About Acres

Acres is a leading land intelligence platform analyzing over 150M U.S. land parcels to power faster, smarter decisions for real estate, corporate, agriculture, and finance. Our mission: bring data-driven transparency to America’s largest asset. Learn more at Acres.com.

Why Join Acres?

World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people who are passionate about our platform, our customers, and their own ability to make an impact on the outcomes of our business. This may be the best group of humans you've worked with.

Velocity and Urgency: we work fast, which means you'll learn a lot, be exposed to many facets of the business, and the role you're being hired for is needed and impactful to the outcomes of our business. You won't be bored.

Cutting Edge Product and Technology: Our platform is state-of-the-art and powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing how you discover, create, and share relevant data. You'll be proud of what you create.

Compensation and Benefits: to support our hardworking team, in addition to competitive compensation plans, we also offer all full-time regular employees: 

• company-sponsored (partial) medical, vision, and dental insurance  for employee, spouse, and dependents 
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• unlimited Paid Time Off
• generous stock options 
• eligibility for company-wide bonus

We are dedicated to the growth of our platform and the growth of our people. We're looking for high performers who go about their work with a sense of curiosity, responsibility, and a drive to make things better. We are a primarily onsite team located in beautiful downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. We are looking to fill this onsite role quickly, so candidates local to Northwest Arkansas are encouraged to apply. 

Acres is an equal opportunity employer and recognizes that diverse teams are the strongest teams. We encourage interested individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

*Note: Acres seeks qualified candidates who are eligible to work in the United States. We are unable at this time to provide any sponsorship for work authorization.

About This Role

Acres is hiring an Associate Product Owner Intern based in Northwest Arkansas to join the growing software development teams which support our Acres platform. This position presents the opportunity to help build and enhance some of our most important externally facing products. An ideal candidate will be comfortable ramping up quickly so that they can help in developing and communicating thorough requirements for various initiatives.

The Associate Product Owner Intern will serve as a product and feature-specific expert when it comes to tactical feature functionality. They will be responsible for feature decomposition as well as tactical requirement gathering and documentation (user story creation). They will regularly interact with internal and external stakeholders.  They will be comfortable and confident speakers who can communicate with users on a regular basis.

The Associate Product Owner Intern will work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we are delivering maximum value. They will be responsible for creating well-written, thorough user stories which our software development squads will leverage to deliver new features. Hiring the right people for these roles is important to our team because they will be integral to the creation and continuous improvement of our products. As at any growing company, you can expect many other tasks and responsibilities to be assigned as well as growth opportunities to be seized.

This is a full-time (40 hours/week) 3-month internship that pays $15 per hour. 

Core Responsibilities

• Communicate regularly with internal and external stakeholders to optimize business value from our product(s)
• Work closely with the VP of Product and Data Science and Senior Product Owner to ensure feature requirements are in line with product strategy
• Work with Product, UX, and across teams to facilitate user research using a variety of research strategies.
• Assist with managing the product backlog and ensure it is prioritized to support the product strategy 
• Decompose epics and features into clearly written user stories containing acceptance criteria that are actionable and of business value
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies
• Create visual aids to demonstrate requirements to our development squads, e.g. process flows, mind maps, etc.
• Work one on one with UX resources to ensure workflow designs meet expectations
• Measure feature usage post-release to make recommendations to our business partners concerning enhancement, modification, or retirement of features
• Serve as a liaison between product and development teams, and be available to answer questions or concerns that arise during development 

Key Competencies/Requirements

• Experience in creating documentation which breaks down complex requirements into easier-to-understand features: (e.g. Visio, Miro, Lucid Charts, etc.)
• Effective communication skills
• Openness to learning and sharing knowledge
• Extremely well organized
• Possess a keen eye for detail
• Local to Fayetteville Arkansas or willing to relocate 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Undergraduate degree in product management, computer science, or related field
• Experience working in Agile project management tools like Azure Dev Ops, Jira, ZenHub, etc.
• Experience in the tech industry
• Experience working with a Product team as well as UX Design
• Experience with user research

Legal authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment at Acres.