Who We Are
Studio Designer powers the business side of interior design firms. With intuitive, purpose-built tools, designers can capture and organize hundreds of project details, track time, manage orders and instantly access essential financial information in one centralized system. Over 20,000 designers rely on Studio Designer to do more of what they do best!
Join our team of designers, technologists, and customer success professionals as we create forward-thinking business software exclusively for interior designers. We uphold our values by fostering a collaborative and creative environment that embraces uniqueness and prioritizes the well-being of our team and customers alike!
The Role
The Product Owner will play a critical role in helping Studio Designer improve processes and develop strategies and documentation to enhance our platform and offerings. The Product Owner, in collaboration with stakeholders, will identify and execute high impact improvements that unlock new product opportunities and ensure the reliability, predictability, maintainability, and scalability of Studio Designer’s products.
What You’ll Do
- Own the process of translating customer and industry needs and wants into software tickets. Manage the ticket lifecycle from creation through the software team development utilization.
- Regularly translate strategy into tactical and tangible action items or tickets for the product or software development teams.
- Maintain team goals and visions, energizing and encouraging the team to deliver results.
- Collaborate closely with the product team, engineering, and other key stakeholders to gather and analyze product requirements to create, prioritize, and iteratively deliver the best business value.
- Translate customer needs into clear and actionable user stores with well-defined acceptance criteria.
- Create and define solutions for prioritized backlog items.
- Facilitate execution across the team by partnering with engineers, spotting, and addressing problems before they escalate, and unblocking progress when needed.
- Deliver feedback and metrics to applicable parties with testing and team recommendations.
- Set expectations for delivery of new functionality with applicable parties.
- Clearly deliver and define key product features or updates with responsible parties to deliver high quality software features.
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers and the impact of our product on their lives.
- Stay up to date on relevant industry trends and best practices and constantly exchange ideas.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, or comparable work experience.
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role in an agile software development environment.
- Experience implementing agile processes and methodologies.
- Experience working in a fast-paced SaaS organization is preferred.
- Understanding and working knowledge with data, UX design, and/or development.
- Have experience with our tools or similar (JIRA and Confluence).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to gather and interpret data to make informed decisions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Experience in market research, competitor analysis, and user feedback analysis.
- Knowledge of the interior design industry is a plus.
Our Offerings
- Remote first!
- States not included in remote options are: Hawaii, Mississippi, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Involuntary and Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance
- Voluntary Long-term Disability
- HSA with employer match
- Voluntary Pet Insurance
- Flexible paid time off, company-paid holidays, and parental leave
- 401(k) plan with employer match
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Studio Designer is an equal opportunity employer.
