Product Owner

Your Job

Flint Hills Resources (FHR) is seeking a talented Product Owner who will partner closely with FHR core capabilities to deliver on a technology roadmap that transforms work processes. The goal of FHR's Business Focused technology roadmaps is to create competitive advantage through industry-leading data management strategies and leveraging data to automate decision making. This is a hybrid role located at our Wichita, KS headquarters.

Our Team

Flint Hills Resources IT product teams create value for FHR by maximizing return on investments in technology, focusing on solving business problems and optimizing total cost of ownership. Join our Product Team and help create innovative solutions.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship What You Will Do

- Own and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a portfolio of products, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.

- Develop deep domain expertise to identify innovation opportunities and continuously improve products.

- Define, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, balancing strategic objectives and user impact to maximize value delivery. Translate business needs into clear, actionable features and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.

- Perform hands-on configuration and drive the development and testing of data integrations between systems.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Engineering, Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Support Team, etc., to ensure seamless product development and delivery.

- Evaluate market alternatives and contribute to solution design, leveraging domain knowledge to influence vendor roadmaps and ensure alignment with long-term business objectives.

- Advocate for the end-users and maintain a deep understanding of their needs and pain points. Incorporate user feedback into product planning and improvement efforts.

- Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure product quality and conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate new features.

- Use data-driven insights to inform product decisions and prioritize features.

- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the success of the product, track its performance, and identify opportunities for improvement.

- Provide training and documentation for end-users to effectively leverage our products and maximize business outcomes.

- Mentor and develop product analysts to deliver competitive results.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

- Proven ability to build domain knowledge and effectively leverage the expertise of others to lead and facilitate informed decision-making processes.

- Experience translating complex challenges into actionable strategies.

- Experience owning and prioritizing a backlog.

- Experience using query languages such as SQL and Cypher.

- Experience in designing solutions that meet customer needs, ensuring they receive the desired outcome.

- Experience building trust and collaboration with peers and customers to influence and gain alignment on objectives.

What Will Put You Ahead

- Experience working with Neo4j Graph Data Platform.

- Experience with Agile software development frameworks.

- Experience with AWS services including lambdas, log groups, serverless framework, and S3.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and

many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).