SUMMARY

The purpose of the Senior Agile Product Owner Role is to champion & utilize Agile Product Development Frameworks to drive software development and operations/infrastructure efforts to frequently deliver usable product that delights Business stakeholders and accomplishes the goals of the Enterprise. This role will act as a liaison between Product development teams and business stakeholders, collaborating closely with both groups to ensure there is clear understanding of what features are needed in the product/application. This role will be the “voice of the business” and will focus on maintaining and prioritizing the backlog for one or more products/business groups to ensure the development team is working on Product Backlog Items that maximize business value and deliver consistent results that align to the broader Business Division or IT strategy in order to better enable our Business stakeholders and end-users. The Senior Product Owner will also drive metrics to measure the impact of products/applications on business and stakeholder value. A highly accountable self-starter who wants to make an impact on the enterprise, helping Business end-users articulate their needs, and helping IT deliver these frequently and with high stakeholder satisfaction. Expected to take on the largest projects/oversee teams of Product Owners, with large to very large user bases, very high financial impact/investment/revenue gen, proprietary products not ready to be shared with the market, and focused on up to leadership-level, including external partners, vendors, and strategic alliances with other organizations.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree (Management Information Systems, Business Administration preferred)
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc.).
• Tools: Working experience with utilizing and configuring JIRA and other Agile Planning Tools (CA Agile Rally, VersionOne, etc.).

• Work closely with Business and IT Leadership to understand strategic decisions and apply to Product Vision. Engage with IT Leadership in aligning product strategy to Product Backlogs as well as in escalating questions upwards and outwards. Drive changes in alignment w/Product Strategy. Act as the liaison between the product team and business on products, collaborating closely with both groups to ensuring there is clear understanding of what features are needed in the product/application. Cultivate and maintain an effective relationship with all Stakeholders, and help the business create detailed requirements for changes/improvements.
• Develop and Own Product Vision & Roadmap: articulate 6 month Product Vision & Release Roadmap. Understand and balance cross-team impacts and technical currency/debt vs feature-development.
• Work w/Business Partners to define and prioritize the Product Backlog in order to streamline the execution of program priorities. Ensure clearly-articulated PBIs & User Stories following best practice conventions (Who, What, Why) that help Scrum Team better understand the functionality they need to deliver. Work w/Scrum Developer team as needed to clarify functional requirements.
• PO has ultimate accountability around quality of released features and owns User Acceptance. Work w/Scrum Team to meet Definition of Done and ensure Acceptance Criteria reflected in product to ensure quality. May coordinate testing efforts and feedback loop with SMEs.
• Stakeholder communication, status reports, including budgeting (optional). Provide regular updates to business partners on product changes. Summarize the delivered value for the product changes on a quarterly basis.