Roles and Responsibilities
- Serve in a decision-making, leadership role on an Agile Scrum team as Product Owner.
- Be a highly visible, fully embedded team member who attends all team-level check-ins, meetings and other events (being a PO will be your full-time job).
- Build, refine, and prioritize team backlog in alignment with the program vision and roadmap.
- Draft specific team objectives for each iteration and Program Increment (PI) that are aligned and contribute to program objectives and overall company strategy.
- Break features down into stories, define story acceptance criteria and accept stories as done.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Owners and other stakeholders to resolve dependencies and coordinate efforts as required to deliver on team objectives.
- Represent the team at program-level meetings and pass relevant information back to the team.
- Participate in team demos, reviews and retrospectives with an eye toward continuous improvement.
- Prepare for Program activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and Inspect and Adapt.
Desired Qualifications
- Alignment with Expeditors culture and a total commitment to customer satisfaction.
- Driven, strong, get it done attitude. Lives the belief that done is better than perfect.
- Experience working in freight forwarding or other transportation industry roles.
- Experience with software development and shipping products for internal and external users.
- Experience and proficiency with software development lifecycle and software development methodologies including SAFe, Lean, Scrum and Agile.
- Certification or ability to become certified in Leading SAFe and SAFe PM/PO.
- Proven interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide spectrum of people including senior leaders, customers and people across geographies.
- Effective at navigating ambiguity and helping diverse teams drive towards clarity and consensus.
- Excellent time management and organization skills.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication.
- Ability to recognize and mitigate risks.
- Highly literate in current industry issues, topics and market drivers that affect our software.
- A curiosity about software engineering tools and practices that facilitates better decision-making and better relationships with team members.
- A strong interest and desire for knowledge about the commercial and operational aspects of Expeditors network and the broader transportation industry.
Qualifications
Bachelor s Degree in business, statistics, information systems or related with min 8 years of work experience .