Product Owner

Are you craving the challenge of building complex systems? Really smart systems where performance and speed are essential without sacrificing the working environment?If this appeals to you, join a purpose-driven, fast-growing enterprise software company that is working to transform Public Safety.The power to do remarkable things when it matters most is the heart of public safety. At RapidDeploy, we believe that regardless of size, geography or budget, everyone in public safety should have access to the data they need when it matters most to save more lives. That’s why, since 2016, our mission has been to reduce emergency response times and improve public safety. We are the industry’s only truly open and integrated emergency response platform with a portfolio of web-based cloud solutions that includes analytics, mapping, dispatch and first responder applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
  • Break down features to be developed into executable milestones and individual user stories
  • Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior groomed work that meets our Definition of Ready
  • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
  • Serve as the voice of the client within your feature team
  • Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Lead the planning for product releases and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
  • Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
  • Follow our competitors and the industry, keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends 

Skills/Experience:

  • Previous working experience as a Product Owner for at least 3 year
  • In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
  • Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills, Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Creative thinker with a vision
  • Attention to detail

About RapidDeploy Inc.• Fast-growing, passionate, mission-driven team – we care about saving lives through technology!• We are people-centric and ensure an environment where employees are encouraged to grow and learn every day• Offices in Austin, TX and Cape Town, South Africa 
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RapidDeploy is the industry’s only truly open and integrated emergency response platform, transforming 9-1-1 communications centers of any size into data-centric organizations. RapidDeploy achieves new levels of situational awareness and reduces 9-1-1 response time by seamlessly integrating third-party data ensuring it is available when, where and how Telecommunicators and First Responders need it. Our company’s web-based cloud platform includes analytics, mapping, dispatch and first responder applications. With more than 325 years of collective experience in public safety and as first responders, RapidDeploy understands what Agencies, Telecommunicators and First Responders face every day. We know from first-hand experience how data benefits 9-1-1.