Careers

Description 

The Product Owner is responsible for communicating the product vision to the team and the overall product features from concept to delivery. They understand the customer and market needs and drive development priorities to maximize the product value. The Product Owner is responsible for developing and maintaining the functional backlog of epics, features, and stories.  

The Product Owner partners with product strategy, architects, internal customers, product marketing, development teams to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met with each product release.  

The Product Owner is responsible for the design, usability, quality and delivery of a product or feature. They are a key decision maker on priorities and design decisions, and work to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned at each stage of the development lifecycle. The Product Owner understands both the engineering and business side of the product release and is ultimately responsible for representing the end user’s needs. 

Skills and Responsibilities 

• Support and articulate the definition of the vision, strategy and direction of product investment as it relates to how internal development teams build their products
• Work closely with product management to align market needs and product roadmap with specific features and functionality 
• Able to understand and represent the customer and end user’s needs and translate into functional features and requirements           
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to identify product, business, and functional requirements based on specific use cases and user journeys
• Identify non-functional needs such as usability, performance, security, and service levels and lead the definition of requirements with the development team 
• Lead sessions to collaborate and align on acceptance criteria and other details for user stories
• Communicate product and platform tradeoffs to leadership stakeholders and teams to facilitate decision-making 
• Take ownership of the product backlog maintenance and prioritization    
• Create and collaborate on feature overviews, detailed designs, documentation, and prototypes, using Agile methodologies
• Actively lead where appropriate, in Agile ceremonies, using Jira and other tools to document stories and manage the process        
• Create product documentation such as user manuals and support content
• Support sales by configuring product demonstrations and preparing relevant data 
• Able to build strong relationships and influence internal partners 
• Able to work across multi-functional teams of developers, testers, product management and support

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in product management or ownership
• Strong business acumen and external / internal partnership skills
• 1+ years of experience working with utilities 
• Excellent business writing skills

Preferred Qualifications 

• 5-7 years of overall experience
• 2+ years of experience working in the utility industry (electric or gas)
• Preferred 2+ years Agile Scrum and Kanban experience
• Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps or a similar management tool to support the end-to-end development lifecycle
• Rules Engine experience 
• Experience working with GIS systems or GIS data
• Software development and/or database experience

TRC Digital Overview 

• In a world where energy supply and consumption are becoming increasingly more dynamic, bidirectional, and complex, energy providers are challenged to maintain a standard of safe, reliable and resilient power. Distributed energy resource (DER) technologies and associated go to market adoption models are proliferating at a staggering rate, amongst a backdrop where traditional utility customers are transitioning from consumers to prosumers, becoming more sophisticated and more insistent on a reduced carbon footprint. These changes are occurring in an environment where, in order to support the penetration of DERs, the grid infrastructure requires more intense and targeted maintenance, and the shift of previously centralized decision making to new devices that sit at the very edge of the grid.  
• To address the challenges and seize the opportunities provided by this new energy landscape, TRC Digital offers an array of expertise to provide to our client partners. Our experts have delivered fully integrated software solutions to well over 30 North American utilities. TRC Digital is an expert services and solutions integration team, focused specifically on implementing partner led software technologies that will bridge today’s realities with tomorrow’s possibilities. TRC Digital has partnered with a true best of breed collection of software providers that address critical needs in the areas of DERs, DER Planning & Validation, DER Optimization & Dispatch, customer engagement, and new grid infrastructure. Our team members become deeply engaged with each of our partners, providing both deep utility and vendor specific domain expertise, ensuring we provide our clients with holistic solutions that scale with our partner operations and customer expectations. We draw upon our experience delivering these solutions for the past decade and enhance them with the expanse of experience and capability of TRC.  
• Our team of experts have an average of 15 years of experience in their relative disciplines and have played an integral part in the evolution of both the technologies and the market acceptance of such.  
• We are focused — our integration and delivery approaches ensure we are driving the most value/highest ROI from the installation of OT systems into the utility IT landscape. Our aim is to deliver cost effective technology that solves today’s challenges while enabling future opportunities for utilities and their customers.  
• We are committed — our track record combined with the half-century of TRC’s execution accomplishments ensures our clients receive a reliable, scalable, and fully useable solution, and more importantly, one our client can trust, leverage, and build on, in the years ahead.  
• We partner with our clients — we listen to our clients to understand their business processes and help weave our software partner solutions into the very fabric of the client business, and in some cases that of end customers. Our clients’ view us as the “go to” team as they face this emerging landscape and embrace the new energy future.