Product Owner II

*Job Title: Product Owner II

*Location: Charotte, NC (Hybrid)

*Duration: 12 months contract, Full-Time

* Employment Type: W-2

Job Description:

Hybrid role in charlotte, NC

The Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads a single product team developing a product as defined by the Product Complexity Model.

Responsibilities:

Defines and manages product roadmap

Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders including the senior leadership team

Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)

Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs

Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development

Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation

Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features

Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems

Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Skills:

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action.

Preferred Product Owner Certification obtained within 6 months upon entry of role

Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team

Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate

Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.

Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships

Understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases

Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs

5 or more years working in utility industry

Experience as a Product Analyst

Agile Product Owner certification

"Black Belt" Six Sigma certification

Experience with Jira

Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment

Experience with teams developing and shipping software

Education:

Bachelor s degree in engineering, computer science, marketing, or related business discipline.

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