Product Owner - API Lifecycle

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.  Product Owner – API Lifecycle Be the voice of the customer to the development team Work on an industry leading product with an international team Drive product improvements for API Testers around the world Product intro API Lifecycle allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface – accelerating API quality for Agile and DevOps software teams. Get started by importing API definitions like OpenAPI/Swagger or AsyncAPI, testing and recording live API traffic, or virtualizing web services to remove pipeline dependencies. Go to our product page if you want to know more about API Lifecycle . You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊 About the role As a Product Owner you will: Contribute to product planning activities Translate strategic goals into tangible work for engineering teams Own, refine and manage team backlog(s) Maintain conceptual and technical integrity of developed features Understand scope and dependencies of work within and across teams Facilitate/participate in reviews and retrospectives We are looking for you if you have: Experience working with APIs including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, etc. Outstanding organizational abilities as well as written and verbal communication skills The ability to think logically, critically, and constructively about complex problems and communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences A laser like focus on creating value for customers and removing friction for engineering teams Why you should join the SmartBear crew: You can grow your career at every level. We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun. We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off. We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person. We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes. Did you know? Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve. SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India. We’ve won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.   SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status. #LI-AJ1