Associate Product Owner

The Wendy's Company•Dublin, OH

About The Position

The Associate Product Owner (APO) acts as the voice of the customer and advocates for the lifecycle of assigned products. The role helps business owners realize their vision and align technology with business objectives by executing product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and serving as a link between the Product Manager and technical development teams. The APO works on Wendy’s data management team, supporting enterprise data, analytics dashboards, and reporting projects for HR and Finance. The role includes helping build next-generation analytics and reporting applications using Looker and BigQuery in Google Cloud. The successful candidate demonstrates leadership, prioritization, and communication skills to deliver results on time and within established budgets.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience working on cross-functional and diverse teams.
Experience working in IT that has resulted in an understanding of technology and its applications.
Understanding of and experience with Agile methodology.
Excellent communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships and align stakeholders with competing interests.
Strong prioritization and organization skills.
Financial acumen to ensure organizational change efforts align with the financial perspective of desired business benefits.
Commitment to partnership with inclusive and diverse teams and to Wendy’s core values of treating people with respect and doing the right thing.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Leadership roles or project management experience.

Responsibilities

Own the sprint backlog and implementation of new product initiatives.
Prioritize the product backlog against the established roadmap and coordinate dependencies with other Product Owners.
Manage a portfolio of IT initiatives to ensure appropriate prioritization and delivery on time and on budget.
Develop lean business cases and use them to prioritize release features.
Make tradeoff decisions between scope, expected return on investment, and schedule in the interests of business owners and end users.
Decompose features into user stories during PI planning and establish story acceptance criteria and the definition of done.
Maintain relationships with end customers and business leadership, bringing customer priorities and perspectives to the forefront.
Work cross-functionally to match and implement business requirements and solution capabilities.
Build teamwork and collaboration with clear accountability for key decisions.
Track incidents and service tasks weekly through completion in partnership with the service team.
Provide regular feedback and follow-up to business partners.
Introduce products and review them with stakeholders.
Document story acceptance criteria in JIRA and approve or validate stories into baseline.
Understand business objectives and clarify customer objectives for scrum teams.