Product Owner

Since 1929, J&J Gaming has been a leader in Gaming and Amusements and a trusted partner. Today, our focus remains steadfast: to provide world-class service to help businesses succeed. Our customers and our team members have been, and will always be, #1 priority. We are looking to expand our workforce with team-oriented individuals with a positive mindset. expand our workforce with team-oriented individuals with a positive mindset. We provide eligible employees with a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan.

Job Summary

The Product Owner is responsible for managing multiple software products. The ideal candidate is an enabler to digital transformation, driving new features, maintaining, and prioritizing the backlog of features to each software platform, gathering user/business requirements and business modeling, and possess strong analytical skills.

To ensure success as a Product Owner, you should possess extensive experience with software systems and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Product Owner’s ensure that their expertise translates into optimized business operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct regular meetings with users to maintain backlog of features and changes to the software.
• Prioritize backlog of features for planning
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria for software changes.
• Conduct interviews, surveys, and observations for gathering requirements
• Perform use-case analyses.
• Act as subject matter expert for multiple information technology systems.
• Create and/or upload training manuals, policies, and procedures.
• Manage projects and implementations, including roll out plan, developing and owning training.
• Regularly assessing user experience to identify ongoing improvements and training needs.
• Partnership with other stakeholders to define what data resides in each system and how the systems connect.
• Ensure optimal performance of systems and products.
• Central point of contact for all change requests and system alterations.
• Generate detailed process maps for business workflows.
• Work with IT to manage project implementation and back-end integration.
• Light system administration responsibilities regarding user administration.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

B.S. in Management Information Systems or similar field.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 3 years’ prior experience as a business systems analyst; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong organizational, project and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Solid team player with excellent interpersonal skills who possesses the ability to communicate effectively with peers, managers, and across departments.
• Extensive experience in the administration and maintenance of systems.
• Experience in performing system upgrades and ensuring successful integration.
• Proficiency in creating system profiles, allocating roles, and managing access.
• Proven ability to develop and lead training sessions.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment

This job generally operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. The noise level in the work environment is low.

Physical Demands

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands or arms.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.

Travel

Travel not required.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Starting Range:

90K - 95K / annually