Product Owner

Company Mission - Our mission is to help secure as many companies as possible by using the best way of doing so, penetration testing. Sprocket Security prioritizes offensive security for enterprises, empowering them to build robust defence strategies based on individual business risk. 

How - At Sprocket Security, we've built an expert-driven Continuous Penetration Testing platform that blends cutting-edge automated and manual testing methods. 

Your Mission – As a Product Owner you will contribute to our product vision, strategy and own execution for products within Sprocket Security. You will increase delivery predictability and release quality while enabling more proactive product strategy. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our product offerings, ensuring that our roadmap aligns with our customers’ needs both internally and externally, and delivering solutions on time and above expectations. 

Responsibilities:   

• Listen to the market, collect, analyse and validate ideas for future releases, or products. 
• Responsible for assigned products “Product Life Cycle”.  The Product Manager will manage releases to Market and manages the continuous process of development and ongoing enhancements to their assigned product suites.
• Define, prioritize, and clarify user stories, working with other stakeholders to understand use cases, features, business & technical domain rules and overall product goals.
• Consistently produces high-quality, clear and testable requirements that engineering and QA can execute without repeated clarification.
• Support market research and customer feedback analysis to inform product enhancements and new feature development.
• Prioritize work based on business goals, customer needs, and delivery impact with guidance from senior product leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, internal customers (pen testers), UI/UX, and other cross team communication to drive decisions on engineering based on vision and roadmap, to bring products to market successfully. 
• Work with development teams to continuously improve product ownership and other processes.
• lead cross-functional meetings (refinement, planning, incident review, User Acceptance Testing) so that everyone participates, decisions are made, and outcomes are documented.
• Maintain the functional quality of the work being delivered by setting and evaluating expectations and acceptance criteria.
• Draft and distribute internal and customer-facing release notes, and proactively communicate release scope, timing, and key updates to Marketing and other relevant stakeholder teams.
• Track and report on agreed success metrics post-release, with support from the product leadership.
• Ensure that technical focused user stories are created following team process for requirements, and collaborate with development, and SMEs to ensure accuracy and feasibility. 
• Provide guidance on product development methodologies, best practices, and industry trends.
• Conduct discovery to the identify market opportunities, customer needs, and competitive landscapes to inform product roadmaps. 

Qualifications: 
Minimum: 

• Fundamental understanding of SaaS business.
• Strong multi-tasking skills and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Has independently driven delivery flow (intake → backlog → refinement → sprint → QA → release) in a fast-moving product org.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.
• Experience using Aha!/Jira/Trello.
• Experience using Notion/Confluence.
• Knowledge of agile development practices (especially Scrum) methodology and tools.
• Experience with writing user stories, grooming product backlogs
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, or equivalent working experience.
• Coordinating/ prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever-changing environment.
• Experience authoring Technical User Stories / Use Cases .

Preferred:  

• Product Owner / Management experience within Cybersecurity.
• Experience working in a start-up environment. 

Benefits: 

• Unlimited and mandatory PTO for healthy work/life balance.
• Company matched 401k (immediate eligibility, no one should have to wait to start saving).
• 75% company contribution for health insurance for employees and 50% for dependants.
• 100% company contribution for dental and vision.
• Work whatever schedule works best for you. We care about results, not 9-5.
• Hardware and tools of your choice
• Support for your career development with paid training, conferences, certifications, etc. 

Location: Currently residing or able to relocate to Madison, WI  

Ready to Trailblaze the Cybersecurity Frontier? If you're passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make an impact in the industry, we want you on our team. Apply now at Sprocket Security and join the revolution of safeguarding businesses from cyber threats!