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Our client is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal Product Owner to guide the development of products in our Product Management Group! This team Enables our client to better serve their customers by embracing SaaS and the Cloud. They operate in an Agile Scrum development environment. The Principal Product Owner (PPO) is one of the projects key stakeholders. The PPO aligns with the Chief Product Officer on a detailed vision for the product and is responsible for communicating that vision to the development teams. The PPO is responsible for the product, and it’s features from concept to End of Life.
• Working with product managers, architects, UX designers and development teams to ensure the business, quality and feature goals are met for each release
• Responsible for the design, usability, and quality of releases
• Responsible for easy of product upgrade and migration from prior releases with minimal issues and complexity
• Collaborating with R&D and product managers to translate business requirements into user stories
• Maintaining a prioritized backlog of user stories, features and defects
• Working within a SAFe Agile Team (Scrum of Scrums, Big Room Planning, PI sessions, etc)
• Participating in daily Scrums, Sprint planning and Sprint reviews & retrospectives
• Inspiring and motivating the engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Deep knowledge of the DevOps tool chain (Testing, Automation, Collaboration, Monitoring, etc)
• Understanding of the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery market
• Know the pros/cons of working with and contributing to open source
• A bachelor s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or MIS
• Excellent soft skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Understand the challenges and nuances of enterprise software upgrades and migrations
• Proven SaaS delivery background
• Demonstrate a successful commercialization of open-source software
• Development background utilizing agile methodologies
• Ability to explain a concept in simple terms