Our client is seeking a Product Owner II, a dedicated member of the Scrum team who will represent the users and business and ensure deliveries align with their requirements by demonstrating working software at the end of each sprint cycle while collaborating with other product owners, product managers, operations leadership, and agile team members.
This role is for a product manager within the product management team that manages outside plant data and owns many of the internal facing GIS-based tools.
To be successful in this role you will need to become an expert on cable and the intricacies of plant data. You will be responsible for guiding virtual development teams to build tools that are essential for teams on the ground to manage cable infrastructure.
Key Accountabilities:
Partner closely with business, technology, and architecture stakeholders to bring the business and architectural vision to life, delivering features in a lean, iterative, and nimble way.
Drive the story elaboration process for your team, ensuring at least two sprints worth of ready stories.
Define Acceptance Criteria for team stories.
Prioritize the team backlog to best achieve goals and outcomes.
Ensure that the team's user story backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, showing what the team will work on next.
Accept user stories completed by team throughout the sprint on behalf of customers based on acceptance criteria.
Ensure the team understands items in the team backlog to the level needed.
Regularly attend and actively participate in Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Take feedback from demos back to teams and work to incorporate into backlog and upcoming iterations.
Collaborate with Product Managers and other Product Owners to define and coordinate feature development across other teams, where necessary.
Required Skills:
Experience functioning as the PO for Scrum teams (solely as PO, not hybrid).
Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.
Experience writing and refining user stories for software teams.
Experience with Agile tools such as Rally, Jira, etc.
Detail-oriented, with leadership and meeting facilitation skills.
Data management skills, SQL, and Tableau, as well as GIS skills, are a plus.