Product Owner - POD Team Job

Experience

7+ Years

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Lead scrum teams in an agile work environment · 
-Partners with business leaders on formulation and execution of strategy, vision and product roadmap · 
-Execute against the roadmap to deliver industry-leading D&IS experiences · 
-Drive rapid iteration, testing and change to deliver on business goals and KPIs ·
-Assessing the competitive landscape and emerging industry trends; research the market, users and roadmap for the product · 
-Define and evolve the methodology and tools for team; provide vision and direction to development team and stakeholders throughout the project, and creat requirements · 
-Resource project with matrix reporting digital talent often including selecting and managing vendors · 
-Create and manage product budgets and expected results Getting Into the Team & Work · 
-Gather and synthesize user needs and product requirements from a variety of sources e.g. analytical analysis, voice of customer, internal business needs and workshop outputs (journey maps, touchpoint analysis, stakeholder maps, sketching, etc.) · 
-Writes user stories aligned with product vision to right-sized product backlog items, creating clear goals for the product team · 
-Coordinates product feedback from internal and external stakeholders to drive product release schedule · 
-Actively participates in iteration planning and cross product team planning sessions, leads Sprint Reviews, and participates in retrospectives when requested by the team · 
-Contributes to prioritization, maintains the sprint backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the implementation team · 
-Manages stakeholder expectations while maintaining an up-to-date roadmap to be shared with all stakeholders · 
-Leads and understands the backlog, backlog grooming and daily maintenance of the backlog as a primary function of this role · 
-Responsible for monitoring product status and feedback in the marketplace · 
-Leads and works closely with Scrum team to guide, direct, and ensure acceptance criteria is met, while maintaining focus on quality

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
-Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science or related field required · 
-7+ years of progressive experience working within Technology and/or Digital Business Strategy · 
-3+ years of Digital Product Management experience, partnering with Senior Level Business Stakeholders · 
-Proven track record demonstrating a deep understanding of product life cycle management to take a product idea from conception to release, including new feature and function releases, upgrades, enhancements, etc. · 
-Strong leadership and analytical skills with outstanding written and oral communication skills · 
-Ability to lead, collaborate, influence, and coordinate activities in a cross functional, team-oriented environment to deliver technology applications or technical products · 
-Technical aptitude to evaluate requirements and coordinate with business analysts and developers · 
-Demonstrated results establishing a product vision and road maps that led to successful business value · 
-Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss digital concepts, manage trade-offs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners · 
-Experience with scaling scrum (ex. Scrum Scale or LeSS) a plus.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Agile Methodologies:

• Has deep knowledge of agile methodologies and principles.
• Able to coach others in the use of Agile methodologies.

Facilitation:

• Good understanding of facilitation principles and techniques.
• Can effectively facilitate small-medium size group discussions, encourage participation, and promoting collaboration and engagement among team members.
• Has experience of project process definition, conducting facilitations for the projects and sharing the reports.

Coaching and mentoring:

• Has Good knowledge of coaching and mentoring techniques.
• Able to coach and mentor team members and stakeholders effectively, such as by helping them set goals, overcome obstacles, and improve their performance and collaboration.

Agile Tools:

• Able to effectively use Agile tools to manage Agile projects.

Agile Technical Practices:

• Has good knowledge of agile technical practices.
• Can effectively apply one or more agile technical practices to support the delivery of high-quality project.

Change Management:

• Basic understanding of change management techniques
• Able to work on change management requirement.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

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