Product Owner Ii - Billing

Description

NMI is looking for a Product Owner II to join our Billing product engineering team. The Billing team is responsible for the development of a suite of billing micro services serving the various needs of our member companies and global finance teams. This role will require the development of new systems, the maintenance of existing legacy systems, and the coordination of migration between the two.

As Product Owner, you will manage the execution of NMI’s strategy and roadmap, while facilitating backlog grooming, prioritization, triage and other development ceremonies. Our Product Owners also take an active role in product launches, ensuring internal stakeholders are trained on the latest product capabilities. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision and attention to detail, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time learning the product and understanding its users in order to make the best design decisions for our clients. A background in the development of accounting or billing systems is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Prioritize the product backlog and coordinate with stakeholders including the Product Manager, customer facing teams,
• Develop an understanding of the target market and user base; Uses this to guide product decisions
• Write detailed release notes and provides product training to internal teams
• Develop the voice of customer information through customer interviews.
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure new products and functionality work as expected
• Work with other Product Owners to ensure dependencies are prioritized appropriately across teams
• Partner with stakeholders to help define Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that delivers incremental value; Ensure MVP aligns with product vision and NMI’s strategic goals
• Develop epics and user stories for all new functionality, present user stories to product teams and ensure new functionality meets the acceptance criteria
• Ensure the conceptual and functional integrity of new features or components.
• Work with development team, Product Manager and other Product Owners to do release planning

Typical Experience

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and approaches problem solving, teamwork, and innovation with a positive attitude. This person has a very strong understanding of our customers, including the driving forces in payments technology and product evolution. Must possess strong coaching skills and the ability to motivate teams and individuals around a common vision of product development excellence.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with customers, business and technical team members across the organization
• Ability to take business requirements and translate them into detailed product specifications.
• At least 1-3 years of product owner experience or similar/equivalent.
• Ideal candidate has experience in Ecommerce, Retail and/or Payments technology. Payment technology experience preferred.

Benefits

• 10 Paid Holidays
• Extended Health Care/Emergency Travel Assistance
• 40 hours week with flexi-time
• Vacation, Personal Wellness and Sick time
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health and Dental Insurance
• Life, ADD, Short-term and Long-term Disability insurance
• Work Remotely
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward
• Casual dress
• Competitive salary and commission package
• Bonusly colleague reward scheme

Equal Opportunity

NMI is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or sexual identity, genetic information, citizen status (except those that do not have the legal right to be employed in the United States), disability, military service, service member, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Please be aware that all offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.

Please be aware that NMI does not operate a license for the sponsorship of those who are not already eligible to work within the US/Canada. Unfortunately, therefore we cannot process any application from individuals unable to provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to commence work in the US/Canada.

About Us

We enable our partners with choice, and challenge the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realizing it. We’re the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech startups. We’re creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what’s possible so they can think about what’s next. But we’re not just built for the tech savvy. We democratize the latest payments technology so that everyone can realize the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. We’re all about enabling more payments in more ways and more places.

We believe that having a diverse group of employees strengthens both our work and our workplace. We’re focused on making NMI more diverse and welcoming with initiatives like having a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion action group, diversity goals for hiring, anonymized resume screening, affinity groups such as our Women's network and LGBTQ+ Network, open forums for discussions on diversity and social justice, and measuring inclusion and belonging as part of our regular employee engagement surveys.