Product Owner

Pride Global/Russell Tobin & Associates is seeking a Product Owner to work for one of our top clients in Brookfield, WI OR Minneapolis, MN.

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Job Title: Product Owner
Pay Rate: $60/hr. to $64/hr. on W2
Location: Brookfield, WI 53005
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Duration: 6 months (with the possibility to extend)

Job Details

• Team Level Product Managers at customer obsessed in driving product planning, visioning, development, management, and customer experience to deliver on our human plus digital product strategy and staying one step ahead of evolving economic, technological, and customer needs.
• Pulls from market and competitive insights, customer needs, and internal business priorities to create the product vision (target customer segments, markets, channels, go to market approach, and value propositions).
• Aligns this strategic vision with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product roadmap, investment areas and success measures.

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically, three to five years of relevant experience.
• Proficient Agile product management or similar experience.
• Effective presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.

• Aligned to a single Agile team that includes the Product Manager, System Engineers/Architects, Software Engineers, and a Scrum Master.
• Leads Agile ceremonies such as Daily Stand Ups, Demos, Retros, and other essential Agile practices.
• Partners with the Product Level Product Manager(s) to understand features and product needs.
• Manages the team's backlog, responsible for detailed refinements of Features into Epics and User Stories that can be worked by the Software Engineers in a single sprint.
• Responsible for Product Roadmaps and prioritization of Epics and Stories that drive the team's output.
• Ensures that all acceptance criteria are met and stakeholder needs are satisfied by the team's delivered experiences.
• Provides Agile leadership focusing on design thinking and Agile values.
• Coordinates dependencies with other teams and journeys.

• Jira
• Confluence
• Dragonboat
• Mural
• Mainframe experience (preferred, not necessarily as an engineer)

ABOUT US:
Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies.

As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.