Software Product Owner

Toyota Industries Corporation•Louisville, KY

18h•Onsite

About The Position

The Software Product Owner is an extension of the Product Management organization and partners with one or more Product Managers to bring the product vision and strategy to the development team for execution. The Product Owner is an active member of 1 or more development (SCRUM) teams and represents the customer as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), to ensure that the customer’s view is well represented. The Product Owner therefore takes a business/functional approach but also possesses just enough technical knowledge to converse with the team as required. He/she intercepts the Epics from Product Managers and decomposes them into Features and later Stories for iterative software development and delivery. The Product Owner drives the backlog.

Requirements

Must be eligible to work in the USA long term without sponsorship.
Bachelors Degree
Minimum 1 year of experience in a Business Analyst or Product Owner role.
Minimum 2 years of experience in a software development organization.
Ability to understand and participate in technical discussions related to software development.
Bachelor’s Degree.
Willingness and ability to travel up to 30%.
Relevant experience in logistics/supply chain or related industry.
Strong acumen for problem solving.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Good time management skills with an ability to handle competing priorities.
Ability to effectively interface with customers.
Experience with cross-functional teams, including engineering, sales, and marketing.
In depth experience with material handling systems and/or warehouse management systems.
Experience leading a team.
Comfortable speaking in front of small to medium size groups.
Detail oriented in nature.
Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps for software development.
Experience with Lucid, Miro or other planning and collaboration tools.
Project Management experience.
Employees must follow all information security policies, protect confidential data, complete required training, and report any suspected security incidents to support our information security controls.

Responsibilities

Responsible to manage the backlog for 1-2 teams as required on a single product.
Meet regularly with Product Managers to ensure strategy and planning alignment for the product.
Decompose Epics into Features in Azure DevOps that are clear and digestible within the defined time boundaries.
Groom Features to ensure proper functional and non-functional acceptance criteria, as well as other required data points such as clear title and description.
Create and attach supporting artifacts and diagrams on requirements to ensure clarity for the team.
Work very closely with other SCRUM team members to promote thoroughness and to ensure proper scope, so that everyone involved is clear on what needs to be built.
Work with QA to lead software demonstrations and ensure that product expectations are met.
Prepare and lead demos with other stakeholders or customers as required.
Solicit product feedback and drive continuous improvement in the product.
Partner with architecture to gain a clear understanding of how and why the product should be designed, influencing a customer-centered approach.
Review and align with QA on test strategies to ensure proper end-to-end coverage.
Review and sign-off on product level documentation from the Technical Writers.
Participate in daily and weekly SCRUM ceremonies.
Ensure that your team’s Azure DevOps artifacts are updated with the correct data points, states, and assignment, so that reports and KPIs are always up to date and accurate.
Build a product that is configured to order, abstracting features and functions so that they are not customer specific, but rather serve the broader market.
Work with UX and others to create an intuitive and easy to use experience for our customers.
Innovate on new ideas and better ways to solve customer problems in the product.
Explicit focus on Quality in all our product endeavors.