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Current, has completed the acquisition of Hubbell® Incorporated’s commercial and industrial (C&I) lighting business, creating a premier end-to-end lighting solutions business. The combined new business will be branded as Current. This brings together two iconic businesses with deep innovation heritage, strong brands and application expertise and allows Current to be strategically positioned to now focus all investments into lighting and controls solutions. We have an enhanced distribution footprint and digital tools to service customer needs more easily, quickly and efficiently, and strong new product pipelines and shared patented technologies to deliver added value to customers. Primary office locations are Cleveland, OH and Greenville, SC, with centers of expertise locations in Austin, TX, Rolling Meadows, IL and Quebec, Canada. Manufacturing operations reside in Hendersonville, NC, Pittsburgh, PA, Plympton, MA, Christiansburg, VA, Acuna, MX and Tijuana, MX.

Job Description

Current is seeking a Product Owner to join our progressive and dynamic fast-paced enterprise and mobile applications team. These are exciting times - our industry and user expectations are changing and so are we! We are developing the next generation of world class Internet of Things (IoT) connected lighting and building automation controls and applications. This is a hands-on product owner/business analyst role that will directly contribute to the development of requirements in the form of epics and user stories of our cutting edge cloud-connected IoT applications and offerings with the latest tools. You will be part of our fast-growing innovative technology design center located in Round Rock, TX, a hi-tech hub north of Austin. We will also entertain candidates close to our Greenville, SC and Beachwood, OH offices.

We are looking for a talented and creative problem solver. You will be involved in the complete software development life cycle, seeing your epics and user stories into a finished product in a hybrid agile environment. This will require a high degree of collaboration between highly-talented, cross-functional and geographically-dispersed development teams. You will work closely with industry-best product management team, developers and other design team members to present business and customer needs and help develop end-to-end solutions.

Essential Functions

• Conduct voice of customers studies to understand and document user work flows and use cases.
• Develop Epics and detailed user stories and work closely with development team members to help develop end to end enterprise lighting solutions
• Be the bridge between development team members and the end customers, users and other stake holders
• Develop marketing collaterals like product specs, training documentation, user manual, user acceptance tests (UAT), etc.
• Assist with the preparation of wireframes and lead focus groups to validate concepts
• Attend all scrum meetings including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review to answer all requirement questions and provide feedback on development artifacts and applications.
• Perform UAT and support field trials.

Position Criteria

• A demonstrated ability to describe requirements to members of the development and QA teams and answer questions
• Solid decision-making skills and the ability to articulate your reasoning while taking the bigger product picture into consideration
• Expert ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex customer use cases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and to follow directions
• Ability to articulate and promote software development best-practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent in related field
• 2 or more years of experience in doing voice of customer studies in the lighting industry
• 3 or more years of experience in writing epics and detailed user stories in Jira, Azure DevOps or some other similar tools
• 2 or more years of experience in performing UAT
• 2 or more years of experience in developing marketing collateral

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in controls and device automation industry
• Experience in the lighting or building automation industry
• Experience working with geographically-dispersed teams
• Experience with New Product commercialization

Compensation

The position has a compensation package inclusive of base, bonus (if eligible), benefits, 401k contribution, time off, recognition awards and more. This salary range is $75-90,000.

Benefits and Perks

The Highlights:

All around competitive culture where together we strive to:

• Approach each day with a tenacious curiosity
• Communicate openly and honestly- internally and externally
• Work hard, take risks, fail fast…learn and move on
• Embrace diversity and welcome opposing thoughts
• Empower and develop each other
• We have an open and inclusive culture where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:
  • Quarterly company all employee meetings
  • Management and Leadership development
  • Initiatives and special projects with executive leadership exposure
  • Access to top-notch learning courses through LinkedIn Learning
  • Regular manager check-ins to drive performance and career growth

Our more standard benefits

• Full-time exempt roles have a Permissive Time Off Policy, giving you flexibility to rest, relax and recharge away from work
• Paid Company Holidays
• A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match
• Flexible Spending Account options for pre-tax employee allocations