Product Owner
Description
As a Product Owner, you’ll partner with teams across the company to deliver new functionality and product improvements that enable our customers to live our brand promise: The solution you start with, the partner you scale with. If you share our passion for bringing customer’s streaming ambitions to life, are bold and results-focus, and enjoy solving technical problems collaboratively, we invite you to apply to join our fast-moving Product Management team.
What you’ll do:
- Translate the Wowza strategy and features into well-defined, implementable user stories with clear expectations and details needed for implementation by our top-notch development team.
- Prioritize the backlog with conviction, ensuring that the features customers value most get into their hands as soon as possible.
- Discuss the details with the engineers doing the implementation. Find better ways to deliver, faster, and with future flexibility in mind.
- Own the hard decisions and make tradeoffs. Not everything can be a top priority.
- Work iteratively, release frequently, and incorporate what you’ve learned back into the product.
- Validate your assumptions, your features, and your priority with customers. They define a job well done.
- Work proactively to predict and minimize potential issues before they arise.
- Keep the rest of Wowza informed. Share the good news and the bad news before they turn into surprises.
- Support Sales, Customer Success, Product Content, and Support as the subject matter expert for the product(s) you own.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Content, Marketing, Support, and Sales on the prioritization, launch, and support of new product enhancements.
About You:
- 1-3 years in a Product Ownership/Product Management position, specifically with technical products.
- Experience applying Agile development practices, collaborating with software development teams to iteratively deliver continuously improving solutions to the market.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience with streaming video and/or B2B SaaS solutions preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, and verbal/written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships across organizational teams in a dynamic environment.
Benefits
Salary: $90,000-$110,000
- Bonus Eligible
The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of our salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on a range of factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. The salary is one component of our total compensation package for employees.
Wowza offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance available 1st day of employment
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401(k) with strong company match
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
- Voluntary Life Insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Parental Leave
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Who We Are:
Wowza Media Systems is a Colorado-based, globally-known video streaming software solutions leader. Wowza's software enables its customers to deliver high-fidelity video streams from any source to any destination reliably at a large scale and with low latency. Tens of thousands of customers implement Wowza's solutions in more than 100 countries across education, healthcare, enterprise, gaming, fitness, auction, e-commerce, and government applications. Founded nearly fifteen years ago, Wowza is backed by private equity firm Clearhaven Partners.
Why Work for Wowza:
Join a fast-paced, private equity-backed Colorado software company at the intersection of mission-critical video streaming applications. Wowza has a long-standing reputation for technical prowess and consistent innovation and has been a consistently growing company. In addition, Wowza's team works to connect the larger community with our passion for tech. From live-streaming graduation ceremonies for local schools to helping parents monitor their children in the NICU, employees can cultivate the same creative energy that first brought the company to life. Our employees are encouraged to take ownership of their roles, and coworkers are happy to help one another along their video journey. We have a brand-new company headquarters office and remote employees across the US and around the globe. Our Denver-area employees work in a flexible-hybrid environment, allowing flexibility and work-life balance tailored to each Wowzan.