Agile Product Owner, to work with agile product management and engineering team to successfully deliver features and products to the market. Product Owner will be
responsible for certain key functional areas of the product and will be the go-to person for these areas including defining features and user stories. The Product Owner will work closely with assigned scrum team to translate these to technical tasks and be responsible for overall delivery of product features within quarterly releases. In addition, Product Owner will be responsible for helping to evangelize the product to marketing, sales, pre-sales and professional services teams and being the SME for questions and clarifications.
Responsibilities:
- Author requirements and user stories for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met.
- Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus
- Familiar and have experience in using agile/scrum methodologies such as SAFe to drive and deliver product releases.
- Provide week-to-week tactical objectives to scrum team, and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triage.
- Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration
- Work with 3rd party system integrators to drive process on schedule and on budget.
- Drive beta and pilot programs with early-stage features, Proof of concepts, etc.
- Be the voice of the product and company at system demos, sales calls, conferences and industry forums.
- Validates and sign’s off on all major design changes, epics, and stories
- Partner with product management, application architects, and development manager to help establish vision, release and annual program backlogs
- Research to identify needs that new or improved products can satisfy by analyzing and compare competitors’ products as well as meet with customers to discuss their requirements
- Responsible for coordinating and working closely with technical writer leader, engineers, and product management to produce product documentation such as user guides, release notes, internal and external training.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent.
- Certification or experience in areas related to Product Management, Scrum or Agile methodologies.
- 5 years’ experience as an Agile Scrum Product Owner or similar roles.
- Strong experience in Agile development particularly Scrum
- Must have proven work experience as a technical 'influencer' and ability to own and drive the product and/or specific product features.
- Preferred Additional Skills: Interpersonal skills, Facilitation skills, Analytical skills, Experience with off-site product development teams, Ability to work in a dynamic and flexible environment with the ability to influence, Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus.