Senior Product Owner

Responsibilities 

• Agile Leadership:
  • Lead and coach Agile teams in the adoption and consistent application of Agile principles and practices.
  • Serve as a role model for Agile values and behaviors, fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

• Scrum Master Responsibilities:
  • Act as a Scrum Master for one or more Agile teams, facilitating all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, etc.).
  • Remove impediments to the team's progress, ensuring a smooth and efficient development process.
  • Work closely with Product Owners to prioritize backlogs and ensure alignment with business goals. 

• Delivery Management:
  • Collaborate with product and project managers to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Monitor and report project progress, ensuring that timelines and milestones are met.
  • Manage risks and issues, and proactively address challenges to maintain project momentum. 

• Team Empowerment:
  • Foster a high-performing team environment, encouraging collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
  • Empower team members to take ownership of tasks and make decisions within the Agile framework. 

• Continuous Improvement:
  • Facilitate and participate in retrospectives to identify areas for improvement and implement action plans.
  • Promote a culture of continuous learning and adaptation, encouraging the team to embrace change and innovation. 

• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, communicate project updates, and manage expectations.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between business goals and technical deliverables. 

• Training and Coaching:
  • Provide training and coaching on Agile methodologies to team members and stakeholders.
  • Foster a culture of knowledge-sharing and mentorship within the organization. 

Responsibilities

• Work with customer and stakeholders, agile leaders, architects, tech leads and engineering leadership to develop and maintain product vision
• Inform and execute against product vision, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Work with stakeholders and users to turn initiatives into user stories, and maintain a healthy and prioritized backlog with appropriately sized epics and stories.
• Work with internal and external customers to prioritize development requests for the product
• Prioritize feature delivery with product managers and engineering leads and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals
• Work closely with the team to develop a clear definition of ready and definition of done.
• Define and articulate personas, user journeys and key success metrics for the product
• Work with development teams to address questions/concerns during sprints
• Lead and communicate the release plan, advocate for the value of the product release
• Constantly re-prioritizes the product backlog based on customers feedback and leadership direction
• Provide clear direction conducive to shipping high quality products.
• Define and collaborate around clear acceptance criteria and validate user stories as done.
• Act as a key player across different ceremonies around the team: daily standup, user story refinement, sprint planning, team demos, and retrospectives.
• Proactively engage with all areas of the organization to identify interdependencies, mutually beneficial goals, and influencing leadership.
• Work closely with the scrum master to set up scalable and reliable ways to measure success and mechanisms to detect issues before they become risks.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in some capacity with a software development team; 3 years as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
• Holds a relevant certification from a recognized organization, such as Certified Product Owner
• Creative, analytical, experimental, and a team player.
• Can effectively and confidently communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in written form
• Capable of collaborating with multiple stakeholders both internal and external to the organization.
• Enjoys and excels at problem-solving related to processes, workflow, communication and team dynamics
• Knows how to quantify value and possesses a strong framework to justify backlog prioritization.
• Great communicator that can inspire the team by conveying the vision and business value.
• Working understanding of Scrum, and familiarity with at least one agile scaling framework.
• Experience with common office productivity tools (Office, SharePoint, Outlook, Google Docs)
• Expected to work onsite in Tampa, FL Monday - Thursday. 

This job posting will expire on Monday May 13th, 2024.