Job Description

Company Overview
Since 1992, Unified Compliance has developed ground-breaking tools to support IT (Information Technology) best practices with a special focus on regulatory compliance, metrics, systems continuity, and governance. Developed in 2005, the Common Controls Hub, the SaaS portal built on to the Unified Compliance Framework, is Unified Compliance\xe2\x80\x99s flagship product. The UCF\xe2\x80\x99s content and methodology is the direct result of our deep understanding of IT regulations and standards as well as decades of experience consulting for clients, publications, and vendors in the mission-critical IT arena.\xc2\xae Unified Compliance has cornered the market with the largest, broadest compliance methodologies in the world, including methodologies for solid research, cross referencing, glossary, fact checking, and editorial to maintain the high standards enjoyed by the vendors and end users of the Unified Compliance Framework.


Role Overview
The Product Owner is an integral part of the product management team with direct responsibility for the success of Unified Compliance\xe2\x80\x99s products. The Product Owner acts as the voice of the customer to help identify opportunities to evolve Unified Compliance\xe2\x80\x99s product offerings solving real-world challenges, increasing customer satisfaction, and driving revenue growth. The Product Owner works cross-functionally across product design, engineering, product marketing, sales, and customer success, bringing differentiable products to market. The product owner collaborates closely with product leadership on feature prioritization and execution of the product roadmap.


Position Responsibilities

• • • Gather, refine, organize, and prioritize product ideas and bug fixes to identify the most impactful feature set for customer adoption and customer satisfaction
  • • Build user story maps, swim lane diagrams, and other documents to help communicate product requirements and direction
  • • Create epics and stories in Aha! and Jira providing business rationale, context, and expected results to ensure the engineering and product teams are aligned on the \xe2\x80\x9cwhat\xe2\x80\x9d and the \xe2\x80\x9cwhy\xe2\x80\x9d

• • • Continually prepare, groom, and refine the product backlog for sprint planning sessions
  • • Collaborate with product leadership, designers, engineers, and architects on solution designs
  • • Own the complete process of defining product requirements, collaborating with engineering, communicating the benefits to customer facing teams, and following up on customer adoption
  • • Contribute to and improve the ever-evolving product team\xe2\x80\x99s tools, methodologies, and processes raising visibility of product direction and increasing efficiencies in the overall software development lifecycle
  • • Partner with customer success and product marketing on measuring and growing feature adoption

• • • Conduct product enablement for sales, marketing, and support teams by conducting product demonstrations and release presentations highlighting use cases and benefits
  • • Meet with key customers and partners to help identify and document unmet needs and additional market opportunities

Ideal Qualifications:

• • • At least 4 years of experience as a product owner within a B2B SaaS environment
  • • Solid understanding of the complete product lifecycle and software development
  • • In-depth understanding of agile methodologies and ability to learn and adjust as required
  • • Ability to create a cohesive product journey
  • • Skilled in software tools to create low-fidelity wireframes, user story maps, process diagrams, and product requirements

• • • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • • Ability to problem-solve and multi-task
  • • Preferred background or experience in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
  • • Self-starter with an ability to work both independently and within groups

Physical Requirements:

• • • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
  • • Prolonged periods of using computer keyboard, mouse
  • • Prolonged exposure to computer monitors and lighting

Unified Compliance is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Unified Compliance are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. Unified Compliance adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.


Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Remote
Salary: $85,000 - $105,000
Supplemental pay types:

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  Merit Based Bonus

Benefits:

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  401(k)
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  Company sponsored Health, Dental and Vision

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  Paid flexible time-off
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  Paid Holidays
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  Company-Paid Life Insurance, Short-term and Long-term Disability