Product Owner

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Job Summary

The Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads a single product team developing a product as defined by the Product Complexity Model.

Responsibilities

• Defines and manages product roadmap

• Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team

• Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)

• Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs

• Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development

• Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features

• Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems

• Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Basic/Required Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree

• In addition to required degree, five (5) years minimum of related work experience

• In lieu of Bachelor's degree AND five (5) years minimum of related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND nine (9) years minimum related work experience

Desired Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action.

• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team

• Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate

• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships

• Understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases

• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs

• 5 or more years working in utility industry

• Experience as a Product Analyst

• Agile Product Owner certification

• "Black Belt" Six Sigma certification

• Experience with Jira

• Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment

• Experience with teams developing and shipping software

Working Conditions

• Hybrid – Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable commute to a Duke Energy facility.

Travel Requirements

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

Represented/Union Position

Visa Sponsored Position

Posting Expiration Date

All job postings expire at 12:01 AM on the posting expiration date.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

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