Role Overview: We are seeking an Agile Product Owner with experience in the Energy industry to lead product development within our Transformers Value Stream. This pivotal role involves close interaction with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring the alignment of product development with market needs and customer use cases. The Agile Product Owner will create, manage and maintain the product backlog, making critical and difficult prioritization decisions for the squads and the business, and will be instrumental in developing use cases and multi generation product roadmaps that address end user pain points. 

Key Responsibilities End-user Problem Definition: Identify and articulate end-user pain points and expected end -user experience throughout the life cycle of the product.  User Personas: Deeply understand user personas, their business workflows and pain points.   Product Roadmap Development: Create and maintain comprehensive multigeneration product plans covering end user feature details.  Requirement Gathering: Define and document product user stories.  Backlog Management: Own the product backlog and prioritize features and enhancements for the development squads.  Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing to set strategic priorities and launch successful products.  Customer Advisory Councils: Establish and lead customer advisory councils in collaboration with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing teams to gather feedback and insights.  Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in a Science or Engineering related field (or equivalent experience) Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner). Training can be provided to certify previous experience. Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder interaction. Ability to analyze market trends and user feedback. Experience in defining user personas, developing product roadmaps, and managing backlogs. Strategic thinking and decision-making abilities. Good knowledge of medium to high voltage power transformers and asset protection and monitoring products.

Preferred Skills/Experience

Proven experience as an Agile Product Owner or similar role in product management  Hands-on experience in backlog management covering the full product lifecycle. Understanding of the power utility industry and the various Asset protection and monitoring players. Solid grasp of relevant Asset protection and monitoring products including combinations of sensors and monitoring systems for temperature, pressure, flow, partial discharge, and dissolved gas analysis. Proficiency in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and backlog tools (Jira) Experience in distributed data acquisition, substation automation, grid monitoring, or industrial IoT solutions. Experience establishing customer panels and driving user-driven product enhancements. Experience going to Gemba, mapping customer workflow and identifying use cases to deliver world class customer experience.

If you are passionate about driving product success and have a keen understanding of user needs and market dynamics, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Qualitrol

QUALITROL manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high value electrical assets and OEM manufacturing companies. Established in 1945, QUALITROL produces thousands of different types of products on demand and customized to meet our individual customers’ needs. We are the largest and most trusted global leader for partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products across power generation, transmission, and distribution. At Qualitrol, we are redefining condition-based monitoring.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.

Bonus or Equity
This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.

Pay Range
The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 120,500.00 - 223,900.00