Product Owner

Description:

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of the product roadmap and evolving product vision in collaboration with business sponsors, leaders, and other stakeholders. Provide context to the Agile Delivery Team to help build solutions that meet current and future customer and business needs. Prioritize backlog according to business strategy, business impact and concrete results.

• Regularly review and report out on progress relative to business plans and business value in the context of the broader vision.

• Review, approve and provide feedback on Agile Delivery Teamwork progress, stories, sprint planning and product deliverable(s).

• Manage stakeholders and communicate across multiple business units and operating companies.

• Help remove impediments for the Agile Delivery Team by supporting information gathering from relevant business stakeholders and bring issues that disrupt the team to the Scrum Master.

• Supports product budget, coordination of resources, and assists with identification of risks and issues.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience in managing consulting projects.

• Strong business operation knowledge and understanding of business KPIs.

• A strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset that understands technology and how to leverage it to achieve business results; proven track of getting things done.

• Accountable, self-starting, and proactive; always looking for process improvements and creative ways to solve problems.

• Ability to establish trust, communicate effectively, and foster culture change leveraging situational awareness, continuous improvement, empowerment, and transparency skillsets.

• Strong written / verbal communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to speak to, and influence peers, partners, and executive leadership.

• Experience working in an agile environment; hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle.

• Working knowledge and application of Agile practices and principles, principally Scrum, and experience advocating these practices and principles across cross-functional organizations.