Staff Product Owner

Overview At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions. Responsibilities We are seeking a Product Owner with overlap to Product Management to join our AIOps Technology and Engineering team. This team will be responsible for reinventing observability in enterprises, reimagining, conceiving, and building solutions that apply intelligence to how our customers observe, act & automate all aspects of work. We bring to life products that are powered by data and ML/AI, and develop and deliver a range of solutions that work seamlessly with the rich product offerings from SolarWinds across network, infrastructure, applications, data, ML, and business observability. We process several billions of data points a day, and design and build ML-powered applications that provide our customers meaningful insights from their data and make them actionable in real-time. This will be ideal for you if you are passionate about the intersection of application and systems engineering, operating cloud services at scale and live and breathe reliability, security, performance and scale, are adept at bold early-stage ideas that can be developed through execution to impact customers on a global scale and are also able to upskill the engineering organization by example. In this role, you will work with our product management leadership and GTM teams to manage the sprint backlogs for our teams to drive results and support our customers as they ramp up. Responsibilities • Collaborate with stakeholders to craft vision and concept development of a product • Take lead of scrum teams, defining product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities, communicating with stakeholders throughout the project • Work with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals • Work closely with product management/business teams to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI • Keep up with agile/scrum best practices and trends • Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product • Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy • Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals • Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities • Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product Qualifications Qualifications • IT industry experience • In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles • Understanding of business value around feature/functions • Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills • Able to effectively manage conflicting stakeholder needs • University degree a plus • Proficiency with applicable work management technology and tools What awaits you, besides top technology and great coworkers? We offer many benefits, such as growth opportunities and bonuses, but the main benefit is the great team of people working for SolarWinds, the people you can learn from. We promote self-education; that's why every year, you have ten days to spend by learning new things and not focusing on work. Moreover, we also encourage you to attend conferences, watch on-line tutorials, and talk to mentors. You can also improve your English or Czech in our language courses. Although we are currently working from home, you can visit our comfortable office with tasty coffee, snacks, fresh fruit, and vegetables waiting for you. Game rooms, billiard, Wii, and PS with VR might be great perks for you, but if you are not into that, you can bike to work or find colleagues who do the same sports as you. Life is not only about work, and that’s why you can take a deep breath on the 25 annual leave days or on the company-wide holiday on Martin Luther King Jr Day. At SolarWinds, we believe that local communities are important, and that's why you have two paid days per year for volunteering. We provide three sick days per year and offer localized counselling sessions to help you resolve difficult life situations within the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). You can join our Employee Stock Purchase Program; we contribute towards meal vouchers, offer MultiSport cards, pension or life insurance benefits, and flexible working hours. SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.