Associate Product Owner

The Wendy's Company•Columbus, OH

22h•$93,000 - $158,000

About The Position

The Associate Product Owner (APO) plays several key roles acting as the voice of the customer and advocating for the lifecycle of their products. In this role, you will help business owners realize the vision and align technology with key business objectives. You will drive progress on key initiatives through the execution of product roadmap(s) and management of backlog(s), and act as the link between the Product Manager and technical development teams. The APO will be on Wendy’s data management team working on enterprise data and analytics dashboard and reporting projects supporting our HR and Finance organizations. In this role, you will have the opportunity work on building out our next gen analytics and reporting applications on top of Looker and Big Query in the Google Cloud. A successful candidate in this role will demonstrate strong leadership, prioritization, and communication skills to consistently deliver outstanding results on-time and in line with established budget.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Technology, Business, or related field preferred or equivalent work experience will also be considered.
3+ years of experience working on cross-functional and diverse teams.
Leadership roles or project management experience preferred.
Experience working in IT that has resulted in an understanding of technology and its applications.
Understanding of and experience with Agile methodology required.
Excellent communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to build relationships and align stakeholders with competing interests.
Proven prioritization and organization skills.
Possesses financial acumen to ensure that organizational change efforts are aligned with the financial perspective of the desired business benefits.
Passion for partnership with inclusive and diverse teams and mirror Wendy’s core values ‘Treat People with Respect’ and ‘Do the Right Thing’.

Responsibilities

Own sprint backlog and implementation of new product initiatives.
Prioritizes product backlog working against established roadmap and coordinating dependencies with other POs.
Manages portfolio of IT initiatives to ensure proper prioritization and delivery of initiatives on time and on budget.
Responsible for development of lean business case.
Incorporates this knowledge when prioritizing features for releases.
Makes tradeoff decisions between scope (value in expected ROI) and schedule (higher operating expense in longer release cycles) to reflect the best interests of business owners and end users.
As part of PI planning, decomposes feature(s) into user Stories and establishes Story acceptance criteria.
Defines the definition of done.
Facilitate relationship with the end customer and business leadership/owners, bringing the voice and priorities of the customer to the forefront.
Work cross-functionally to ensure business requirements and solution capabilities are effectively matched and implemented.
Develops spirit of teamwork and collaboration with clear lines of accountability for key decisions.
Weekly tracking of incidents and service tasks to completion in partnership with service team.
Shares regular feedback and follow up with business partners.
Responsible for product introduction & review with stakeholders.
Documents Story acceptance criteria into JIRA and approves/validates Stories into baseline.
Understands business objectives and clarifies customer objectives for scrum teams.