Staff Product Owner

Company: Dexcom Inc.
Location: San Diego
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Dexcom, Inc. empowers people to take control of diabetes through innovative-- continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) -- systems. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has emerged as a leader of diabetes care technology. By listening to the needs of users, caregivers, and providers, Dexcom simplifies and improves diabetes management around the world. Summary: The --Staff Product Owner --collaborates with the Data Platforms technical leaders and Project Managers to lead the build-out of Dexcom's next-generation data platforms and productized data services which support customer-facing products, partner ecosystems, and analytics.--In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that the right platform features are built through gathering and prioritizing platform requirements with input from the platform customers - i.e., downstream consumers of data services.-- You will work closely with the development team to communicate platform features, priorities, and requirements. This is a high visibility, hands-on position that requires commitment, ownership, flexibility, careful planning, and attention to details. Responsibilities:

• Excel at managing multiple product components and workstreams simultaneously
• Competency with various user story, backlog, and roadmap estimation techniques to ensure externally committed dates are met
• You must demonstrate the ability to lead requirements and design definition of complex and often ambiguous technical components
• You will influence technical teams to execute your product backlog as an individual contributor where individuals are not directly accountable to you
• Be comfortable managing conflicting priorities, scope changes, and stakeholder expectations
• Be familiar with and quickly conduct impact/tradeoff analysis when needed in response to changing priorities
• Contribute to the platform strategy and roadmap definition in collaboration with others on the team ensuring alignment of company objectives, product vision and customer feedback
• Responsible for platform and services definition: necessary features and functionality and the release criteria (product requirements document)
• Be the go-to source of knowledge for all components of the end-to-end platform
• Effectively communicate the platform vision and requirements to the development team
• Engage frequently with the development team: facilitate discussions, provide clarification, provide input on requirement acceptance and refinement, testing and validation, contribute to design activities and decisions
• Interface with the engineering leadership to identify requirements and convert them into executable stories for software development using the Agile method
• Make trade-off decisions between possible and desirable, which requires a good sense of what is technically feasible
• Review detailed technical requirements and specifications documentation to ensure that the product being built aligns with the product vision
• Evaluate competitors and the market for capability-oriented and emerging development and technology trends
• Coordinate go-to-market planning as appropriate for any launches impacting end-customers and partners
• You will lead product strategy and roadmap for account management components central to Dexcom apps and services
• You will define complex features that are critical to cross functional teams and our customers
• Experiencing managing product execution using a variety of coexisting methodologies (ie, Agile, Waterfall) is preferred - experience scaling agile is a plus
• Familiarity with IAM, account management systems, UX/CX best practices or willingness to learn is necessary
• Firm understanding of data privacy, data governance, cybersecurity - including but not limited to GDPR, CCPA will be needed to develop critical backlog components-- Qualifications:
  • Experience in building customer facing websites and native applications ( iOS and Android) applications that are used by millions of users.
  • Must be familiar with API technical terminology areas such as REST APIs, GraphQL, request/responses, METHODS, endpoints
  • Ability to formulate and conduct primary and secondary research to identify and prioritize
  • Passionate about Identity and Access Management with background in OAuth 2.0, OpenID connect, SAML, Single Sign On and API authorization/access management
  • Prior experience in areas like password management, encryption, two factor authentication, Biometrics and customer authentication
  • Competent with offerings in the "Identity as a Service" space from players like Okta, Auth0 or Google Firebase Authentication--
  • Data platforms or database software product management experience preferred
  • Demonstrated team player with ability to coordinate multiple projects in a fast paced and deadline driven environment
  • Problem solver with the ability to effectively communicate technical solutions
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak effectively to clients and internal teams
  • Comfortable leading meetings and writing documents for senior leadership and stakeholders
  • Ability to work effectively in a coordinating role across multiple disciplines, a strong, open and collaborative work style, a customer-service orientation with the ability to translate business goals into technical requirements
  • Ability to gain buy-in as needed Experience and Education Requirements:
    • Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline, and a minimum of 8-12 years related experience or Master's degree and 5-7 years equivalent industry experience or a PhD and 2-4 years of experience. Functional Description:-- Functions as a key stakeholder of a project and represents the customer to the development team. Responsible to have a vision of what he or she wishes to build, and convey the vision to the scrum team in order to successfully start an agile software development project. Oversees the product backlog, which is a prioritized features list for the product. Responsible for creating the list of backlog items and prioritizing them based on the overall strategy and business objectives. Responsible for bridging the gap between customer needs and delivery of the tangible product features, by translating customer language into technical details the developers can interpret to initiate development. Prioritizes the product backlog during the sprint planning meeting, selects the amount of work to be done during each sprint, and how many sprints will be required. Works with the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer's view of how they're implementing a product feature. Seen as an expert at understanding and anticipating the client's needs to more effectively manage the development process. An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Talent Acquisition at--talentacquisition@dexcom.com .-- To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Dexcom. Only authorized--staffing and recruiting agencies may use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes on specific requisitions.--Dexcom does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to the Talent Acquisition team,--Dexcom employees or any other company location. Dexcom is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications. Get Matched Upload your resume and see jobs that match your skills and experience Staff Product Owner - IT Global Analytics Information Technology Sr Staff Technical Program Manager Program Management Data Scientist 2 - Customer Experience Operations Staff Technical Program Manager Operations Operations Staff Technical Program Manager Operations Operations Staff Technical Program Manager Operations Sr Technical Project Manager Program Management Recommended Videos for you Dexcom - Learn More About Us - YouTube Working at Dexcom - Dexcom Careers - YouTube What does it mean to be a Dexcom Warrior? - YouTube Why Apple And Google Are Working On Diabetes Tech - YouTube Warrior Mashup video - YouTube Dexcom Warrior & Olympic Skier Kris Freeman Shares his Personal Diabetes Story - YouTube Dexcom empowers people to take control of diabetes. We focus on enabling better outcomes for patients, caregivers and clinicians by delivering solutions that are best in class-defined as being dependable, simple and essential to taking control of diabetes. We are committed to revolutionizing diabetes care by seeking out and solving the needs of our employees, collaborators and community. Listen Comprehend the needs of people affected by diabetes. Serve with integrity Act in the best interest of our community. Think big Use technology to revolutionize diabetes care. Inspire confidence within our community and in one another. Jordan Morris The Dexcom Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) System helps Jordan eliminate surprise highs or lows when he's about to go out on the field.

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