Product Owner

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Position Summary

The Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads the product team(s) developing the product(s). This position may be involved in the funding management and budgeting processes for the products and/or portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Defines and manages product roadmap
• Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team
• Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)
• Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs
• Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development
• Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features
• Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems
• Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Required/Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Marketing, or other Related Degree
• Minimum 4 years related work experience
• In lieu of Bachelors degree(s) AND 4 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 8 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• In addition to desired degree, 4 years related work experience
• Certified SCRUM Product Owner

Preferred Qualifications

• 4 or more years working in the electric utility industry
• Experience as a Product Analyst
• Experience with new product development and stakeholder engagement
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action.
• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team
• Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate
• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships
• Understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases
• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs

Working Conditions

• Office environment mostly, with some travel for team or stakeholder meetings
• Hybrid Mobility Classification – Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to the designated Duke Energy facility