Product Group Owner

• Ensure the co-creation and refinement of requirements (business value)
• Understand and anticipate the needs of the stakeholders and customers.
• Represent the Business stakeholders to the team.
• Understand the technical scope of the Cloud Service(s) required for your product.
• Act as primary communicator and liaison between the stakeholders and the team and ensure all channels of communication are open as required.
• Ensure that the product group is always working towards delivering the highest business value.
• Inspect progress at the end of every iteration (sprintly/bi-sprintly) with complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• Capture stakeholder feedback during reviews to refine existing product backlog items or create new ones for future consideration.
• Change the course of the increment at the end of every iteration, as necessary, to ensure that the desired business value is delivered.
• Help the team prioritize risk mitigation and technical debt reduction.
• Ensure that cross-product group impacts related to their initiatives are communicated to other product group(s) when applicable.
• Ensure that cross-product group impacts that have been communicated by other product group(s) are discussed and addressed as applicable.
• Convey the initiative vision/objective and key results; and ensuring it is understood by the Pod Product Owners.
• Convey the objectives at the beginning of every release/iteration and ensure it is understood by the team.
• Generate and maintain the list of work to be completed by the pod(s).
• Write product backlog items along with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure the refinement of requirements (work) occurs so that the development team can confidently commit to the completion/delivery of work.
• Continuously prioritizing and sequencing the backlog to ensure that the team can deliver the highest business value iteratively and incrementally.
• Participate in the check-ins, planning meetings, reviews, retrospective and refinement as determined and defined by the team.
• Make the work visible and transparent to the team.
• Mitigate identified risk, taking inputs from all members of the team and prioritizing risk backlog items appropriately.

Required:

• 5-7 years of experience.
• Possess a diverse set of career experiences and have worked across several businesses.
• Skills and demonstrated knowledge in product development, backlog management, stakeholder integration.
• Experience influencing at senior levels across matrixed structures to drive outcomes.
• Solid grounding in Cloud technologies across one or more Cloud Service providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience in using tools such as JIRA/Confluence for managing backlogs.
• Embody the Agile principles through leadership style.

About GalaxE.Solutions

GalaxE is a professional IT services firm that specializes in platform-driven solutions and the use of automation to achieve enterprise business transformation and mission-critical change for some of the largest companies in the world. Using our proprietary solution set, GxFource , we apply machine learning techniques and predictive analytics tools as part of a broad artificial intelligence strategy that provides effective impact and data-driven business transformation.

Since its founding, GalaxE has been dedicated to advancing the benefits of technology. As we continue that legacy and look to the future, a focus on business enablement through agile, cost-efficient, and effective integration of people, process, and technology anchors our success. We revolutionize change in the costs of doing business that transform companies and their ability to leap beyond the competition.

At GalaxE we value people and are committed to diversity and inclusion where our employees are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to be authentic. We focus on cultivating both traditional IT and non-traditional, new collar, workers through our Outsource to America , program.

We are always looking for passionate, entrepreneurial-minded innovators and disrupters; game-changers that take ownership of the work they produce and bring it each and every day. Working with like-minded team members you will get a chance to discover, develop, and use cutting-edge technologies to transform the way we deliver creative business solutions.

Sound like you? Join us and find out for yourself what it means for you, and your career, to be part of the GalaxE team. Let s build something, together. #WeAreGalaxE

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
• Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
• Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.

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