Lead Product Owner

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing…

Verizon Connect provides GPS-enabled fleet management and tracking products that help businesses reduce fleet costs, increase productivity and improve customer satisfaction.

Our best-in-class solutions deliver a comprehensive set of capabilities including real time mapping, detailed activity reports, email alerts and more – all delivered through an easy-to-use web based interface.

We have an immediate need for a Product Owner Lead to lead product team members in the development of valuable additions to our growing suite of products.

This is a highly impactful role within the Verizon Connect Product Team. You will be responsible for managing a team in the definition of the product requirements and engaging with leadership teams to ensure the success of our Fleet Management products. You will need to be self-directed and collaborative and cultivate relationships with teams & partners.

• Leading, managing and mentoring a team of Product Owners to effectively deliver all initiatives within Product Line.

• Clearly communicating the roadmap, product plans, project status updates and timelines to internal stakeholder teams to both influence and ensure alignment and cross-functional readiness.

• Effectively communicating at all levels of management within the organisation with clear, assertive and decisive communication using rationale to establish leadership buy in.

• Ensuring team is clear on the company strategy and business priorities and how their work supports it.

• Defining data analysis strategy required to support Product Line, and factor research & data into decision making and recommendations.

• Providing direction to Product Owners to continuously evolve their understanding of the market, customer & success metrics, and guide their engagement with customers.

• Ensuring the team consistently measure quality and impact of the product/features delivered through defined metrics and are enabled to analyse and assess initiative success to inform future delivery.

• Driving initiatives to maintain competitive intelligence as well as continuously improve product processes within their Product Line, and ensure team adoption.

• Outlining process to team for creation of stories and other artifacts to ensure consistent high quality deliverables.

• Closely collaborating and establishing alignment with cross-functional Leadership on resource planning and quality.

• Partnering effectively with Product, UX, and Engineering Leadership, as well as customer facing teams and customers to uncover new insights that help drive product strategy.

• Ensuring support of the strategic roadmap process.

• Ensuring GTM needs are prioritised and met for all projects under remit.

• Managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced and changing environment.

• Assisting with other Product Management responsibilities as needed.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.

• Experience as Product Owner/Business Analyst/Technical Project Manager in a technical environment with experience in a leadership position.

• Experience operating in an Agile & Lean/Kanban product dev environment, interacting with both hardware and software development processes.

Even better if you have...

• Knowledge of managing and building consumer electronic hardware/devices.

• Experience in creating superior user experiences for Mobile & Web-based products.

• Experience working with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), working in an SOA environment (Service-oriented architecture).

• Understanding of Telematics.

• API (Application programming interface) or microservice specification knowledge.

• Experience working with SQL, JSON and/or XML, performing data queries in databases, validating data quality.

• Experience working in Wiki & JIRA.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation, and writing skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities.

• Hold an advanced engineering degree (EE, CS, ME, similar) w/high technical aptitude or extensive practical experience working with IoT solutions.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.