Product Owner

My3Tech
Austin, TX 78753, USA

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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
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