Product Owner

T-Mobile Agile Team Backlog Manager

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Job Overview: This role is essential for managing the Agile team backlog to ensure alignment with product priorities and development efficiency. It involves defining, refining, and prioritizing user stories while maintaining the technical integrity of features for one or two Agile teams. The role serves as the primary liaison between development teams and stakeholders to clarify requirements and support sprint execution. Success is measured by the quality and readiness of user stories, sprint velocity, and effective coordination of dependencies. The work directly impacts the delivery of product features and the overall productivity of Agile teams within the organization.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build and prioritize the Agile team backlog to maintain two iterations worth of ready user stories and related work items
• Collaborate with Agile teams and stakeholders to write user stories with clear acceptance criteria and tests for up to two teams
• Review and accept completed user stories each sprint, ensuring they meet acceptance criteria and quality standards
• Coordinate user story and technical dependencies with other Product Owners during iterations and program increments
• Also responsible for other duties/projects as assigned by business management as needed

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience (Required)
• 4+ years of relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.(Required)
• 2 years experience in delivering software with Agile Scrum methodologies and other commonly used tools.(Required)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Agile Methodology (Required)
• Backlog Management (Required)
• Business Acumen (Required)
• JIRA Tool (Required)
• Product Management (Required)
• Scrum (Required)
• Stakeholder Management (Required)
• Strategic Thinking (Required)
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (Required)
• User Story (Required)

Licenses and Certifications:

• Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) preferred. (Required)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel: Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes DOT Regulated: DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

Base Pay Range: $80,900 - $146,000 Corporate Bonus Target: 10%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance.

At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out

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