ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Product Ownership: Act as the primary point of contact for the product, responsible for defining, prioritizing, and maintaining the product backlog.
Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Prioritization: Prioritize features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility, ensuring the team works on high-priority items.
Requirements Gathering: Elicit and document product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to provide a clear understanding for development teams.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, customers, and development teams, to ensure everyone is aligned with the product vision.
• Agile Framework: Implement and champion the principles of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring agile methodologies are followed.
• Roadmap Development: Contribute to a product roadmap that outlines the delivery schedule and milestones.
• Release Planning: Participate in release planning, including prioritization of features, sprint planning, and coordination of cross-team dependencies.
• Metrics and Analysis: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of the product and identify areas for improvement.
• Product Delivery: Work closely with development teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality products on time.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Typically a minimum of 8+ years as an agile product owner and a bachelor's degree and equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling instead of degree; Advanced degree and 5+ years related work experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in an agile environment
Demonstrated understanding of agile methodologies and the SAFe framework
• Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience with Jira Software, Confluence, LucidCharts, Jira Align, AgilityHealth
MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification
COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:
Must have excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills