Solution, technology, and team facing contributions to the product vision.
Collaborate with product management to prioritize work against clear outcome-oriented goals.
Performs the roles and responsibilities of the Product Owner across one or more products, feat ure groups and development teams. Duties include quarterly planning, coordinating and attending daily meetings and stand-ups, backlog management, sprint planning and retrospectives , implementation monitoring , demos, review and acceptance .
Defines the product backlog and create s actionable user stories for the development teams.
Defines story acceptance criteria and accepts sprint increments as and if they fulfill the criteria.
Drives sprint goals and sprint content through grooming and prioritizing stories.
Work closely with user experience and development teams to drive the feature work through the delivery process.
Communicates with stakeholders and management on progress, overall status, and release activities for multiple development teams.
Key Skills
Understands the value of working collaboratively to meet the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it to inform feature definition and development; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Ability to critically analyze problems, identify possible solutions quickly, and recommend the optimal path to meet the objectives .
Ability to write and communicate clearly and concisely for various audiences, including senior leadership.
Ability to independently operate in a highly matrixed, s tartup environment.
Technical aptitude and the ability to understand the ins and outs of development, design, agile framework, software development, scrum approach, and IT infrastructure.
Project management and organizational aptitude.
Highly detail oriented and able to manage a large number of tasks simultaneously.
Can manage a couple of product streams or feature groups in parallel.
Understands the importance of change and effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably ; seeks out the balance of information gathering, decision making, and execution; is comfortable with a certain level of risk and uncertainty.
Key Competencies
Problem Complexity: Typically works with moderate supervision/guidance . Identifies problems and all relevant issues in straightforward situations; generates possible solutions , assesses each using standard procedures and makes a sound decision . Understands the key business drivers relating to own area; uses this knowledge to focus own work.
Managing Measuring Work: Works with manager to assign responsibility for tasks and decisions; contributes to setting clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress, and results; helps design feedback loops into work.
Peer Relationships: Can find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent their own interests and yet be fair to other groups; can solve problems with peers with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; easily gains trust and support of peers; encourages collaboration; can be candid with peers.
Minimum Qualifications
3+ years experience in a technical or product delivery role
Previous experience or knowledge of product management
Bachelor s degree required (Computer Science or Business Administration preferred)