Workload Automation Product Owner

Broadcom • Durham, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD) is committed to addressing the fundamental needs of our customers by continuously evolving our solutions. We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Workload Automation team in Plano, TX, where you will collaborate closely with R&D to deliver enhancements and new capabilities to a suite of workload automation programs that run the world's largest enterprises. These solutions orchestrate workflows to ensure applications such as payroll gets processed on time, financial institutions start the morning with the correct balance, and so forth. The Product Owner (PO) at Broadcom is essentially the “glue code” between Product Manager (PM) and the Development Team, with their primary value derived from understanding, contributing to, and executing the product and solution strategy. This execution involves breaking down high-level strategic goals into concrete outcomes, which are then further refined with the development team into manageable Enablers or User Stories ready for completion. The PO works on-site within the R&D scrum teams to determine how the work will be completed and is responsible for ensuring what the team has developed successfully covers the customer validated use cases. Additionally, the PO leads customer engagement and customer validation efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum 8 years of related experience or Masters degree and 6+ years of related experience
• Agile Product Ownership: Proven ability to own, prioritize, and groom a product backlog while translating high-level roadmap items into actionable User Stories and Enablers.
• Strategic Execution: Experience in breaking down complex technical requirements into concrete outcomes with clear Acceptance Criteria.
• Leadership Experience: Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, fostering a high-performance culture focused on quality and delivery.
• Expert Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated success in managing complex relationships with diverse stakeholders, including customers, executive leadership, and engineering. Ability to navigate competing priorities and communicate "the why" behind product decisions with clarity and diplomacy.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to bridge the gap between R&D engineering teams and business-oriented Product Managers.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role
• Mainframe Ecosystem Literacy: Foundational knowledge of the z/OS environment, including familiarity with TSO/ISPF. Comfort with JCL and general programming to understand job failures or resource constraints and their potential impact.
• Direct experience with using or managing mainframe schedulers or Workload Automation products. Experience with CA 7 and/or Jobtrac a plus.
• Strong business acumen with ability to perform impact analysis for missed batch windows and translate business requirements into jobs run in workload schedulers.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with R&D development teams to maximize the value delivered to the customers
• Understands how the Enterprise backlog model operates with Epics, Capabilities, Features, and Stories
• Effectively communicates with both internal and external stakeholders
• Establishes, prioritizes, and helps sequence backlog items based on defined strategies, events, and dependencies with other teams
• Ensures the common understanding of backlog items, their acceptance criteria and alignment on definition of done with R&D scrum teams
• Coordinates with other Product Owners and cross-functional roles throughout the development and delivery process
• Independently resolves complex project issues and challenges
• The principal responsibility of the PO is to maintain a prioritized, transparent, and straightforward backlog of work items that align with the product strategy and enable maximizing the product value.
• Refines the backlog items with R&D teams to reach a common understanding with sufficient detail for the team to work on for the current and next iteration.
• To maintain cadence across many teams globally, PO communication is key to ensure inter-team and cross-team dependencies are communicated and risks to team productivity are shared and mitigated.
• The PO is responsible for raising information to enable management by exception and is accountable for communication with their PO peers and solution leadership.
• The PO raises dependencies and potential derailers early so they can be addressed in a timely manner without impacting the delivery schedule.
• The PO regularly leads projects requiring coordination with other functions or teams while providing guidance to less experienced team members.
• PO actively seeks new opportunities for engagement with customers, builds and strengthens customer relationships.
• Regular iteration reviews are one of the responsibilities of the PO.
• The PO decides when it is appropriate to share progress with internal and external stakeholders.
• In establishing the Sprint Review event, the PO will invite their customers describing the value they may expect to receive.
• Typically performed over video conferencing, a Sprint Review will showcase the most recent development.
• Presenting at industry conferences on their product, the technical vertical into which our products integrate, and on relevant adjacencies is strongly encouraged for all POs.
• When a support case is escalated to the development team for further action, the PO must be aware of the case and may manage the case to completion.
• The PO closely collaborates with development teams to ensure the items with the highest business value are prioritized, refined, understood, and ready for the development teams to pull into their iterations.
• PO represents the “voice” of the customers and internal stakeholders towards the team.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(K) participation including company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• company paid holidays
• paid sick leave and vacation time
• The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees