Product Owner II

Role Overview

• Takes the lead more independently in areas of product development by following the principles of Agile to manage the team backlog, anticipate and prioritize needs, oversee development stages, act as a primary liaison and evaluate product progress.
• Serves as the customer proxy; works collaboratively with business owners and other stakeholders to accomplish these tasks with little to no support and with a higher volume of work.
• Utilizes strong understanding of the business vision to offer guidance and influence the business owner's requirements.
• May provide overall leadership to Product Owner team through mentorship and guidance.
• Applies scientific practice within iterations in order to routinely plan, do, check and adjust.
• Manages team backlog items and prioritizes based on business value.
• Outlines dependencies and informs stakeholders the necessary sequence of development to ensure optimized performance and outcomes.
• Holds a significant role in quality control and is the primary team member empowered to accept stories as done.
• Utilizes strong business knowledge, influence and communication skills to anticipate problems, address them accordingly while working cross functionally in a self-organizing manner to accomplish tasks and effectively manage the backlog.
• Effectively applies critical thinking to identify flexibility in determining how and when each iteration and product element will be developed.
• Acts as primary communicator and connection between stakeholders, end users and teams determining if each story meets their shared expectations.
• Mutually partners with the business and uses effective challenging techniques in order to influence decisions.
• Ensures collaboration from all stakeholders on decisions and strategy providing clear instructions and deliverables for developers.
• Takes ownership for each stage of the process and final product to ensure the goal and vision are correctly aligned with the work items on the backlog.
• Contributes input into the prioritization of the program backlog, coordinates dependencies and manages the inspection and evaluation of product progress through each iteration.
• Assists in the mitigation of program risks.
• Participates in PO and/or ART sync meetings in addition to the system demo to show critical aspects of the solution.
• Participates in Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshop to work across teams to define and implement improvement stories to increase program quality.
• A key member of the Agile team who utilizes perspective to define iteration goals and drives execution and delivery with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Partners with the business owner to understand needs, manage scope and add/eliminate user stories.
• Communicates requirements to Agile Team in a clear and collaborative manner to determine new requirements, negotiate teams and dependencies.
• Regularly interacts with the Product Manager in order to discuss goals and share a clear understanding of the business/value stream vision.
• Heavily involved in the Program Increment (PI) planning, story definition and assists team with story estimates and sequencing.
• Oversees the development of the product to include planning, refinement, review, and execution.
• Partners with stakeholders to identify and organize steps required for next iteration.
• Works to gain clarity on queries and participate in the demo of committed items.
• Participates in ceremonies within the team to coordinate efforts with team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement and support the execution of tasks.
• Continuously keeps the end-user needs in mind based on on higher level of business acumen.
• Ensures the solution meets expectations and the development delivers expected outcomes from the accepted stories.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to PO I.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Strategic Planning – Preferred
• Stakeholder Analysis & Alignment
• Prioritization
• Change Management
• Communication – Advanced
• Leadership
• Critical Thinking/Decision Making
• Collaboration
• Prioritization of Work
• P&C Insurance
• Office Suite
• Intermediate (4-6 Years)
• Rally
• Intermediate (4-6 Years) – (or equivalent such as Jira/Confluence)
• Excel
• Entry Level (1-3 Years)
• Agile certification or SAFe Certification

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Career development and training opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)
• Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group
• Private Health Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development