Geophysics Product Owner (Specialist - Principal)

Job Description & Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the product meeting customer needs, quality and usability expectations, while ensuring positive customer experience
• Member of the scrum team responsible for defining stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritizing the team backlog to define features that meet the customer expectations, adhering to Agile methodology and best practices
• Accepts completed stories and works with the QA Lead to ensure test case completeness to the acceptance criteria 
• Updates the product backlog to meet changing market and customer needs upon approval from the senior Product Management organization 
• Responsible for adherence to Agile Development within the solution development lifecycle processes
• Work with the Solution Owner, executive management, and external stakeholders to help define solution priorities, product direction, and business and commercial strategy
• Help the Solution & Domain Owners with internal demand channels such as the Sales & Marketing organizations to generate go-to-market and sales-strategy materials and will use these to help prepare regional channels for new software releases
• Work closely with Delivery Management and the Product Engineering organization to clearly define scope that drives resourcing needs
• Provide external product demos and presentations and build relationships with current and new customers
• Participate in professional societies, produce technical journal articles, and maintain technical areas of expertise

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Geoscience qualification (BSc., MSc. or higher)
• Requires an undergraduate degree in Marketing, Science, Mathematics or Engineering and a minimum of 3 years of experience in technical product domain which includes experience in software product management
• 5-10 years industry experience performing seismic interpretation workflows
• Practical experience using commercial seismic interpretation & other geosciences subsurface software
• Commercial acumen and business focus to understand the value of the product to the customer and work with a customer centric approach
• Great communication skills to work collaboratively and be confident working with customers
• Experience with cross-domain and cross-functional engagement and collaboration

Additional/Beneficial Experience

• Practical experience using DecisonSpace Geosciences and other Halliburton-Landmark Products
• Previous Product Owner and/or Scrum Master experience
• Practical experience using ADO or other software development trackers
• Technical writing, documentation and use case creation

Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher level roles given (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available including Principal Product Specialist