Product Owner with SAFe :: Hybrid

USC & GC Only

Product Owner with SAFe

Immediate onsite in Parsippany, New Jersey (3 days onsite 2 days remote)

Interview Mode: video interview

 

Responsibilities:

·     Build business cases to prioritize features through market research and competitive analysis.

·     Work with your Product Manager to manage and align product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders illustrating the difference between a product roadmap and an execution plan.

·     Collaborate with the designers, architects, and engineers to iterate on the MVP scope and ensure cross-team coordination.

·     Manage product backlog with well-refined user stories that are easy for the engineers to estimate.

·     In collaboration with the Product Manager, establish the product vision for complex and high impact products incorporating leading-edge technologies.

·     Recognizes and prioritizes the most important work for product teams (short-term and long-term work).

·     Responsible for working with team(s) to refine the stories in the team(s) backlog and implement / address improvements that have implications across the program.

·     Balance trade-offs among product value, design, cost, and technology.

·     Act as the voice of the customer, interfacing with leaders as an advocate for your product and communicate the value of the product or new features to internal and external audiences.

·     Identify the audience, user groups, needs and feature requirements.

·     Align user needs and business value while streamlining and championing delivery channels for product delivery. Includes technical and go-to-market delivery.

·     Develop feature and user story requirements with acceptance criteria while acting as final release gatekeeper for new functionality.

·     Define and launch minimum viable products, adding key features/requirements incrementally, making economic tradeoffs along the way.

·     Participate in PI and sprint planning sessions.

·     Facilitate road mapping, backlog refinement, and team demos.

·     Coordinate dependencies between different teams and organizations as part of PI Planning and PO Sync ceremonies.

·     Prepare and deliver verbally and orally effective communications regarding progress and status for features and stories.

 

Skillset:

·     Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related equivalent experience

·     SAFe POPM certification

·     4+ years of experience in an enterprise using SAFe

·     3+ years of experience in IT full development life cycle

·     3+ years of experience working in a Product Owner capacity

·     3+ years of experience decomposing features into user stories for software products

·     3+ years of experience using Azure Dev Ops as an Agile Lifecycle Management tool to create features, stories, and roadmaps

·     Excellent written and verbal communication skills

 

Preferred Skills:

·     Experience in software delivery in it at a Logistics Services company.

·     Capable of thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities shift on a regular basis.

·     Strong attention to detail with excellent writing and presentation skills.

·     Excellent organization and analytical skills.

·     Experience working as PO in a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team.

·     Flexibility to work with teams, individuals and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people.

·     Agile mindset and proficiency in SAFe practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices.

·     Experience creating problem statements and executing user research to validate those problem statements.

·     Experience spearheading initiatives that span across multiple business groups.

·     Experience creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories.

·     A demonstrated understanding of how to vertically slice Epics and Features.

·     Experience conducting user research and testing to understand needs.

·     Experience conducting competitive research and analysis.

 

 

Thank You,

 

Rohit Singh

Sr.IT Technical Recruiter | First Ring Solutions LLC | Philadelphia, PA, 19102

E: rohitsingh@firstringsolutions.com D: (215) 437-3001 Cell: (267) 857-9855