Our Direct client is looking for a Sr. Product Owner to join their Dallas, TX team on a 6 months contract to hire basis. It's 100% REMOTE Job.
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The Product Owner will partner with the Engineering organizations to understand engineering needs, then lead the delivery team in supporting the buildout of Cloud platforms. They will evolve the experience to drive product requirements and support development. The role includes contributing to and overseeing implementation in an agile environment in all phases of the software development lifecycle, with distributed cross-functional teams to deliver in a way that meets the priorities of stakeholders and clients. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating with indirect influence, has excellent interpersonal skills, acclimates well to change, and is objective and detail-oriented.
*** Must have: ***
- 5+ years experience with AWS, Product Owner experience, Software Development life cycle, Communication skills and a self starter.
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Qualifications
Experience:
- Work with stakeholders and the Business to understand the strategy and the 12-18 month plan and to evolve the milestones based on feedback and teams' capacity.
- Provide the vision and strategy to the delivery team, and be the voice of the customer.
- Communicate plans across delivery teams to ensure the proper prioritization, sequencing, and dependency mitigation.
- Prioritize the backlog for the current rolling three months of work, and have conversations with business and product partners regarding trade-offs when needed.
- Collaborate with leadership to ensure operational communications, marketing, and launch materials (new and ongoing) are planned and executed.
- Responsible for day-to-day product responsibilities, including writing and prioritizing stories, hosting estimation and grooming sessions with the delivery team, and facilitating team standups, retrospectives, and other agile meetings/outings.
- Collaborate with development team to estimate and plan sprints, releases, and product increments.
- Define clear, concise, and testable user stories, including acceptance criteria.
- Review and accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet the defined acceptance criteria.
- Execute the product roadmap to deliver solutions that delight our customers and maximize their efficiency and ability to provide revenue-generating solutions.
- Help technical research options and identify data sources, logic, and rules by working with the delivery and other teams to learn their offerings and availability.
- Develop new solutions and features based on product and business objectives.
- Provide clear direction to the delivery team through defined product priorities, schedules, and dependencies.
- Work with team members spanning delivery teams to execute successful delivery of product features.
- Identify and address product issues, bugs, and enhancements in a timely manner.
- Be a champion for the product, the delivery team, and their goals.
- Provide feedback to delivery team members as needed to support the team's health.
- Work with the delivery team and product analytics to ensure the ability to measure and track the value created by the solutions and features delivered.
- Gather and analyze user feedback and data to drive continuous product improvement.
- Identify critical use cases and KPIs to evaluate the product's success and performance.
- Understand how customers utilize solutions and the areas of opportunity to facilitate prioritization and focus on the most impactful features.
- Interact with customers regularly to enhance knowledge of the customers' needs and opportunities.
- Be available to respond quickly to client issues and help the team to problem solve.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.
- Work with the delivery team and product analytics to ensure the ability to measure and track the value created by the solutions and features delivered.
- Understand how customers utilize solutions and the areas of opportunity to facilitate prioritization and focus on the most impactful features.
- Interact with customers regularly to enhance knowledge of the customers' needs and opportunities.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.
- Be available to respond quickly to client issues and help the team to problem solve.
- 5+ years' experience in product management, product software delivery, software quality assurance or related functions.
- Experience with Agile teams and the ability to work with product and technology resources across different organizations.
- Knowledgeable with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
- Work efficiently, sometimes with incomplete information, to close gaps and meet the needs of internal stakeholders and customers alike.
- Self-starter who proactively seeks to understand the client experience journey and associated pain points.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to solve problems and make trade-offs.
- Ability to build strong working relationships within and across delivery teams.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles.
- Business acumen and customer-oriented mindset.