Senior Scrum Product Owner

Senior Scrum Product Owner

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Job#: 1260495

Job Description:

Responsibilities
• Collaborate with product architect and engineering teams to translate customer requirements into user stories for the development teams to implement
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation
• Work with project managers and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles
• Work with development teams to ensure that they understand the vision for the product and are designing great features for our partners
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams
• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product
• Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases
Required Skills

• Must have 4+ years as a product owner
• Must be able to demonstrate prior experience with Scrum
• Eliciting information from multiple sources and creating requirements and/or working software for a solution that satisfies all inputs
• Decomposing customer and internal systems specifications into software requirement specifications or working software
• Acting as technical liaison with end-user clients during the development process
• Knowledge of requirement management systems, software configuration management tools, and MS Office suite.
• Experience working on cross-functional, collaborative, self- organizing and accountable teams in individual contributor and lead roles
• Demonstrated proactive leadership
• Able to present complex ideas concisely
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent communicator/information sharer
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Team builder, motivator, coach and trainer
• Creative and innovative thinker
• Excellent relationship and expectation management skills
• Effectively manages multiple activities of varying complexities
• Time/prioritization management skills
• Flexible, comfortable with change
• Effectively manages and can thrive with ambiguity
Preferred:
• Prior experience working with an engineering company
• Prior experience working with a software company
• Experience with Agile teams including Scrum and Kanban (only 1 is required)
• Lean process implementation experience
• Experience leading teams beyond the status-quo to higher levels of excellence and performance

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