Deque Systems is hiring: Product Owner - Monitor in Ann Arbor

Career Fulfillment & Culture People come to work for Deque because of what we do: enable businesses and organizations to make their sites and apps accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. The personal fulfillment employees feel here is unparalleled. In addition to the altruistic nature of our jobs, the organizational structure is extremely flat and welcoming. Women-owned and operated, Deque CEO Preety Kumar is internationally revered for her down-to-earth personality and work ethic. Deque's core values are central to our culture of customer satisfaction. Innovation with results that matter • Open, direct & respectful communications • We care deeply • Deque Systems is looking for an execution-focused Product Owner to orchestrate the development of two of our flagship products, axe Monitor and axe Reports. The Product Owner will be responsible for maintaining the backlog, running sprints, and delivering releases. They will work with the engineering leads to define and maintain metrics to track the effectiveness of the development team. They will work with the QA team to ensure that product releases are high quality and will proactively communicate with all stakeholders to make the releases of our products smooth and seamless. Maintain prioritized backlogs that balance roadmap features, tech debt, bug fixes and customer tickets • Work with customer support to resolve issues • Communicate regularly with the Product Manager about roadmap progress, team capacity, and risks to meeting the goals • Schedule and facilitate team events, such as standup, refinement, planning, demo, and retro • Collaborate with the development leads and Product Manager to set release dates • Work with QA and development to ensure complete and efficient development and testing • Maintain team metrics and prioritize automation to improve the development processes • Own the release process by ensuring quality requirements are met, preparing internal teams, delivering documentation, and scheduling the release. Experience as a scrum master or product owner • Agile development expertise • Previous experience with enterprise software products • command line applications, APIs, git, GitHub/GitLab, Continuous Integration tools Deque (pronounced dee-cue) is a web accessibility software and services company, and our mission is Digital Equality. We believe everyone, regardless of their ability, should have equal access to the information, services, applications, and everything else on the web. We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. With over 475,000 extensions installed and over 5,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard. Join our growing family as we work to make the web a better place for everyone. Remote Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.