct scrum teams: Financials & Compliance, Human Capital Management (HCM), and Enterprise Content

Management (ECM). In this role, you will be working with the Financials & Compliance side of the house. The Financials & Compliance team works with business teams such as Accounting, Treasury, Internal Audit, Facilities, and more.

Primary Qualifications

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical or business experience.
• Experience in Agile product ownership, software development, Scrum, and phases of the project life cycle.
• Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications that can be used for development and break down technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by business units and end users.
• Build and maintain the Product Backlog of user stories (detailed requirements) and defects. Partner with product stakeholders and business leaders to prioritize user stories. Ensure product status is communicated.

Desired Skills

• Basic understanding of how AWS and other SaaS products work.
• Strong ability to work effectively within time constraints, changing priorities, and independently.
• Ability to conduct multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to develop and articulate a product vision that supports outcomes, value, and prioritization of work.
• Experience in project management, group facilitation, data gathering, and phases of software life cycle (requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring effectiveness).
• Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications that can be used for development and break down technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by business units and end users.
• Experience in JIRA and Agile Methodology.
• Product Ownership/Business Analysis experience.
• Good negotiation skills and be comfortable saying no in a manner that is well received by others.
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Standard industry certifications such as CSPO or PSPO, preferred.
• Deep understanding of product vision and articulate that vision to the development teams.

Why Clayton Homes?

Founded in 1956, Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway Company committed to opening doors to a better life and Building Happyness® through homeownership. Through its family of brands, Clayton builds, sells, finances, and ensures traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing – including modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod™ homes, tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks, and apartments. Corporate headquarters is located in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, specifically, Maryville, Tennessee. Clayton is the recipient of numerous industry awards including 2019

Builder of the Year and ranks as the #2 builder of homes in the U.S. by units sold. Our site-built division, Clayton Properties Group, is the 8th largest site builder in the U.S. We achieve our results through the strength of our people and have been recognized on the 2021 Forbes Best Employers for Diversity and 2021 Forbes America’s Best Employers Lists. To learn more about Clayton Homes, got to: https://www.claytonhomes.com

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match of the first 4%; medical, dental and vision plans; paid time off days and holidays.
• Quarterly bonus program.
• Forbes lists: America’s Best Employers, America’s Employers by State, Best Employers for Diversity, Best Employers for Women.
• Recognized as one of East Tennessee’s top technology workplaces.
• Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being.
• Onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes, volleyball and basketball, ping-pong, and disc golf course.
• Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.