Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner
Location:  Philadelphia, PA Hybrid
Duration:  1 year+
USC, GC, H4EAD

Description: 

Dedicated member of the Scrum Team who represents the users and business, and ensures deliveries align with their requirements by demonstrating working software at the end of each sprint cycle while collaborating with other product owners, product managers, operations leadership and agile team members. 

Responsibilities and qualifications include:
• Partner closely with business, technology, and architecture stakeholders to bring the business and architectural vision to life, delivering features in a lean, iterative, and nimble way
• Drive the story elaboration process for your team, ensuring at least 2 sprints worth of ready stories
• Define Acceptance Criteria for team stories
• Prioritize the team backlog to best achieve goals and outcomes
• Ensure that the teams User Story backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, showing what the team will work on next
• Accept user stories completed by team throughout the sprint on behalf of customers based on acceptance criteria
• Ensure the team understands items in the team backlog to the level needed
• Regularly attend and actively participate Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• Take feedback from demos back to teams and work to incorporate into backlog and upcoming iterations
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other Product Owners to define and coordinate feature development across other teams, where necessary
• Experience functioning as the PO for Scrum Teams (solely as PO, not hybrid)
• Experience writing and refining user stories for software teams
• Experience with Agile tools such as Rally, Jira, etc.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) strongly preferred
• Experience in the telecommunications industry a plus