Are you looking to grow your career as an IT Product Owner in the Denver area, working with a company that constantly disrupts their industry? Our team of product owners get to deliver creative solutions across all of our lines of business: DISH TV, Sling TV, OnTech, and our new Wireless venture! We’re looking for talented, driven, passionate product owners to join the Dish family and drive our business forward through delivering world class software to our customers, partners, and employees.

We’re looking for you…are you looking for us? If so, keep reading!

As a Product Owner on the team you will...

• Lead a cross functional team to ensure the team delivers products that meet business requirements/needs and delivers business and operational value to customers
• Ensure product roadmap and vision are communicated to the development team
• Break down and prioritize delivery of products and features by developing and maintaining the product backlog, user stories, and cross-product dependencies
• Elicit, identify, document, and refine requirements from business problems to detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that may include technical requirements
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders, developers, QA, and other team members to analyze information and functional requirements, advocate the development process through to implementation, and ensure the delivered product meets business needs
• Perform acceptance testing for user stories and features
• Collaborate with stakeholders/developers/QA during product development through implementation
• Manage stakeholder needs & requests while balancing product roadmap priorities
• Facilitate iteration planning sessions, daily team stand-ups, grooming sessions, and retros
• Track and report on team work completed, capacity, backlog, velocity, etc.
• Forecast product/feature delivery timelines
• Use metrics and feedback to improve team and organization processes, best practices, performance, and delivery
• Assist with deployments and production support issues

We’re looking for candidates with the following...

• BA/BS in a technical or business discipline (information systems, engineering, computer science, finance, business administration, or accounting)
• 2-4 years of Product Owner, Product Manager, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Project Manager or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent organizational, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills
• Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional resources and work well in a distributed environment
• Demonstrated understanding of and experience using Agile processes and methodologies
• Ability to plan for future work while maintaining the current delivery with rapidly changing priorities
• Rally / CA Agile Central experience a plus
• Technical proficiency in APIs, Java or JavaScript, or other programming languages a plus