Senior Product Owner

Job Overview:

The Senior Product Owner will be responsible for developing software requirement specifications to enable Exostar’s Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry customers to collaborate with their customers and suppliers. The product scope for this position includes procure-to-pay automation, order-to-cash automation, manufacturing visibility, and logistics and transportation visibility within the global A&D industry sectors.

The Senior Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst will work with technical team members and stakeholders to ensure success of the product feature delivery and adoption, while providing technical leadership and innovation to internal teams.

Responsibilities:

Your day if you join us:

• Develop user stories and manage them to completion
• Prioritize activity within sprints and releases
• Manage user acceptance testing
• Prioritize support requests and bug fixes
• Demonstrate products internally and externally
• Collaborate with internal teams to analyze information needs and functional requirements
• Deliver the following artifacts as needed: functional requirements, use cases, UI and interface designs, software requirements specification (SRS)
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to execute the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Provide draft product and training documentation, compile release notes, and define technical product specifications
• Bridge conversations between business users and engineering teams, translating complex supply chain processes into clear, testable product requirements
• Define and track product KPIs such as adoption, integration uptime, data quality, and partner onboarding velocity

Basic Qualifications:

You are a great fit for this role if you:

• 7-10 years of experience in product ownership or business analysis.
• Possess over 5 years of domain experience in Supply chain.
• Have a proven track record of managing zero-to-one initiatives, whether features or products.
• Are skilled in developing and tracking KPIs and metrics for product ownership.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and product skills, with the ability to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excel in verbal and written communication.
• Can interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Are adept at adapting and managing multiple priorities.
• Exhibit confident negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
• Take accountability for your work, show initiative, and are proactive.
• Have a strong focus on customer success.
• Have hands-on experience with supply chain workflows such as procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, ASN and shipping, inventory, and supplier collaboration.
• Are comfortable operating at the intersection of business and engineering, translating partner and customer requirements into precise specifications.

Preferred Qualifications:

You are exactly who we are looking for if you:

• Have experience with supply chain collaboration, execution and TMS solutions
• Working knowledge of EDI transactions, API’s and event-driven integration patterns.
• Experience onboarding external trading partners such as 3PL’s and Suppliers
• Experience in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry.
• Managed SaaS or Cloud applications.
• Proficient in using Jira and Confluence.
• Experienced in agile development.

Exostar - The Company:

Exostar’s cloud-based platforms create exclusive communities within the Aerospace and Defense, Life Sciences, and other highly regulated industries where members securely collaborate, share information, and operate compliantly. Within these communities we build trust. By analyzing community data, we provide insights and intelligence, enabling organizations to make better, timelier decisions, to mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently.

• We believe in employee development: we promote internally and provide training and educational assistance
• We provide a fun, engaged workplace, with social and community-building events
• We offer comprehensive benefits and flexible time off plans

Exostar is an Equal Employment Employer.  The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information.  Exostar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons in all facets of employment including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, training, benefits, transfers and working conditions.