Product Owner - Telecom

Job Title: Product Owner - Telecom

Location: Philadelphia, PA or Mount Laurel, NJ
Job Type: Permanent Hire

Job Description:

Product Owner

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Telecom domain experience
• Software Defined Networking, Self Service, Billing and Repair

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsibility:

• Define, communicate and reinforce the product vision; make it visible
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define & communicate the product roadmap
• Break down and prioritize delivery of products and features by developing and maintaining the product backlog, user stories, and cross-product dependencies
• Enable incremental delivery of features over multiple releases, minimizing time-to-market
• Elicit, identify, document, and refine requirements from business problems to detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that may include technical requirements
• Lead Sprint planning meetings; explain feature priorities and requirements to the development team.
• Lead the Sprint Review (demo) along with stakeholders to provide fast feedback on sprint results
• Perform acceptance testing for user stories and features
• Lead sprint retrospectives and contribute to continuous process improvement
• Create end user documentation, training guides, and release notes

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Represent the stakeholder and customer needs for a given feature or product
• Define acceptance criteria for the demonstrable features, sprints and releases
• Prepare reports for management regarding project status
• Partner with the Beta Team, Support Teams, and Deployment teams
• Provide feedback and answers for product/feature issues

Skills:

• Background in advanced networking projects, SDN is a plus
• Background working on high volume web applications.
• Extensive experience writing user stories, backlog prioritization, and sprint team management.
• Experience working on solution that leverage Amazon Web Services, Azure, or other cloud solutions.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on quality and continuous improvement

Education

• Minimum Degree with IT Skills