The Product Owner is responsible for working with the Product Management team to formulate and understand product vision and strategy and translate that vision to stakeholders by creating, prioritizing, managing, and executing the product backlog. The Product Owner will collect, analyze, and maintain business and functional requirements for all development efforts, and create actionable user stories for the development team to execute. Other responsibilities: Decompose, refine, and document requirements using appropriate graphical and textual techniques, including use cases, user stories, diagrams, process models, and functional specifications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Act as Product Owner for a product or platform capability
Drive product roadmap and manage product backlog
Lead requirement-gathering sessions to capture requirements and key decisions across varying levels of the organization
Define clear product requirements and create actionable user stories for the development team to execute
Collaborate with cross-functional teams on feature prioritization, design, and implementation
Support development teams in getting requirements clarification questions answered promptly to avoid delays in development timelines
Drive and participate in planning and design discussions and document the outcomes and decisions made
Provide support to Quality Assurance team members during solution testing and validation
Work effectively within a team environment to implement projects promptly
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
Five years or more of experience working as a Product Owner or Business Analyst
Experience building and managing product backlog
Experience in soliciting and drafting product requirements
Proficiency in requirements definition, solution design, and user experience disciplines
Experience with the SDLC methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile
Excellent verbal and written communications skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization, e.g., executive, management, individual contributors
Excellent analytical, decision making, problem solving, team and time management skills
Ability to persuade and influence others on the best approach to take
DESIRED SKILLS:
Experience with scalable, internet-facing, multi-tenant applications
Experience with workflow based and/or event-driven platforms
Experience with design and delivery of omni channel communications
Experience with print production, operations and direct mail