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Product Owner
Mt. Laurel, NJ, or New York, NY
W2
7 + years of experience.
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.
Experience leading and mentoring other Product Managers.
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
Proven experience building long term roadmaps for complex technical products