Technical Product Owner

What would you do?

Translate Product Owner / Product Manager visions into meaningful Epics and Stories so that the scrum team can incrementally deliver. Provides quantitative expertise (data analysis, statistics, forecasting, simulation, and optimization)

Work on a variety of high-visibility IT projects, either in the form of internal development or in conjunction with external vendors.

Manage risks, issues, and develop remediation plans.

Analyze numbers, trends, and data to drive new strategies and streamline & automate processes.

Ability to formally report on findings in a concise, understandable way.

Responsible for providing line of sight to data quality and gaps where issues need to be addressed.

Assist with managing team delivery commitments and helping to remove enterprise and escalated impediments.

Manage several concurrent projects of varying priority and complexity, across multiple teams and multiple business divisions.

Assist Product Owner with prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

Assist Product Owner with backlog management, iteration planning, and grooming of the user stories

Measure and communicate product business value and ROI

Willingness and aptitude to identify technical requirements and translate to adequate technical stories (eg: API creation, integrations, code refactoring, etc).

Lead deep-dive technical analysis sessions, and ensure results are clearly documented

Make things happen without frequent management direction and know when to communicate status or escalate issues to their manager, teammates or stakeholders.

Enjoy working in a high-profile environment with fluid priorities, ambiguity and extremely aggressive deadlines.

Ensuring the team produces continual and on-time delivery of value.

Drive root cause analysis of production issues and identify resolution and preventative steps. Actively influence the automated testing efforts to achieve 80% = automated coverage

Mentor junior team-mates to define and implement detailed measurement data, error logging/tracking for all products within our domain

Quals--
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS)

Experience as a product owner or has worked closely with product owners on digital platforms

Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization

Understanding and usage of agile metrics (velocity, burn downs) to help the team be more productive

Experience with root cause analysis and digging into different sources of information (transaction details, logging, customer data, etc) to understand issue causes and identifying preventative steps and resolutions.

Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills

Excellent organizational and time management skills

Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent negotiation skills and ability to partner with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog as necessary

Creative thinker paired with great attention to detail

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job,

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS)

Bachelor's Degree in related field

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