Job Description

OBJECTIVE

As the Product Owner, you will be responsible for driving the day-to-day execution of our supply chain software platform. Your primary role will be to translate product strategy into detailed requirements, ensuring development teams have clear direction and priorities. You will act as the key liaison between product management and engineering, ensuring work is delivered efficiently, meets business needs, and provides value to end users. You will play a critical role in maintaining backlog health, supporting agile processes, and ensuring high-quality delivery.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:

BACKLOG OWNERSHIP & REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT

• Own and maintain the product backlog for VIZIV, ensuring all items are clearly defined, prioritized, and actionable.
• Translate product strategy, features, and business needs into detailed Epics, User Stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Continuously refine and prioritize backlog items based on business value, stakeholder input, and technical dependencies.
• Ensure requirements are well understood by development teams through clear documentation and ongoing communication.
• Partner with stakeholders to gather, clarify, and validate requirements before development begins.
• Review and approve completed work to ensure it meets defined acceptance criteria and business expectations.

AGILE DELIVERY & TEAM SUPPORT

• Act as the primary point of contact for the development team, providing guidance, clarification, and quick decision-making.
• Support sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to ensure smooth agile execution.
• Work closely with engineering to break down work into manageable increments that align with sprint goals.
• Identify and remove blockers or escalate issues to ensure continuous progress.
• Ensure alignment between sprint deliverables and overall product priorities set by Product Management.
• Monitor progress and adjust priorities as needed to meet delivery timelines and changing business needs.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and shared understanding.
• Support a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.

QUALITY, VALIDATION & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Mentor and guide product team members, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and user-centric team culture.
• validate that delivered features meet business requirements and provide intended value to users.
• Coordinate and support testing efforts, including UAT, to ensure readiness for release
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within workflows, tools, and team collaboration. 
• Gather feedback from users and stakeholders to refine requirements and improve future iterations.
• Ensure releases are well-documented and communicated to stakeholders.
• Support post-release monitoring and quickly address any issues or enhancements needed.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. 
• The employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; on occasion may need to climb or balance; and stoop, or kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• The noise level in the work environment and job sites is usually low, applicable to a business office.

C-TPAT

Century is committed to the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. Century will take all the necessary steps to implement and enhance security throughout our global supply chain. All employees are required to immediately report any anomalies to the Century USA and Asia C-TPAT contacts.

The above is a description of the current essential functions and duties and responsibilities of your position. This document in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. At the Company’s discretion, these essential functions, duties and responsibilities may be modified in the future to meet the business needs of the Company.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” employment relationship.

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