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Neogen Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🌾 Agriculture

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Biotechnology • Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Neogen Corporation is a biotechnology company that offers a comprehensive range of solutions and services aimed at ensuring food safety throughout the food chain. They cater specifically to the food processing, animal protein, and agriculture industries, helping to protect the global food supply while promoting efficient production practices. In addition to their primary focus on food safety, Neogen also serves the companion and performance animal sectors, as well as engaging in life sciences and toxicology fields.

📋 Description

• Manage scrum teams of software developers, quality assurance engineers, and product managers to deliver new functionality for the Neogen Analytics software platform • Partner with Product Management, Engineering, QA, Customer Success, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders to align software solutions with business goals and customer needs • Gather, analyze, and translate stakeholder and end-user feedback into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and documentation • Own and maintain the product backlog, prioritizing features, enhancements, defects, and technical work • Translate the product roadmap into epics, features, and user stories for Agile teams • Collaborate with engineering and QA to clarify requirements, support solution design, validate implementation, and help ensure high-quality releases • Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives • Support end-to-end product launch activities with engineering, support, training, and customer-facing teams • Optimize user experiences and product performance across on-premises, integrated hardware, and performance-sensitive environments • Monitor product performance, customer feedback, adoption, and usability trends to identify enhancements • Identify process improvements and drive effective Agile product ownership practices • Communicate product priorities, progress, risks, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences • Maintain product artifacts, including backlog items, release notes, workflows, requirements documentation, and decision records

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, product management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered • 3-5 years of experience in software product ownership, product development, business analysis, Agile delivery, or a related software delivery role • Strong understanding of Agile principles, Scrum practices, backlog management, sprint planning, and iterative software development • Ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, requirements documentation, and product workflows • Experience using Azure DevOps or a comparable tool to manage backlogs, user stories, work items, sprints, and delivery tracking • Ability to translate customer, operational, and business needs into actionable technical requirements • Strong verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences • Highly organized and detail-oriented, able to manage competing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations • Collaborative approach across product, engineering, QA, support, and business teams • Analytical problem-solving skills, including evaluating options, identifying trade-offs, and supporting decisions with data and stakeholder input • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and related collaboration platforms • Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced environment • Ability to work in the United States in accordance with applicable employment requirements • Experience in food safety, animal safety, life sciences, diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, supply chain, or other regulated or quality-focused environments • Experience with software products integrating with hardware, instruments, on-premises systems, cloud platforms, or enterprise business systems • Familiarity with UX concepts, usability testing, workflow optimization, or customer journey mapping • Experience supporting product launches, release readiness, training materials, customer support enablement, or go-to-market activities • Knowledge of API integrations, data flows, system configuration, or technical architecture concepts • Experience with distributed or cross-functional teams across multiple business units or locations • Product Owner, Scrum, Agile, or related professional certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunities to strengthen product ownership, Agile delivery, stakeholder management, and software product strategy skills • A role with visibility across cross-functional teams and the ability to influence product outcomes from discovery through delivery • A workplace committed to equal employment opportunity, inclusion, and respectful collaboration