Product Owner

*** Webcam Interview**** Long term project - Initial PO for 1 year with multiyear extensions ***Remote***Need 3 Professional references***

Job Description:

Scope of work

• Working closely with stakeholders, including customers, business leaders, and developers, to gather requirements and feedback.
• Writing clear and complete user stories and requirements to guide the development team.
• Sprint planning & sprint facilitation to help the team understand the priorities and goals for each iteration.
• Defining acceptance criteria for each feature or user story to ensure the final product meets quality standards.
• Gathering feedback from users and stakeholders to make iterative improvements to the product.
• Participating in product releases, ensuring timely delivery of features and updates.
• Acting as a bridge between the development team and other departments, ensuring clear communication and understanding of the product goals.

Responsibilities:-

• Work with State staff, including such contractors and agents authorized and designated by the State, as necessary to produce and execute all associated artifacts, deliverables and plans.
• Coordinate, create and/or improve information with respect to impacted business processes and systems to assist, direct, and execute incident identification, business impact, and resolution.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood by these stakeholders.
• Work with the EPMO-designated Manager to manage impacts from changes to scope on analysis work.
• Prepare and submit for approval any proposed changes in analysis scope for a given project and refrain from implementing until such changes are approved in writing by the State.
• Ensure that each Business Analysis deliverable is documented on the approved project deliverable acceptance form and has the formal sign-off in accordance with the deliverable acceptance process defined and agreed to by the State.
• Recommend specific corrective actions that can be taken to resolve the analysis-related issue or risk.
• Engage State project sponsors, project stakeholders and others as may be required to address issues, risks, scope creep, or other problems requiring sponsor involvement.
• Schedule and lead regular Elicitation Meetings, Interviews, and Workshops.
• Provide agendas and capture action items, issues, and key decisions made.
• Distribute the documented notes to attendees as directed by the State.
• Attend such meetings regarding the projects as may be directed by the State.
• Provide guidance to increase the likelihood of successful completion of project and related analysis deliverables.
• Provide deliverables to the State Authorized Representative''s designee, and, as required, federal agencies in the agreed upon format and timeframe.
• The parties agree that the State, in its sole discretion, will determine whether furnished deliverables are deemed acceptable.
• The Parties understand and agree that a deliverable will not be deemed acceptable unless and until the State provides written acceptance of the deliverable.
• Contractor agrees that each BA it supplies will provide deliverables as referenced in this SOW to the State Authorized Representative''s designee and, as required, federal agencies in the agreed upon format and timeframe.
• The parties agree that the State of Vermont, in its sole discretion, will determine whether furnished deliverables are deemed acceptable.
• The Parties understand and agree that a deliverable will not be deemed acceptable unless and until the State Authorized Representative or designee provides written acceptance of the deliverable.

Minimum Required Skills:-

• 6+ years experience as Product Owner .
• CSPO or PSPO certification -Mandatory 
• Government experience
• Salesforce experience