Associate Product Owner Intern (full-time 3-month internship) Job at Acres.com Career, Fayetteville, AR

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  • Acres.com Career
  • Fayetteville, AR

Job Description

About This Role

Acres is hiring an Associate Product Owner Intern based in Northwest Arkansas to join the growing software development teams which support our Acres platform. This position presents the opportunity to help build and enhance some of our most important externally facing products. An ideal candidate will be comfortable ramping up quickly so that they can help in developing and communicating thorough requirements for various initiatives.

The Associate Product Owner Intern will serve as a product and feature-specific expert when it comes to tactical feature functionality. They will be responsible for feature decomposition as well as tactical requirement gathering and documentation (user story creation). They will regularly interact with internal and external stakeholders. They will be comfortable and confident speakers who can communicate with users on a regular basis.

The Associate Product Owner Intern will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we are delivering maximum value. They will be responsible for creating well-written, thorough user stories which our software development squads will leverage to deliver new features. Hiring the right people for these roles is important to our team because they will be integral to the creation and continuous improvement of our products. As at any growing company, you can expect many other tasks and responsibilities to be assigned as well as growth opportunities to be seized.

This is a full-time (40 hours/week) 3-month internship that pays $15 per hour. 

Core Responsibilities

  • Communicate regularly with internal and external stakeholders to optimize business value from our product(s)
  • Work closely with the VP of Product and Data Science and Senior Product Owner to ensure feature requirements are in line with product strategy
  • Work with Product, UX, and across teams to facilitate user research using a variety of research strategies.
  • Assist with managing the product backlog and ensure it is prioritized to support the product strategy 
  • Decompose epics and features into clearly written user stories containing acceptance criteria that are actionable and of business value
  • Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies
  • Create visual aids to demonstrate requirements to our development squads, e.g. process flows, mind maps, etc.
  • Work one on one with UX resources to ensure workflow designs meet expectations
  • Measure feature usage post-release to make recommendations to our business partners concerning enhancement, modification, or retirement of features
  • Serve as a liaison between product and development teams, and be available to answer questions or concerns that arise during development 

Key Competencies/Requirements

  • Experience in creating documentation which breaks down complex requirements into easier-to-understand features: (e.g. Visio, Miro, Lucid Charts, etc.)
  • Effective communication skills
  • Openness to learning and sharing knowledge
  • Extremely well organized
  • Possess a keen eye for detail
  • Local to Fayetteville Arkansas or willing to relocate  

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Undergraduate degree in product management, computer science, or related field
  • Experience working in Agile project management tools like Azure Dev Ops, Jira, ZenHub, etc.
  • Experience in the tech industry
  • Experience working with a Product team as well as UX Design
  • Experience with user research

Legal authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment at Acres. 

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Local area, Relocation,

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