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Responsibilities: As a Product Owner you will- • Author requirements and user stories for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met. • Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus. • Familiar and have experience in using agile/scrum methodologies such as SAFe to drive and deliver product releases. • Provide week-to-week tactical objectives to scrum team, and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triage. • Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration. • Work with 3rd party system integrators to drive process on schedule and on budget. • Drive beta and pilot programs with early-stage features, Proof of concepts, etc. • Be the voice of the product and company at system demos, sales calls, conferences and industry forums. • Validates and sign’s off on all major design changes, epics, and stories • Partner with product management, application architects, and development manager to help establish vision, release and annual program backlogs • Research to identify needs that new or improved products can satisfy by analyzing and compare competitors’ products as well as meet with customers to discuss their requirements. • Responsible for coordinating and working closely with technical writer leader, engineers, and product management to produce product documentation such as user guides, release notes, internal and external training. Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent. • Certification or experience in areas related to Product Management, Scrum or Agile methodologies. • 5 years’ experience as an Agile Scrum Product Owner or similar roles. • Strong experience in Agile development particularly Scrum. • Must have proven work experience as a technical ‘influencer’ and ability to own and drive the product and/or specific product features.
Preferred Additional Skills • Interpersonal skills: Help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and delivery team). • Facilitation skills: Elicit business and user needs and all technology delivery needs. • Analytical skills: Evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into appropriate features and/or stories. • Experience with off-site product development teams. o Ability to work in a dynamic and flexible environment with the ability influence. • Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus The successful candidate should demonstrate innovation, constant learning, self-motivation and effective team participation.