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Product Owner

Baker Hughes

Baker Hughes

Product
Posted on Sep 25, 2024

Product Owner

Are you passionate about working in a product development environment?

Do you enjoy providing technical guidance?

Join our OFSE Digital Team!

Our Oilfield Services and Equipment business provides intelligent, connected technologies to monitor and control our energy extraction assets. Our Digital Team partners with business units and clients to develop software and technical innovation. We create improvements and efficiency through service delivery, remote operations, automation, and advanced analytics utilizing machine learning and AI.

Partner with the best

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for:

  • Working with cross-functional teams to deliver features and significant products
  • Creating a blueprint for the product's concept and features, owning the short-term roadmap for MVPs and monthly releases
  • Prioritizing continuously in accordance with the understanding and validation of customer problems and needs
  • Demonstrating expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity
  • Engaging frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions.
  • Owning and managing the backlog; continuously order and prioritize to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready
  • Monitoring and measuring each development stage using advanced metrics, understand product performance and make necessary improvements in the product
  • Collaborating with UX in design decisions, demonstrating deep understanding of technology stack and impact on final product
  • Conducting customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborate on personas.
  • Partnering with the Service Owner to ensure healthy development process. Lead DevSecOps teams and deliverables as needed.
  • Being regarded as an expert in Agile Methodology; translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories and work units through problem decomposition and planning.
  • Demonstrating superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering team.
  • Excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
  • Define the product roadmap and drive the product funding decisions.
  • Balance user and customer needs, technical considerations, and business viability to develop successful products.Mentoring junior team members

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have bachelor's Degree. A minimum 8 years of professional experience with 2 years of experience as a Product Owner
  • Have experience working with common SDLC tools and frameworks: Rally, Github, AZURE DevOps.
  • Have experience with cloud technology providers and componentry; AWS, AZURE.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

  • Flexible work arrangements.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

  • Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
  • Comprehensive private medical care options
  • Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
  • Tailored financial programs
  • Additional elected or voluntary benefits.
About Us:
We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.