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Position Summary
The Product Owner will join the Pipeline Operations & Integrity team within the Midstream IT Pipeline Product Line. This role offers an exciting opportunity to guide and deliver a product roadmap that sustains, optimizes, and scales business capabilities related to control room management, integrity engineering, hydraulics engineering, and right-of-way management. The role partners with Marathon Pipe Line, Gathering & Processing, and technical experts to identify, collect, and evaluate new technology ideas, strategic extensions, and larger enhancements to determine the viability of addressing business needs that align with strategic commitments. The Product Owner plays an integral role in fostering collaboration across product and platform teams, solution architecture, technical experts, business partners, and vendors to deliver value iteratively through a scaled agile framework.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for low complexity product.
- Develops product roadmaps and release plans.
- Proactively addresses and resolves issues by collaborating with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives.
- Facilitates communication and planning between business and operations teams, User Experience (UX) design, product, engineering, analytics and customer support teams.
- Resolves product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments.
- Maintains the product backlog, prioritizing the items effectively and balancing them for short-term business-valuable product increment, mid-term opportunities to be seized and long-term problems to be prepared for.
- Carries out customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy.
- Facilitates and organizes feedback sessions with customers to understand challenges & opportunities.
- Collects and analyzes information related to emergent customer behaviors and needs, profit drivers, strategic customers, business risks and other factors that could help in making business value-driven decisions.
- Executes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; applies Agile product development approaches within assigned team
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience.
- 2+ years of relevant product owner experience.
Skills
Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of MPC's business, industry and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Makes decisions and recommendations clearly linked to MPC's strategy.
Decision Making - Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
Industry Product Knowledge - Industry product knowledge refers to a comprehensive understanding of the products and services within a particular industry. It encompasses familiarity with the features, functionalities, applications, and specifications of the products offered by companies operating in that industry. Industry product knowledge is crucial for professionals working in sales, marketing, customer service, product development, and various other roles within a company. It enables individuals to effectively communicate the value propositions of products, address customer inquiries, identify market trends, make informed business decisions, and contribute to the development and improvement of products and services within the industry. This knowledge often requires staying updated with the latest advancements, technologies, and market dynamics within the specific industry domain.
Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
User Experience (UX) - User Experience (UX) refers to the overall experience that a person has when interacting with a product, service, or system, especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.2+ years of relevant experience
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Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Additional locations:
San Antonio, Texas
Job Requisition ID:
Location Address:
539 S Main St
Education:
Bachelors: Information Technology
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here . If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at . Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at .The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program. Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability
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About Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.