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Product Owner

[Austin, TX, 78753] |   2022-01-13 14:41:10

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Job Code : QUEST011

Product Owner

Austin, TX/Remote

12+ months Contract

We are looking for Product Owner who has experience in gaming software development or gameUI/UX.

Deliverables

  • All output must align with product’s strategic vision and Product Manager’s strategic direction
  • All product “issues” to be documented in JIRA
    • Upon new product’s ideate entry, begin to identify, define and write epic, asks & user stories for MVP and 1:N features
    • MVP will require at least 2,500 user story points
    • PO to enter epics, asks and user stories in JIRA
    • Upon alignment with product marketing, PO to prioritize via backlog
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  • Create dashboards and metric trackers in JIRA/Confluence
  • Maintain team pages as confirmed in Confluence
  • Upon entering concept phase, maintain two sprint worth of user story backlogs (created, refined, in queue)
    • Each sprint requires min. of 150 user story points
    • Documentation required 48 hrs. prior to sprint planning meeting
    • PO to enter acceptance criteria and align with product manager on criteria prior to upcoming sprint
  • Work with other software teams to define/develop shared functionalities for this new product  
  • Attend/Facilitate Meetings
    • Facilitate bi-weekly look ahead meetings with development teams for sprint planning
    • Host retrospective sprint session and capture challenges
    • Attend weekly core team meetings
    • Weekly meeting to review deliverables with product manager/product management team

Deliverable Timelines

  • PO to address/enter any action items within 48 hours of the assignment
  • Provide notes within 24 hours of any PO facilitated meetings & document notes in Confluence

Expertise needed

  • Product owner experience in gaming software development or game UI/UX  
  • Desired expertise in console or gaming handheld UI/UX development, Software Platform Integration or Game Engine Development

Job Description

  • Understands customer use of product & customer’s journeys
  • Ensures communication of customer problems/gaps to stakeholders
  • Works across all functional areas, gathering inputs, updating product plans and roadmaps and communicating the impact of product/solution decisions to all stakeholders
  • Attends system demos
  • Reviews/accepts authored features
  • Responsible for leading and lagging metric capture and reporting
  • Works with engineering, enablement team, support and other product and program managers
  • Has a solid technical understanding of the product/program and underlying technologies
  • Builds a lean UX canvas to explain the product and asks in a much easier way to the entire team
  • Drives agile maturity for assigned teams and shares scrum responsibility
  • Shares the risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies with stakeholders
  • Consults with Product Manager to interpret strategy, milestones and goals
  • Prioritizes the epics of the application with Product Manager into releases that provide value
  • Defines the stories and specifies the acceptance criteria without imposing implementation choices
  • Adjusts the stories and prioritizes as per needs after every sprint
  • Keeps stakeholders well informed of upcoming status as well as get their feedback
  • Ensure that the product backlog is clear, transparent and visible
  • Evaluate solution progress, based on value provided at each iteration
  • Work with scrum master to establish sprint, meeting and demo cadence
  • Participate in daily standups, retrospectives and demos
  • Drive backlog grooming and sprint planning
  • Remove blockers for team, reach out to other teams in order to coordinate deliverables and research unknowns with team as needed

 

Thanks,

Riyaz Khan Pathan 

Sr Technical Recruiter

 

 

1601 N Harrison Ave, STE # 2B, Pierre, SD 57501

Phone: 605-220-5981 Ext 113 | Direct: 605-776-2219 |

Email: riyaz.khan@my3tech.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyazkhanpathan/

F: (605) 609-2010  |

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