Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us! Job Description: The Product Owner (PO) is an individual who has 5+ years of relevant experience working in the capacity of a Business Analyst, Scrum team member, or other IT related role. This individual should have spent 2 of those 5 years working directly as a Business Analyst or Product Owner. It is expected that an PO has a solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and understands how to translate business wants and needs into technical specifications for development team members to understand (i.e. User Stories, Features, Acceptance Criteria, Etc.). In addition, the PO should have excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders. In their personal growth, the PO should have their Product Owner certification (i.e. CSPO, PSPO). Responsibilities: Working with stakeholders to align the product vision and roadmap with the business's strategic goals. Working closely with stakeholders to identify features and/or enhancements that would add the highest value to your product. Managing the product backlog, ensuring items are relevant, prioritized, and ordered. Managing releases to Production and communicating upcoming changes to stakeholders and users to coordinate change management activities, training, etc. Collaborating with Cloud Delivery, Compliance, Support, and other related development teams to create a delivery plan and roadmap based on dependencies, etc. Ensuring your team's backlog health meets the standards the team has agreed upon. Collaborating between stakeholders and the development team to create well thought out Product Goals. Collaborating with your development team by articulating the business's wants and needs, so that they, in turn, can create well thought out backlog items that will help them achieve those goals in an iterative solution. Managing Stakeholder expectations and proactively communicating changes, tradeoffs, and updates to the roadmap. Gathering feedback on completed items and using that feedback to update and maintain the product backlog and determine when items are ready to be released. Determining and Analyzing metrics to measurestakeholder satisfaction and value deliveredafter a feature is released. Cultivating an inclusive work environment, allowing everyone to freely speak their mind and collaborate on the work to be done. Acting as the voice of your customers/users. Leading your development team in a professional manner, being their advocate, protecting their time, and giving them opportunities to shine. Encouraging innovation amongst your team. Skills: Communication - Communicates with the wider business, including changes affecting the work of others. Helps teams around you communicate better. Objectivity & Adaptability - Leads others in looking for ways to better serve business or customer needs, even outside your own discipline. Willing to lead mundane but important tasks and help whole teams to move on their goals through simplifying and breaking down problems. Empathy & Humility - Trusted by peers and your team. Can take any problem team and help them drive in the same direction. Growth Mindset - Not happy unless outside comfort zone. Com