Product Managr

Job Description

The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that a development team (pod) is creating value for the organization through the delivery of customer-focused product increments. This entails aligning with other Product Owners and senior management to follow a product vision, creating and maintaining a prioritized product backlog, managing delivery blockers, and continuously assessing customer feedback. The Product Owner should always consider how to maximize value, assessing how the product or the delivery process can be continuously improved, contribute to a positive work environment and ensure that work embodies the Agile principles of transparency, collaboration and engagement.

• Create and maintain a product backlog and continuously re-prioritize user stories that will provide the most customer or end user value.
• Continuously align with senior management on the product delivery roadmap, defined Minimum Marketable Features or Minimum Viable Products and release cadence.
• Participate in scrum or Kanban events (e.g. stand-ups, retrospectives), expressing new ideas for improving product value or delivery efficiency and sharing with leadership as appropriate.
• Provide user story design, development and completion oversight, accepting or rejecting user stories based on the agreed upon Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria.
• Proactively raise issues that impede the efficient delivery of customer-focused increments.
• Responsible for defect management and prioritization.
• Consider development team and stakeholder feedback in backlog management, facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders representing competing priorities.
• Understand the internal business and technical environment, proactively defining, aligning or integrating with relevant stakeholders, shared services control groups.
• Lead the submission and discussion on the Quarterly Business Review, with respect to their product.
• Proactively manage business stakeholders to obtain inputs needed for product development in a timely manner.
• Monitor the regulatory environment and partner with senior management to consider changes to product strategy as needed.
• Actively coordinate and engage in risk, quality and/or business testing management.
• Actively communicate with business, technology and senior management regarding product changes and backlog priorities.
• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues or points of interest.
• Use sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify solutions.
• Communicate difficult concepts; convert information to compelling business context and advice; influence and gain alignment across increasingly senior stakeholders.
• Work autonomously as the lead and guide others within area of expertise.

• Undergraduate degree and/or product certificate.
• 7+ years relevant experience.
• 3+ years Product Owner or Agile related delivery experience.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and project management experience are considered an asset.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications or experience operating in scaled agile delivery are considered an asset.

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ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters.

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