Product Owner

Job Description

The Product Owner oversees new product and feature enhancements, planning and directing activities to ensure the timely development and delivery of reliable and efficient solutions to business requirements, and developing acceptance criteria to validate that the resulting product meets customer requirements.

Responsibilities

Coordinate dependencies with other POs and work across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality

Work with other POs and leadership to help shape the product vision and enumerate high-level priorities

Act as liaison between stakeholders and the team

Drive product delivery through keen understanding of the customer, mission, and product requirements

Develop the team roadmap and support the team as needed to deliver on commitments

Communicate with other Product Owners and Scrum Masters, program leadership, customers, and development teams

Work in Agile methodology, write product requirements/Epics/user stories in ADO, and ensure story Readiness and Acceptance Criteria

Working with UX/UI and getting designs updated for upcoming sprints

Manage product backlog Manage, adjust for risk, and prioritize product backlog with the focus on execution for at-least 2 sprints

Backlog refinement Lead backlog refinement to deconstruct, refine and estimate stories, add acceptance criteria and enable long range technical planning

Be available for the team in all Scrum ceremonies meetings including standups, retrospectives, and demos

Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities

Partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery

Drives value to the business by building, managing, and maintaining Product Backlog(s)

Builds a Product Backlog and reviews it with business owners to determine business value and to assign priority

Provide coaching to team members who are new to Scrum and Agile practices

Act as a liaison between the team and management as well as a liaison between the team and the customer/end users

Qualifications

Perform other related duties as required

Bachelor's in Business Administration, Information Technology, Management or related fields or the equivalent combination of education, training, or experience

3+ years of experience functioning in a fast-paced Product Owner or similar role

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner Product Manager (POPM) or equivalent PO certification

3+ year experience working with Pega

Strong leadership experience with focus in project management and scheduling

Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong digital and technical skills

Agile software development lifecycle knowledge

Desired Experience in mortgage industry

Desired Experience in software development using .Net and modern web frameworks

Desired Experience with software development and/or QA testing

Desired Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO)

Desired Pega Business Architect Certification (PCBA)