Product Owner

Pay: $62.58 - 67.58/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment.

Description
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for clearly understanding the vision for the product and communicating the vision to delivery teams
• Responsible for understanding various users of the product, including other systems that may consume the product, in order to ensure that they are building a product that provides value to the users
• Responsible for conducting the necessary research and analysis to fully understand the Product s needs and requirements
• Work with Product Manager, Scrum Master and Development team in maintaining a well-refined and prioritized backlog of sufficient length to support the team s velocity
• Responsible for making sure that the team understands the context of the stories in the backlog and that the team has adequate information to deliver the stories
• Responsible for working with the delivery team to write and refine user stories
• Ensures the product is demonstrated to the business and stakeholders and confirms that the product being delivered meets the business needs
• Works with the delivery team on a daily basis to answer questions and review/approve stories being developed
• Responsible for developing test plans for individual stories and testing the stories to ensure it meets the business requirements
• Work with the Product Manager to develop end to end test case and assist in planning, sequencing, coordinating and helping users to carry out UAT
• Help in the creation of personas, journey maps, empathy maps, surveys or utilize other tools and techniques to ensure the product users are well understood by the delivery team
• Create burn up charts or other forecasting in order to set business expectations around prioritization and what may be in a given release
• Create an environment of continuous improvement by using data to answer questions
• Bring in the latest innovative thinking and ideas from the Agile community to increase agility, leveraging lean, scrum, kanban, and other agile thinking

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor s degree
• Certified SAFe Agilist, CSPO, or A-CSPO strongly preferred

Experience/Minimum Requirements:

• At least 7 years of experience in software, technology, program management and program implementation
• At least 3 years of experience in product management using agile framework
• Experience with agile approaches and concepts including Scrum, Kanban, XP or equivalent.
• Experience with the ServiceNow platform; role will specifically support Customer Service Management (CSM) and Field Service Management (FSM) modules

Skills and Qualifications:

• Track record of successfully deploying products that involve multiple cross-functional teams from initiation to delivery
• High degree of initiative and capacity to lead multiple priorities of significant scope in a fast-paced environment.
• Practical experience creating stories and grooming backlogs
• Proven ability to translate a product vision into an action
• Can demonstrate techniques for quickly and effectively understanding a client domain and product
• Demonstrated experience in helping stakeholders identify business value/objectives and using this to prioritize work
• Demonstrate ability to effectively negotiate between competing stakeholders to ensure highest value objectives are met
• Demonstrate an understanding of 'Personas' and how to identify users and create personas to represent them
• Experience working in multiple Agile environments as a Product Owner
• Experience in both agile and lean software development values and principles
• Demonstrate how to breakdown product features into well-defined stories with acceptance to create a product backlog
• Has experience in healthy conflict resolution and finding the best solutions to address issues and work effectively through disagreements

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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