Product Owner

Delta Dental•San Francisco, GA

15h

About The Position

The Product Owner is responsible for the detailed facilitation and technology delivery of specific business outcomes. In addition, this position manages day-to-day requirements, programs, and special features while working cross functionally, and collaboratively with go-to-market, operations, and technology counterparts. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for employer sponsorship.

Requirements

3 or more years of relevant IT product management experience; people leader experience preferred.
Bachelor's degree or additional experience in lieu of degree.
Knowledge of Agile software development framework, architecture concepts, and terminology.
Ability to effectively and actively communicate with both business and technical stakeholders.
Strong deductive reasoning and attention to detail.
Strong sense of customer service to consistently and effectively addresses customer needs.
High comfort level interacting with colleagues and with various levels of client organizations.
Ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects in a fast-paced & dynamic environment under tight timelines, while adaptive to change.
Ability to deal with highly sensitive and confidential information and adhere to data security and confidentiality protocols and procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience and/or accreditation in Scaled Agile a plus.
Prefer people management experience.

Responsibilities

Deeply understands customers, technology, and competition, and synthesize into the operational product roadmaps driving business outcomes through technology enablement and innovation.
Works closely with technology, and business stakeholders to craft simple, elegant, impactful experiences.
Integrates user research studies, analytics, and market analysis into product requirements.
Participates in standups, retrospectives, design reviews, user research, and demos.
Drives the overall vision and success across technology delivery teams, including both agile scrum teams and existing systems support teams.
Organizes Sprint Planning & Grooming ceremonies at the team level.
Determines if iteration outcome is acceptable from functional/non-functional aspects.
Coordinates with the team to ensure a efficient & productive daily stand-up takes place (can designate a facilitator)
Provides input into product backlog prioritization.
Prepares solid product definition and ensures all required artifacts are developed.
Analyzes metrics that inform the success of products.
Creates stories/tasks and assigns to the scrum team.
Additionally, flags dependencies & risks for the stories/features.