Overview:
Join our team as a Senior Product Owner and play a leadership role. Leverage your extensive experience in product ownership to shape the product vision, collaborate with stakeholders, and lead cross-functional teams in delivering exceptional products that add value to our customers.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Co-own and execute the product roadmap with the Product Director, driving alignment with organizational goals.
- Partner with stakeholders across the organization to shape the product vision, strategy, and feature prioritization.
- Translate high-level product roadmap epics into detailed product requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs.
- Lead scrum refinement meetings, sprint planning, and retrospectives, fostering collaboration and innovation within the team.
- Ensure timely resolution of customer issues and prioritize them based on impact and urgency.
- Document new features comprehensively to educate and align internal and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate closely with the production team to streamline implementation processes and drive continuous improvement.
- Monitor post-launch product performance and identify opportunities for future enhancements and investment.
- Maintain a robust repository of product documentation in Confluence, ensuring accessibility and accuracy.
- Champion a customer-centric approach throughout the product development lifecycle, driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- Responsible for planning releases, co-ordinating sprints and ensuring products align with the company’s vision.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5 to 8 years of experience in a product owner or related leadership role.
- Deep understanding and mastery of agile or lean software development methodologies.
- Hands on experience in managing all stages of the product life cycle.
- Extensive experience in launching software products in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively present to large groups of stakeholders.
- Proficiency in prototyping and iterative development.
- Expertise in development tracking software tools like Jira.
- Strong ability to decompose epics into user stories with acceptance criteria and mock-ups.
- Demonstrated leadership in working with cross-functional team members including designers, engineers, and Scrum Masters in an Agile Scrum environment.
- Proven track record of running refinement ceremonies and driving stories to meet the definition of ready.
- Experience in creating product road map and communicating the changes to all the stakeholders.
- Experience in release demo and effectively capturing stakeholder feedback and leveraging the feedback in future iterations.
- Experience creating and maintaining comprehensive product documentation in Confluence.
- Advanced prioritization skills to effectively meet squad objectives and sprint goals.
Preferred Skill:
- Extensive hands-on experience in Agile Scrum methodologies and ceremonies.
- Track record of successfully executing product roadmaps and delivering high-impact products.
- Certification such as certified scrum product owner (CSPO) ,SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager can be beneficial
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