Product Owner

Product Owner

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Product Owner to join our team in Alpharetta, Georgia (US-GA), United States (US).

Once you are here, you will:

• Build business cases with our clients to prioritize features by understanding the client business, the market, and users.
• Collaborate with the designers, architects, and engineers to iterate on the MVP scope. Work with senior product managers and business to translate roadmap into prioritized backlog.
• Participate in planning and sprint sessions. Facilitate detailed product road mapping, release planning, sprint planning sessions, retrospectives, and demos.
• Manage product backlog with well-refined user stories that are easy for the engineers to estimate.
• Identify the audience, user groups, needs and feature requirements. Develop feature and user story requirements with acceptance criteria while acting as final release gatekeeper for new functionality.
• Align user needs and business value while streamlining and championing delivery channels for product delivery. Includes technical and go-to-market delivery.
• Coordinate dependencies between different teams and organizations.
• Provide relevant product metrics to gauge team progress with a continual focus on improvement.
• Prepare and deliver verbally and orally effective communications of progress and status for both internal and client teams.
• Perform hands-on work, including analysis, design, testing, change management, as needed by the team.
• Contribute content to the Product Management practice on a quarterly basis.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of product management experience, preferably in enterprise or consumer software
• 8+ years of experience working in a Product Owner capacity.
• 5+ years of experience decomposing features into user stories for software products.
• 5+ years creating and maintaining a product metrics artifact.
• 5+ years establishing goals and objectives for your product or capability.
• 5+ years of experience using one or more of the following Agile Lifecycle Management tools (Jira, ADO, etc.,) to create features, stories, and roadmaps.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Scrum Master or Product Owner Certification.
• Experience in software development-based enterprise environment and software delivery.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Ideal Mindset:

• Accountable Partner. You stay on track with your goals and take the necessary actions to achieve them.
• Collaborator. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Curious Mind. You ask questions, listen, observe, and have disruption tolerance.
• Honest Challenger. You understand, use, and build your competencies to navigate the workplace and contribute in a meaningful way.