Product Owner - Remote

Description:

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Job Description:

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for supporting a Product Manager in executing the vision for one or more digital products. Ideal candidates will have experience working in an agile framework on customer facing website and e commerce solutions. This position will have a strong role in leading a key platform change initiative and user experience requirements, in partnership with designers, to drive new marketing channel improvements, sales growth, and user experience gaps in digital to brick and mortar interactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver on time business results and customer value by serving as voice of the end user/customer
• Create user experience visualizations, flows, and diagrams
• Break down epics and map user stories in collaboration with solution architects
• Translate existing customer journey into user stories and incorporate enhancements asaligned with the business
• Document story details based on the epics after reviewing with development
• Organize and optimize the value of the work done by development teams
• Continually track product performance to inform future work
• Translate the voice and needs of the customer into user stories, engaging users as needed
• Create acceptance criteria and support the execution of UAT
• Strong understanding of a Headless CMS and what that means and supports
• Create & Edit Content Entries to support Dev & UAT (Contentful as the CMS)
• Engage in continuous discovery to understand customer needs
• Leverage empirical and qualitative data to assess feature performance and inform prioritization
• Lead backlog grooming to refine and estimate story pointing
• Determine tradeoffs involving customer value, cost, and speed to execution
• Prioritize work through a well organized backlog of user stories and clearly communicate what needs to be done and by when
• Participate and at times lead core Agile meetings with one or more teams (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Demo, Retrospective, and Backlog Grooming)
• Coordinate and execute review sessions with key stakeholders
• Create test cases and support the execution of UAT
• Interface with outside suppliers for story reviews, design reviews, scrum meetings, etc.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience as Product Owner or Product Manager in 1 or more organizations Digital or Software product experience required.
• Experience taking high level strategic goals and effectively translating them into specific product strategies and tactics.
• Experience defining recommendations and requirements through data driven decision making, including leveraging ecommerce analytics to identify and quantify improvement opportunities, including Adobe Analytic Dashboards and familiarity with Behavioral Analytics Reports (i.e., heat maps, journey maps)
• Proficient experience in Contentful understanding the content model, creating content types, and creating entries
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders
• Bachelor s degree
• Experience with Jira or other related Agile management tools
• Experience with Agile development methodologies, user centered design, and lean project processes
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Agile Certifications from Scrum.org (Professional Scrum Product Owner) or Scrum
• Alliance (Certified Product Owner) preferred