Product Owner

Company Description

Publicis Re:Sources is the backbone of Publicis Groupe, the world’s third-largest communications group. Formed in 1998 as a small team to service a few Publicis Groupe firms, Publicis Re:Sources has grown to 4,000+ people servicing a global network of prestigious advertising, public relations, media, healthcare and digital marketing agencies. We provide technology solutions and business services including finance, accounting, legal, benefits, procurement, tax, real estate, treasury and risk management to help Publicis Groupe agencies do what they do best: create and innovate for their clients.  In addition to providing essential, everyday services to the 86,000+ global Publicis Groupe employees, we build products and support capabilities that advances Publicis Groupe’s long-term growth strategy — taking even the smallest ideas into big concepts and beyond.

In addition to providing essential, everyday services to our agencies, Publicis Re:Sources develops and implements platforms, applications and tools to enhance productivity, encourage collaboration and enable professional and personal development. We continually transform to keep pace with our ever-changing communications industry and thrive on a spirit of innovation felt around the globe. With our support, Publicis Groupe agencies continue to create and deliver award-winning campaigns for their clients.

The company is a premier shared services company serving the financial, technological and administrative needs of U.S.-based business units of the world’s third largest Communications company.  With 2021 net revenues of over 10 billion Euros, the parent company specializes in Advertising, Digital, Media buying and consultancy.  The parent company is present in over 100+ countries on 5 continents, with 100,000 employees.

Job Description

As a Product Owner, you will collaborate with senior business leaders to drive major change initiatives by building best-in-class and unique products. You will bring a passion for customer needs, understanding business value, and delivering value across product increment cycles.

• Partner with client/business, strategists, experience leads and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide a better business value and customer experience.

• Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research by keeping customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools. 
• Collaborate/represent client in driving ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new idea’s, customer needs, pain paints and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, industry, and market trend analysis. 
• Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value.
• Validate and present the business case to ensure the team prioritizes the right features.
• Serve as a voice of the customer, understanding the customer needs and aligns with the cross functional team
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs and quantifiable business outcomes.
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks to design and enable solutions or digital transformation initiatives that enhance business value delivery and responsiveness for our clients
• Collaborate with product managers, solution managers and cross functional team members to ensure all teams are marching towards the same program increment (PI) objectives.
• Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers.
• Keep pace with the market trends and represent client on maintain competitive advantage by continuously learning about the changes in business.
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams and vendors in a way that earns the respect of team members across their diverse backgrounds: strategy, experience, engineering, and analytics. Develop influence without authority.
• Inspire, lead, and mentor a high-performing teams to continually drive improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of professional experience
• Mastery in techniques and lean agile methodologies that maximize flow of value and are deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles, with an ability to extend that understanding throughout the organization.
• Proven success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience and enterprise solutions and services from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality.
• Expertise in working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services to design and build solutions that deliver valuable outcomes.
• Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles.
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders.
• Practices lean agile and design thinking principles, led/facilitated workshops to cultivate the ideation.
• Ability to define KPIs and forecasts with success leveraging data to make decisions about product features.
• Proven track record of working with clients/stakeholders and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of customer value.
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
• Strong influencer in continuous learning and innovation culture.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.