: Product Owner||Chicago, IL on site ( Local only)||Contract||

Hello,

My Name is Shahid .  I am reaching out to you today because we have your resume in our database and wanted to check if you are currently available in the market actively looking for an opportunity. Please see the below mentioned requirement and I believe you would be a good match for the role. I would appreciate if you could respond with your updated resume along with the good time to speak so we can move forward with the process. 

 

Title : Product Owner

Location  : Chicago, IL on site  ( Local only)

Employment : Contract

 

H1b with PP

Experience required : 10+

 

Role Description:       

We are seeking a Change Agent, a program/ portfolio coach, who can help us in this multi-year people, process and technology change initiative. You will be responsible for working with cross functional teams to increase Agile acumen, develop and enhance intellectual property, and streamline and implement processes and best practices to ensure successful adoption of Agile principles, techniques and mindset to achieve the greatest business value. Additionally, you will work closely with the newly established Digital Modernization Office (DMO) to help shape the enterprise investment portfolio in alignment with business strategic priorities, using OKRs to set goals and measure deliverables. You must be able to provide mentoring and coaching to Impact Zone Leaders and Product Owners on creating the vision, discovering problem statements, helping set strategy prioritizing and planning and finally measuring and tuning to adopt the agile ways of working and must be able to correlate learnings to principles and practices with supporting, relevant, real-world examples. Who you are: A seasoned Agile Practitioner who thinks principles over practices, pragmatic, and can apply coaching methods in context of the system/ environment.

 

You must be: -

• Curious and a hungry learner
• A Problem solver
• Tenacious
• Collaborative and relationship builder
• You own your work You Must Have
• Solid foundation in Agile, Scrum, Lean, Less, Kanban and other frameworks
• Excellent communication, facilitation, team building and conflict resolution skills
• Proficient in facilitating landscape mapping Workshops, mapping customer experience, designing product experiments, distilling opportunities and road mapping
• Passion for coaching and training to help evolve organizational structures to enable collaboration across hierarchies.
• Proficiencies in value stream mapping Building experiences that evolve with the emerging needs of the users
• Ability to create mid management engagement and buy in.
• Attentive listening and a consultative mindset to understand areas and reasons of resistance or fear to help Product Owners, managers and teams make the transition and embrace agility
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Agile techniques such as continuous integration, automated testing, test-first approaches such as TDD, ATDD, etc., pairing, Agile games, etc.
• Organizational skills required to determine the programs goals, and to assess and develop the team or programs transformation plans.
• Minimum of 15 years of product/ software delivery experience
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or a relevant field
• Prior experience with large scale transformation Your Daily Work May Involve
• Leading through influence and acting as an agent of change with a set of teams or a program to evolve their ways of working
• Working with technology, business, product and operations partners to understand current state, challenges and coaching, training and mentoring th