Key notes from Manager: Cover experience, experience with Data initiatives, experience as a product manager - client/customer understanding/management (role not necessarily title), Attention to detail and experience with EPic/Stories. - Looking for High Level
Required Skills/Experience
Experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure
Experience playing the Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance Domain will be added advantage
Experience in any technical skills like AWS, java, bigdata, tableau is must.
Articulates, elicits and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy
Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems
Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives
Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure
Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach
Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows
Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users
Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests
Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests
Basic knowledge of RDBMS & SQL will be a big plus
Experience working for ISV in product development role
Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner
Very high commitment level
Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc.
Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation
Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog
Constructs and communicates an Agile team's product release plan to stakeholders
Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies
Work very closely with Scrum Masters to define & review feature list for various product
Work very closely with Scrum Masters & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development
Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team)
Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog
Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases
Participate in functional tests
Plans for and facilitates planning sessions
Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features
Preferred Skills/Experience
Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision
Understanding of insurance products
Proven negotiation, influence and collaboration skills
Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation
Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking
Proven public speaking skills
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates
Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile team's product delivery
Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement
Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment