Job Description

Our mission

Local Logic is digitizing the built world to make it universally understandable and actionable for consumers, investors, developers, and governments with the ambition of helping build cities that are more sustainable and equitable for the people that live in them.

To achieve that dream, we\xe2\x80\x99ve built a digital twin of cities, quantifying the built world using data and AI to interpret the $217T real estate market throughout the US and Canada.

We started our journey at McGill University\xe2\x80\x99s urban planning department, where we came to see that cities were being developed in all kinds of unsustainable ways. Why were sprawling suburbs still being built, when doing so would increase pollution and inequality? Why were new business parks being built far from mass transit, when doing so would make traffic congestion skyrocket? Why was social housing being built in places that would exacerbate social problems rather than improve them?

It became clear to us why: cities are incredibly difficult to understand. But we realized that with recent advances in data science, all the complexity of cities could be made simple enough for anyone to understand. And that understanding would be essential to making the sustainable, equitable, and prosperous cities that we so desperately need.

Today, Local Logic delivers sophisticated location insights through webtools, APIs, one-click reports and a data analytics platform. Our insights are powered by billions of data points we\xe2\x80\x99ve generated that describe all aspects of cities -- from the distance to the nearest bus stop, the quietness on a street, to the most recent trends in the housing market and more.

Your mission

As a Product Owner, you will plan and manage the sprint for a full-stack development team and put in place processes to help the team deliver on our mission and business goals. You will be in charge of managing and prioritizing support requests, ensuring that communication and process are flowing smoothly within the development team, and will be a key contributor to decisions for the product roadmap. Alongside the PM and other stakeholders, you will need to find the overlap between what the industry demands, what aligns with our business goals, and what is feasible in order to deliver great products. You will work in a cross-functional team composed of data scientists, engineers, researchers, and designers and communicate frequently with contributors from marketing, sales, finance, and accounting.

You believe in our mission and want to help us achieve it. You have a strong understanding of data and analytics; internally, you are able to use both quantitative and qualitative data to justify and communicate why decisions make sense, and externally, you understand how data and data visualizations impact our user experience within our product. You\xe2\x80\x99re able to speak up when you disagree, ask questions when you don\xe2\x80\x99t understand, provide feedback to others, and take ownership of your work. You\xe2\x80\x99re hungry to learn and grow into a role where you will take progressively more strategic decisions.

We\xe2\x80\x99re a remote-enabled company, so if you want to work remotely once a week, twice a week, or five days a week, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have all the necessary tools and support you need to do so.

As a Product Owner, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the ideation process to translate Epics prepared by PMs into User Stories through Sprint Planning, by collaborating with members of a full-stack development team to set requirements, flesh out designs, and scope work that will be undertaken;
• Partner with and support the Engineering Manager of the Agile team to deliver working software to Production;
• Lead and/or partake in development team rituals throughout the sprint (scoping meetings, planning meetings, retrospectives, etc.);
• Lead a collaborative process with customer success and technical leads to triage, prioritize, and scope support requests;
• Build and maintain an up-to-date product backlog in JIRA, and shared with relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other members of the Product team to plan, prioritize, and maintain a product roadmap; ;
• Participate in user interviews and client calls to understand the pain points of users and the industry at large.

Key requirements:

• At least 5 years in a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Functional/Business Analyst role.;
• Thorough understanding of the software development cycle in a SaaS environment, especially as it relates to agile frameworks.;
• Be able to communicate with technical people and challenge them;
• Strong communication skills that adapt to the situation and the audience, as well as the ability to manage the expectations of internal and external stakeholders;

Nice to have

• Background in computer science, GIS/mapping, urban planning, environment, or geography.
• Experience working with Jira, Product board, and/or Trello;

Why should you work here?

At Local Logic, you have an amazing opportunity to be an early team member of an expanding series B backed startup. We are focused on understanding the world and its cities to predict the future, and make the real estate market more transparent.

We are a people first company that strives to create the best experience for our employees by creating an inclusive, collaborative, challenging environment to learn and problem solve on a daily basis.

You will have access to benefits such as: stock options; comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your family; a culture that emphasizes learning and work-life harmony; unlimited vacation; Intentional Fridays; discretionary health and benefits credit.

To support our company value of being Growth Oriented, employees are given a $1500 annual professional development credit.

Our commitment to diversity & inclusion

We\xe2\x80\x99re aiming to build a diverse team and inclusive company culture. We are an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

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