product owner

Hi Team,

Have a nice day.

We have an urgent position with our client.

The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that a development team (pod) is creating value for the organization through the delivery of customer-focused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Owner should always consider how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contributes to a positive work environment and ensures that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement.

Responsibilities:

• In alignment with the product vision, create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value

• Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence

• Participate in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), expressing new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency, sharing with leadership as appropriate

• Create a value-focused product backlog and continuously iterate, ensuring there are user stories scoped and prioritized

• Provide user story design, development and completion oversight, accepting / rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria

• Proactively raises issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments

• Responsible for defect management and prioritization

• Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities

• Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups

• Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product

• Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner

• Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with the senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed

• Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality and/or business testing management

• Actively communicate with business, technology and senior management regarding product changes and backlog priorities

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

• Use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify solutions

• Communicate difficult concepts; convert information to compelling business context and advice; influences and gains alignment across increasingly senior stakeholders

• Work autonomously as the lead and guide others within area of expertise

Experience And/Or Education:

Undergraduate degree and / or product certificate

• 7+ years relevant experience
• 3+ years Product Owner or Agile related delivery experience
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and project management experience considered an asset
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications or experience operating in scaled agile delivery considered an asset