Jira Product Owner
MathWorks
Jira Product Owner
- Job: 36454-MMCC
- Team: Information Technology
- Location: US-MA-Natick
- Salary Range: $105,100 - $162,900
Job Summary
We are seeking a Jira Product Owner to lead the strategic direction and governance of our Jira platform. This role will play a critical part in our migration from Jira Data Center to Jira Cloud and will continue to drive platform optimization and stakeholder engagement post-migration to ensure Jira delivers maximum business value.
Responsibilities
- Lead Jira Cloud migration effort
- Collaborate with the program manager, consultant, and development team to support migration activities and validate configurations.
- Communicate with stakeholders and ensure alignment with business needs
- Create and execute Jira roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders, development teams, and Atlassian to develop product roadmap. Communicate roadmap progress and updates as business needs evolve
- Regularly engage with users. Write stories, collect and prioritize feedback, and manage expectations
- Manage backlog health, plan sprints, lead sprint reviews, refinement and retrospectives
- Vendor management
- Engage Atlassian frequently and advocate for roadmap inclusions and bring the latest features/direction to MathWorks
- Network with Jira community, leverage these relationships to solve problems
- Act as primary liaison to add-on vendors and facilitate contract renewals
- Configuration & Support
- Configure Jira projects, workflows, transitions, screens, etc…
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting and support for end user community
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or equivalent experience) is required.
- Proficiency with JIRA
Additional Qualifications
- Experience managing large-scale Jira environments (5,000+ users).
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and actionable backlog items.
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities
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