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Our client is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Product Owner to guide the development of products in their Product Management Group. This team enables the client to better serve their customers by embracing SaaS and the Cloud along with OnPrem Legacy Software. They operate in an Agile Scrum development environment. The Senior Product Owner (SPO) is one of the projects key stakeholders. The SPO aligns with the VP Of Product Development on a detailed vision for the product and is responsible for communicating that vision to the development teams. The SPO is responsible for the product, and it’s features from concept to End of Life.
• Working with product director, architects, UX designers and development teams to ensure the business, quality and feature goals are met for each release
• Interact with exec staff to understand the needs for the product
• Ability to have oversight of both upstream and downstream impact of the request from the business user community
• Responsible for the design, usability, and quality of releases
• Responsible for ease 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:
• 3+ years of experience as a product owner or product manager
• Overall IT experience of 8+ years
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
• Know the pros/cons of managing both up (with exec/business stakeholders) and down (with the dev team) to deliver the right product for the org
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or MIS
• Excellent soft skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Development background utilizing agile methodologies a plus
• Ability to explain a concept in simple terms and still be detail oriented