Product Owner (Foreign Trade)

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Owner to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading and driving the research and development efforts for QAD’s Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) solution. As a Product Owner, you will be a crucial link between the business stakeholders, R&D teams, and technical development teams, ensuring that our  Foreign-Trade Zone solutions are innovative, competitive, profitable, and meet the evolving needs of our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Vision: Work closely with Product Management to develop and maintain a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our Foreign-Trade Zone products. This includes understanding market trends, legislative landscape, client feedback, and technology advancements.

2. Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and prioritize product requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and client needs.  

3. R&D Alignment: Collaborate and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of product features and enhancements.

4. Feature Definition: Create detailed feature specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring a clear understanding of the desired outcomes for development teams.

5. Prioritization: Prioritize product features based on incremental revenue, strategic value, competitive differentiation, client impact, and technical feasibility.

6. Iteration Planning: Participate in Agile development processes, define sprint goals, and ensure the team's work aligns with the product roadmap.

7. Product Testing: Collaborate with quality assurance and testing teams to ensure product quality, and conduct user acceptance testing.

8. Market and Competitive Analysis: Continuously monitor the FTZ market and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for product improvement and innovation.  This may include Thomson Reuters, Descartes, MIC, E2Open, OCR-inc and others.  Digest FTZ intelligence from analysts, thoughtleaders, and competitors to be aware of new trends and technologies.

9. User Experience (UX): Work with UX/UI designers to create user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces, considering user needs and feedback.

10. Stakeholder Communication: Maintain open and transparent communication with stakeholders, ensuring that they are informed about the product's progress and any potential issues.

11. Product Launch: Plan and execute product launches, including go-to-market strategies, user training, and documentation.

12. Product Performance Tracking: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the product's success and make data-driven decisions for further improvements.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (e.g., Finance, Computer Science, Business, or Engineering).
• 3 - 7 years of related experience, preferably in a global enterprise software company that markets SaaS based global trade management products including Foreign-Trade Zone management and experience with the U.S. Customs’ Automated Broker Interface (ABI) system.
• The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the U.S.  Foreign-Trade Zone rules,  regulations and operating requirements, including all types of  related transactions and document types. .
• Understand the business value of adopting Foreign-Trade Zone software  including duty reduction and deferral.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset and ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Familiarity with technology and software development processes.
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills.

• Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work-life balance.
• Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
• Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
• An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level or hierarchy.
• Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

About QAD:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage.

QAD is committed to ensuring that every employee feels they work in an environment that values their contributions, respects their unique perspectives and provides opportunities for growth regardless of background. QAD’s DEI program is driving higher levels of diversity, equity and inclusion so that employees can bring their whole self to work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 

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