Associate Product Owner

at  SITA Switzerland Sarl

ABOUT YOUR SKILLS

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a significant product owner function.
• Business / Engineering / Science related qualification to at least Bachelor’s Degree level typically. Other Degree level backgrounds considered.
• Experience of working with and across multiple agile scrum teams.
• Experience of working directly with customers.
• A proactive, dynamic and positive attitude.
• You like to work well within teams.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

ABOUT THE ROLE AND THE TEAM

As an Associate Product Owner you will be is responsible for maximizing the business value in software products delivered by Agile Scrum Teams.
The Associate PO has a strong technical and operational understanding of the product and, as this is primarily an ‘internal facing’ role, they work closely with their Product Manager to gain a clear understanding of the business problems customers need the product to solve, as well as the vision and strategic direction of the overall portfolio.
Furthermore, the Product Owner will usually drive the ‘Design Partner’ process whereby a small number of selected SITA customers are provided with incremental software updates throughout the development process of a new release.
All requests for work to be performed by the Scrum Team are channeled through and prioritized by the Product Owner.
Reporting to the Senior Product Owner of Baggage you will be a part of our Baggage portfolio team.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Fundamentally understands our customers’ business and the outcomes they want us to deliver. Works with the Product Manager to shape the Portfolio Vision.
• Contributes to the Product Vision in collaboration with the Product Manager and manages the Product Backlog
• Populates the Product Backlog with artifacts that provides the next level of detail to support the delivery of the product road map as defined with the Product Manager. Specifies Functional requirements, Non‐Functional Requirements & Acceptance Criteria.
• Responsible for discussing the features of the product and supporting the functional analysis of the backlog and call out priorities of the roadmap. Works with the Scrum Team to define Sprint goals. Attends Scrum ceremonies
• Accepts (or rejects) the team’s work during the sprint and at the End of Sprint Review. Demos the teams (accepted) work to the wider SITA community & customers.
• Reviews and approves proposed SOW’s with GEO teams before these are presented to the customer. Is co-located with their Scrum Team(s). Defines PI or Release time‐boxes. Defines MVP for a releases.
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