Product Owner / Scrum Master

Product Owner / Scrum Master

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Job#: 1276707

Job Description:

Position Overview:

Responsible for oversight and/or implementation of new and/or existing programs. May be enterprise specific or cross enterprise. Requires strong verbal and written communication skills in order to effectively communicate with and to Sr. Management.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Leading 3-4 dev's for the banks Asset Management.com
  • Move product launches
  • New ETF's and categories of product need content built out
  • New Data integrations with research data, work with data
  • Add layers of security (user management) more access to additional content based on user.
  • Building out functionalities of cite
  • API integration
  • Working with dev's
  • Running Scrums ceremonies and daily stand ups - No SM on team currently
  • Product owner (own's financial product) decides features of product - not him
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Split large stories into smaller stories
• Groom the backlog
• Conduct Release planning
• Conduct Sprint planning
• Navigate the Sprint review activities Education

Top Requirements:

• Must have demonstrated product management experience with exceptional leadership skills.
• Experience with MS Project, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
• Minimum 5 years' experience as product manager working with Agile methodologies
• A minimum of 2 years' direct experience with CMS implementations and practices
• Content, campaign & digital marketing strategy
• Technical architecture & leadership

Nice to Have:

• Drupal Experience
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JS and PHP Must Have
• Ability to create strong engagement with partner organizations in development of program roadmaps, execution plans and tracking risks and issues that align to business strategy.
• Demonstrated CMS implementation and management experience (ideally with Drupal).
• Act decisively with ability to impact and influence others
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to dive into details to drive issue resolution.
• Ability to collaborate with marketing teams to align marketing activities and how they should be executed within the CMS.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with architects and developers to define requirements and determine the best approach to implement technical solutions
• Servant Leadership - Able to garner respect from your Scrum team(s), lead and demonstrate value-add principles, and willing and able to get your hands dirty to get the job done.
• Attitude of transparency - Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the Scrum team and grow trust between the business and development.
• Conflict resolution: Able to facilitate discussion of issues and different approaches and alternatives, and effectively resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Experience working with UI/UEx professionals and front-end developers
• A thorough understanding and appreciation for the Agile values and principles.
• 5 years of experience as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.
• Have led teams as an Agile Product Owner in a large, complex enterprise environment where successful projects potentially involve more than 1 Scrum team.
• Prior experience using Jira/Confluence and other Atlassian suite of products
• Bachelor's degree or related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience in technical and digital marketing disciplines.

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