Product Owner
About The Position
The product owner is responsible for defining product features and ensuring development aligns with business goals. Working closely with the Product Manager and cross-functional teams, the Product Owner acts as a liaison between stakeholders and development to deliver high-quality product increments, in return maximizing the return on your investment and generating revenue. A Product Owner takes ownership of the product developing, researching and gathering user stories, which describe the product from the user’s perspective. The Product owner is responsible for managing the priorities, vision and execution of product development, through the development lifecycle—known as a sprint.
Requirements
- Pertinent Business domain experience (ex: Annuities, Customer Care, etc)
- Bachelor’s degree in applicable study or four years of product or project development experience
- A minimum of three years (preferred) of experience working in an agile environment, successfully driving end to end delivery of data and intelligence solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Development Methodology
- Working knowledge of product development architecture
- Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
- Ability to prioritize effectively
- Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
- Ability to work with large teams
- Understanding of design quality standards
- Strategic and Creative thinking
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
Nice To Haves
- Product Owner certification is preferred
Responsibilities
- Define and prioritize product backlog items based on business value and customer needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into clear user stories
- Work with the scrum team to ensure a shared understanding of features and priorities
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Continuously refine and adjust the product backlog based on feedback and changing priorities
- Make data-driven decisions to improve product performance and customer satisfaction
- Develop scope and define backlog items that guide the Agile development team ensuring items are ready for development and have acceptance criteria.
- Ensure that delivered features meet the acceptance criteria and align with the product vision
- Liaises with other Product Owners to identify dependencies and mitigation strategies
- Tracks progress towards the release of a product, monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
- Communicates progress, risks and outcomes to leadership
- Provides reports to update PMO, Management and stakeholders on product development operations
- Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
