Sr Product Owner

T-Mobile•Bellevue, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At T-Mobile, we invest in YOU! Our Total Rewards Package ensures that employees get the same big love we give our customers. All team members receive a competitive base salary and compensation package - this is Total Rewards. Employees enjoy multiple wealth-building opportunities through our annual stock grant, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), and access to free, year-round money coaches. That’s how we’re UNSTOPPABLE for our employees! Ready to elevate your career and be a part of the next chapter in the Uncarrier journey at T-Mobile? Join our team as a Sr Product Owner (PO) who will be a key part of our extended Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. Sr PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and the single point of contact for our Dev team and Customer team for user story details. This is a crucial role responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing our Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team. In this capacity the Sr PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. Drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two are essential to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / efficiency in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a Sr PO supports a single Agile (Scrum), but often supports multiple tams as part of sophisticated initiatives. Our Sr PO has a meaningful role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning). This role coordinates with other POs to align backlogs to complete large, cross-functional initiatives. In addition, mentoring other Product Owners to ensure they are growing in their career and job acumen. Our team is dynamic where no day is the same, and we are a diverse and inclusive team passionate about growth and innovation! If you're up to the challenge, apply today!

Requirements

Agile Methodology
Backlog Management
Business Acumen
Conflict Resolution
Create User Stories
Data Analysis
Product Management
Scrum
Strategic Thinking
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience.
4+ years relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.
Advanced level understanding of customer experience.
At least 18 years of age
Legally authorized to work in the United States

Nice To Haves

CSPO – Scrum Product Owner certification

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the Agile team backlog with ready user stories to support continuous sprint execution.
Collaborate with Agile teams and stakeholders to write user stories and define acceptance criteria and tests.
Facilitate synchronization meetings with other product owners and mentor peers to enhance product ownership capabilities.
Review and accept completed user stories to ensure they meet acceptance criteria and quality standards.
Support product managers in creating and managing product vision and technical roadmaps related to scope.
Coordinate with other product owners to align backlogs for large, cross-functional initiatives.