Product Owner

Product Owner

Location: Phoenix, AZ(3 Days a week onsite from Day 1)

Duration: Long Term

Required Skills/Experience

• Experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure.
• Experience playing the Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance Domain will be added advantage.
• Certified Product Owner (CPO certification - CSM) Preferred
• Experience in any technical skills like AWS, java, bigdata, tableau is must.
• Articulates, elicits, and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy.
• Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems.
• Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives.
• Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure
• Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach.
• Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows.
• Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users.
• Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests.
• Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests.
• Basic knowledge of RDBMS & SQL will be a big plus.
• Experience working for ISV in product development role.
• Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner.
• Very high commitment level
• Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc.
• Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation.
• Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog.
• Constructs and communicates an Agile team s product release plan to stakeholders.
• Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies.
• Work very closely with Scrum Masters to define & review feature list for various product.
• Work very closely with Scrum Masters & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development.
• Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team)
• Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog.
• Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases.
• Participate in functional tests.
• Plans for and facilitates planning sessions.
• Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision.
• Understanding of insurance products
• Proven negotiation, influence, and collaboration skills
• Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation
• Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking.
• Proven public speaking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates.
• Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile team s product delivery.
• Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement.
• Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment.