Technical Product Owner
Liquibase delivers world-class enterprise solutions that automate and streamline the DevOps database change process. These solutions leverage the industry's open-source leader with over 100 million downloads. At Liquibase, you can expect to revel in high growth across the board — in the number of customers we support, in the experiments we run, in the scope and complexity of our technical projects, and the list goes on.
Liquibase is hiring an Agile Product Owner to enhance our database change management product. Someone in this role will use their knowledge of the market and top-notch communication skills to represent customer, business interests and the market in the product development lifecycle. They will also work with Customer Success to ensure an intense focus on the needs of our customers. They are excited to work alongside developers to build, improve, and deliver significant product enhancements that solve challenging problems in the database DevOps & CI/CD space. Furthermore, they will influence the product strategy and roadmap by collaborating with our Product Manager.
What you'll do:
- Own the near-term technical product roadmap for our Database DevOps platform, including setting milestones and prioritizing deliverables
- Define detailed technical product requirements based on customer and business requirements
- Manage detailed planning and delivery of features, including prioritizing and grooming the backlog
- Assist Engineering in managing the backlog of technical debt
- Coordinate with the Customer Success team on customer reported issues and feature requests
- Engage customers to better understand their needs and requests so you can translate them into actionable product plans for Engineering
- Be the day-to-day point of contact of Product Management for Engineering
- Work with the Engineering, Design, Documentation, and Customer Success teams to create complete and polished product offerings
- Work with the Sales, Product Marketing, and Customer Success teams to plan product launches and provide the materials necessary to educate other departments on product enhancements, their value, and their use
Your background and skill set:
- BS or BA plus experience in technical field
- 5+ years as a technical product owner for a technical audience including automation solutions, data solutions, or development/operations products
- A strong understanding of database technology, automation, CI/CD, and DevOps
- Extensive experience writing & refining technical requirements to produce predictable product outcomes on an agile scrum team
- An incredible talent for cross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:
- Experience with JIRA & Confluence
- Experience with database applications as a DBA or Developer
- Certified Scrum Product Owner or similar certification
- Active participation in an open source project
- Agile certifications preferred
Perks of life at Liquibase:
- Remote First culture, potential for company-wide in-person gatherings
- Home office allowance for remote workers
- Meaningful equity (US only)
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits - country dependent
- Generous paid time off and paid holidays
- 401K matching (US only)
- No punks, no jerks culture
- Growth opportunities and ability to move up within the company
We take pride in:
- A transparent and collaborative team environment. We value multiple perspectives and fresh thinking.
- Our entrepreneurial culture. We provide every employee the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
- Providing the opportunity to work with new technologies and learn from experienced professionals.
- How organizations, large and small, use DevOps to drive developer agility and accelerate software delivery.
Company Overview - We are Liquibase
A career at Liquibase means joining a quickly growing company on the front lines of the DevOps space. Our vision is to be the easiest, safest, and most powerful community-led database change management solution. As companies of all sizes continue to adopt an agile methodology and DevOps practices, there is a growing realization that the database needs to be considered as part of this innovation process.
At Liquibase, we foster a culture rooted in the open-source values of freedom, choice, transparency, and meritocracy. These are not just fashion labels here, but sincere convictions, and you’ll see that reflected in the way we operate daily. We’re caffeinated, collaborative & confident experts, eager to solve the most challenging database CI/CD problems for our customers.
Want to help the software world move faster? You’ve found the right place.
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