Overview:
The Product Owner role removes much of the guesswork by understanding the detailed workings of the product solution and can elicit feedback, requirements and analyze new needs and enhancements. This person is part of the Agile Delivery Team to ensure that system features, functionality and usability requirements are well defined, prioritized and meet the market’s needs. This person must have the availability and knowledge to support the product solution. The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that the team has as much information about end-users as possible so that they can review the results and verify we are delivering a quality outcome.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
● Master of the Agile Product Owner Role
● Dig into problems, perform analysis, and share findings with delivery team
● Know-how to write, break down and prioritize user stories with supporting acceptance criteria
● Partner with Product Manager to have a full understanding of the market problems to categorize user stories into must have, should have and/or nice to have buckets
● Manage the agreed-upon backlog priority of the solution for each sprint
● Ensure continuity in business decisions throughout lifecycle of the effort
● Evaluate and validate with engineering team members the effort estimates for user stories and features
● Assist in the creation and upkeep of documentation to ensure that all practices and processes can and are followed
● Positive contribution to the wellbeing of all team members
● Attend and contribute to all release and sprint ceremonies to include stand-ups, pre-planning, iteration/sprint planning, sprint demos, release updates and retrospectives
Analyze Product Offering
● Understand usage data on features and user behavior to assist in user story creation and analysis
● Leverage all types of requirements modeling/visualizations to ensure full understanding of the ‘What’ to the delivery team
● Bridge the gaps between technical needs and the requirements of our users so that innovative and exciting solutions are delivered to the market
● Develop and maintain product documentation
● Ensure integration of requirements across all functional areas
Accept Product/System Deliverables
● Evaluate working software meets requirements criteria and is of quality for market release
● Accept working software through manual hands-on testing, as needed
● Ensure that clear communication occurs in a timely manner to Delivery Manager and direct Manager when commitments are at risk, impediments arise, or personnel issues exist
● Conduct other assignments which assist in carrying out the mission of Product
Position Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience:
● 3 – 5 years’ experience as a product owner in an Agile software development environment
● Proven track record successfully solving problems for web and mobile users
● Working knowledge and experience interacting with desktop, web and mobile standards and technologies
● Experience with CRM, Microsoft DevOps, Microsoft Office365, Google Tool Suite, AHA!, Lucidchart, Simple SQL Queries
Qualifications Preferred:
● Comfortable integrating into an Agile team
● High degree of both technical expertise and business acumen
● Excellent communication, interpersonal, time management, and personal organization skills
● A positive and enthusiastic approach to technical challenges
● Passion for the user and for creating an extraordinary solution
● Attention to detail and a drive for quality and innovation
● Must be able to work productively in a fast-paced development environment