What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Owner position at Schneider Electric?
Description of the Role
The Product Owner is a key leadership position who guides a scrum team to create high value releases. They will partner with product managers and R&D leaders to ensure strategy and execution alignment. The Product Owner will define, own, and maintain the backlog. They will set priorities (managing scope and change requests).
For this U.S. based position, the expected compensation range is $135,000 - $165,000 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.
The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our salary ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the salary range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Schneider Electric also offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees, inclusive of medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits)
flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, 401(k) match, well-being and recognition (including service anniversary) programs, 12 holidays per year, 15 days of paid time off per year (pro-rated in the first year of employment based on start date), opportunity to purchase company stock (eligibility depends on start date), and military leave benefits.
You must submit an online application to be considered for the position. The Company will accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Requirements
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
9% organic growth
150 000 employees in 100 countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
The Product Owner is a key leadership position who guides a scrum team to create high value releases. They will partner with product managers and R&D leaders to ensure strategy and execution alignment. The Product Owner will define, own, and maintain the backlog. They will set priorities (managing scope and change requests).
For this U.S. based position, the expected compensation range is $135,000 - $165,000 per year, which includes base pay and short-term incentive.
The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our salary ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the salary range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Schneider Electric also offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees, inclusive of medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits)
flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, 401(k) match, well-being and recognition (including service anniversary) programs, 12 holidays per year, 15 days of paid time off per year (pro-rated in the first year of employment based on start date), opportunity to purchase company stock (eligibility depends on start date), and military leave benefits.
You must submit an online application to be considered for the position. The Company will accept applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Requirements
- Ability to manage time while guiding multiple scrum teams.
- Facilitate and own Sprint Planningand Sprint Release events .
- Lead story refinement meetings, write User Stories (breaking down Epic level items) . Add acceptance criteria as implementation details are flushed out to meet Product Management’sepic level acceptance criteria.
- Maintains an up-to-date Backlog, prioritized by customer value , and regularly leads backlog refinement meetings
- Maintain team Roadmap, coordinating with Product Management.
- Gives final approval for all completed user stories via hands-on inspection
- Skill at explaining technical concepts to non-technical people, while also commanding respect within a technical scrum team
- Meet regularly with customers and other stakeholders to both defineand prioritize feature enhancements as well as bugs. Potential on-sites for escalations and detailed use case requirements gathering.
- Manage internal escalations from customer support including prioritization, communication, and resolution.
- Manage quality issues, application bugs,and crashes as well as associated mitigation plans. This includes prioritizing the bug list and cleaning it up as well as Azure alerts from production.
- Organize and manage all releases including the main release, hotfixes, service packsand support PM in planning for future releases.
- Projects release dates based on team historical velocity and backlog size
- Prioritize and track progress on securityreview
- Bachelor’s degree and 5-10 years of experience as a Product Owner with a track recordof releasing projects on time with quality standards upheld and no functional concessions
- Significant experienceas a presenter to both customers & internal leaders and stakeholders, with experience in saying 'No' when required.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
- Knowledge of an agile framework or method (e.,Scrum, Kanban), an in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles would be an advantage.
- Decision making: the ability to make decisions, even tough ones, and guide the team towards achieving the product vision.
- Analytical skills: the ability to analyze data, understand customer feedback and make data driven decisions to prioritize features and enhancements and bugs resolution.
- Adaptability: the ability to adapt to changes, quickly respond to any change and open to adjusting priorities based on evolving business needs.
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!
€40 billion global revenue
9% organic growth
150 000 employees in 100 countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
Salary : $135,000 - $165,000