Senior Automation Product Owner

Job Description

A Senior Automation Product Owner is a crucial role on an application development team, helping to transform a high-level vision into detailed functional requirements, create product user stories, and accept the completed deliverable within a given iteration. That person is the primary contact responsible for ensuring the development team works on the tasks intended to address specific product scope and capabilities. The candidate should be motivated to take on challenges in a growing and dynamic environment and be detail-oriented with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management.

The Senior Product Owner role will focus on leading client interactions with Product Managers and business stakeholders, understanding both client business requirements as well as end-user functional requirements, and may manage multiple product owners that have delivery targeted towards a single product or solution. In situations where a Senior Product Owner is supporting multiple delivery streams, that person has sole responsibility and ownership of the product in its entirety.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute as a core member of the product team or scrum team to convey functional requirements, create/groom user stories, prioritize the product backlog, and engage in testing efforts.
• Partner with stakeholders, clients, and product managers to understand the requirements, capabilities, and user experience.
• Ensure engagement and ongoing involvement from the cross-functional team (Sales, TechOps, Customer Success, Marketing, etc.) to provide a continuous feedback loop into the product development process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, clients, and product managers to align product roadmaps against known dependencies.
• Define, prioritize, and own the product backlog to reflect the solution scope, vision, and roadmap.
• Conduct the final user acceptance testing and sign-off of a given user story upon completion of development of requirements.
• Participate in daily development team standups and iteration sprint planning sessions to represent the product requirements and respond to any questions regarding the feature set.
• Participate in weekly scrum meetings.
• Organize and facilitate presentations to business stakeholders for product demos.

Technical Skills

• Experience with identifying and reporting on key performance indicators to help visualize the efficacy of product enhancements
• Ability to define high-level business objectives and drive product roadmaps
• Comfort engaging with executive stakeholders in dialogue regarding product vision and business enablement
• Expertise in product backlog tools such as Rally and Jira
• Expertise in collaboration suites, including Confluence and SharePoint
• Familiarity with UX knowledge and principles is beneficial
• Experience with detailed roadmapping techniques (MoSCoW, Pareto, Kano Model)

Qualifications

• Education - Bachelor's Degree
• 5 to 7 years of working experience in like field
• Strong communication skills
• Detailed oriented
• 2 to 5 years of supervisory experience
• Experience in agile and Scrum development organizations
• Certification - Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) required
• Working knowledge of product backlog tools such as Rally and Jira
• Experience with Platforms like Appian, Pega, ServiceNow, RPA is required
• Working knowledge of collaboration suites including Confluence and SharePoint
• Ability to translate high-level business objectives into detailed functional requirements
• Familiarity with UX knowledge and principles is beneficial
• Wealth management, financial services, and mobile applications are a plus
• Understanding of application-related projects and changes
• Lead calls with business stakeholders independently
• Ability to break down a product feature into stories
• Experience in identifying and creating artifacts needed to represent the business requirements for a product (example: process flows, stories, interaction diagrams, matrices)
• Experience creating templates for requirements artifacts (example: process flows, stories, interaction diagrams, matrices) that junior resources can leverage to produce deliverables
• You understand how to write complete user stories that can be picked up for development with minimal changes.
• You are able to consult with and collaborate with developers on how to break stories down
• Aptitude to understand product architecture and technical components
• Experience conducting product demos
• Experience conducting product user training
• You understand agile principles and can lead a scrum meeting when necessary
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