Senior IT Product Owner

Department Summary

DISH is a Fortune 200 company that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service – Sling TV – that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.

Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.

We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve, to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Opportunity is here. We are DISH.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

High-level job responsibilities:

This role will collaborate cross-functionally with the PMO, the architecture team, Business Analysts, and other software application SMEs and teams at Dish to deliver API integration across BSS, OSS and 3rd party vendors. The ideal candidate is experienced in implementing modern cloud-based platforms and tools, has an entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication skills, and excellent critical thinking skills. In this role:

• Responsible for ensuring that the product’s vision is aligned with business goals.
• Responsible for gaining buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy regarding product functionality and process.
• Responsible for iteration planning and subsequently working with the development team to identify and breakdown the tasks required for the iterations while providing clear instructions and deliverables.
• Ability to manage, organize, communicate and track sprint and project releases.
• Responsible for projects’ success: on time, on budget, meeting team members’ expectation, and meeting projects’ goals.
• Consider the organization impact of decisions made regarding service interface and data modeling
• Provide on-the-job training in service for the product owners of other teams.

Day-to-day job responsibilities

• Coordinating with the Scrum Master to facilitate and/or participate in the necessary Scrum ceremonies, possibly including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective

• Act as the liaison between engineering teams and product stakeholders

• Evangelize your product vision and roadmap across to gather feedback and drive better cross-company transparency and alignment

• Decomposing product and service features into workable user stories

• Continually prioritizing and grooming product backlogs for cross-functional, full-stack integration teams. Liaison between requests for new functionality and development team.

• Coordinating cross-team delivery, managing dependencies, and defining best practices

• Sharing and evangelizing the work completed, product backlog, and Scrum team metrics.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

High-level qualifications:

Technical in API development and integration. Strong interpersonal and communication skills and working knowledge of enterprise solution architecture principles. Self-starter and ability to figure out a complicated environment.

Specific qualifications:

• 4+ years of enterprise product ownership experience
• 4+ years of enterprise experience in determining and documenting requirements
• 4+ years of enterprise software/API integration experience
• Technical knowledge of data models and data management
• Good knowledge of OpenAPI specifications
• Ability of performing troubleshooting assistance
• Must have experience working with offshore teams
• Wireless retail experience a big plus
• AWS or other Cloud experience a plus
• Apigee experience a plus
• Java, SpringBoot, Node.js development experience a plus

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Salary Range

Compensation: $91,800.00/Year
Compensation and Benefits

We also offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits.   

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check.