What are the responsibilities and job description for the Agile Product Owner position at SAE International?
Agile Product Owner
Location: Warrendale PA or RemoteSummary:
The Agile Product Owner leads requirements analysis, design, and documentation; assures delivery of complex software
applications by serving as principal subject matter expert in both business and technical domains; and plays the key leadership
role in assuring that staff's technology usage and our software development practices are aligned with PRI's current and future
business needs.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
- Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
- Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
- Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
- Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
- Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
- Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features
- Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
- Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
- Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
- Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
- Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
- Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns.
Requirements
* 7 years or more experience in this role or a related discipline
* Exquisite brokering skills: regularly achieve consensus amongst departments
* In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
* Experience with an Agile tool such as Rally or Jira
* Demonstrated project management skills and familiarity with project management, documentation, and visualization software
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
EOE, including disability/vets
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