Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner at OneDigital is an onsite role in Atlanta, GA focused on translating product strategy and vision into prioritized delivery work across agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate client needs into actionable product direction
• Review product strategies with stakeholders and align priorities to enterprise direction
• Act as the “keeper and communicator of the vision” by turning business-aligned strategy into daily team guidance
• Manage and prioritize the ART (Agile Release Train) backlog
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and user story elaboration
• Clean and translate user-submitted requests into technical backlog items
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to maximize value aligned with product strategy
• Connect with customers to define product strategy, vision, and roadmaps
• Define and communicate key product performance indicators and track business results
• Define the product roadmap based on business outcomes
• Work closely with product delivery teams and regularly test the latest daily or weekly build
• Coordinate with stakeholders, app/devs, and delivery partners on testing and QA for completed work
• Support release planning by leading product release plans and setting expectations for new functionality delivery
• Communicate released enhancements or major product announcements to the business
• Mitigate impediments impacting successful completion of release and sprint goals
• Facilitate agile execution by participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Serve as a Scrum Master by facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Coordinate and collaborate with other Senior Product Owners
• Align product and platform architectures with business, data, and IT architects for agreed nonfunctional requirements
• Support operational readiness by engaging the right business stakeholders to accept, use, and/or support new functionality prior to production deployment
• Establish and maintain relationships with key business and technology stakeholders, facilitating alignment and dynamic reprioritization decisions
• Understand technical issues well enough to decide when to prioritize new features versus reduce technical debt or improve resiliency

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years (or more) of relevant experience in IT and business/industry to understand the customer role and what they value
• 3 or more years in diverse roles with increasing responsibilities across business and IT (business-only career acceptable if it included sufficient technology focus for effective delivery-team communication)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience; SAFe certification a plus
• Dynamics 365 and/or Salesforce functional experience with team leadership responsibilities
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and the Scrum framework
• Experience working with APIs
• MuleSoft experience is a plus
• Experience/knowledge of reporting with Power BI and SQL querying
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, and Microsoft 365 architecture
• Insurance brokerage experience is a plus
• Demonstrable knowledge of the product management discipline
• Basic familiarity with design thinking, and lean and agile software delivery
• More than three years working in or with lean and agile software delivery teams (preferred)
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to work with clients and partners at a strategic level
• Ability to work effectively across a wide range of teams while driving product success without breaking lean/agile self-organizing culture

Technologies

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Scrum
• Dynamics 365
• Salesforce
• APIs
• MuleSoft
• Power BI
• SQL
• Azure
• Microsoft 365