SAFe Product Owner

Product Owner

As a SAFe Product Owner, your role is pivotal in ensuring the successful delivery of our products and services while adhering to values, principles, and successful patterns. Joining a cross-functional team, you'll collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, and stakeholders to define, prioritize, and validate the evolving solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Ownership: Serve as the primary contact for the product, accountable for defining, prioritizing, and maintaining the product backlog.
• Vision and Strategy: Develop and communicate a concise product vision and strategy aligned with business goals and customer needs.
• Prioritization: Assess features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility to guide high-priority work.
• Requirements Gathering: Elicit and document product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for the development teams' clarity.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business leaders, customers, and development teams to align everyone with the product vision.
• Agile Framework: Drive the implementation of SAFe principles and champion agile methodologies.
• Roadmap Development: Contribute to the product roadmap outlining delivery schedules and milestones.
• Release Planning: Participate in release planning, prioritize features, conduct sprint planning, and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
• Metrics and Analysis: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for product success and identify areas for enhancement.
• Product Delivery: Work closely with development teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years as an agile product owner (Bachelor's degree required; an advanced degree with 5+ years of relevant work experience is acceptable).
• Expertise: Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role within an agile environment. Deep understanding of agile methodologies and the SAFe framework.
• Decision-making: Ability to prioritize and make data-driven decisions.
• Skills: Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, proficiency in Jira Software, Confluence, LucidCharts, Jira Align, AgilityHealth.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Certification: SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills are essential.

This role offers an opportunity to drive product success within a dynamic and collaborative environment, contributing to the ongoing evolution of cutting-edge solutions.