Technical Product Owner

Job Details:

Job Title: Technical Product Owner

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Minneapolis, MN On-Site

Job Description:

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8+ years of experience as Technical Product Engineer responsible for co-development Product vision/roadmap, translating them to Epics, feature and stories and delivering value incrementally in every sprint.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in running Agile/SCRUM ceremonial, effectively hosting and executing annual and quarterly planning activities with IT, POs and significant stakeholders.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Software Development, RDMS, SQL, PL/SQL, etc.
• Has at least one work experience in a product company or a product startup (preferred).
• Acquainted with any Data Analytics tools like Power, Tableau, etc.
• Hands-on working experience with SQL queries usage in relational databases.
• Manage stake holder expectations and ensure software development process lifecycle is being followed as per standards.

Responsibilities:

• Manage each project's scope and timeline.
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups.
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests.
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur.
• Help teams implement changes effectively.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity.
• Help build a productive environment where team members 'own' the product and enjoy working on it.
• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products.
• Collaborate with Digital Business partners and Vendors to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer.
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks.
• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Partner with Business to develop, own, and execute product roadmap.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.
• Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
• Define and execute go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and sales have what they need to be successful.
• Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.
• Responsible for conducting sophisticated and detailed research of existing processes, systems, and desired objectives to meet the goals/intent of the assigned products.
• Work with Product Manager, and SMEs to prioritize feature development, based on the business value.
• Elicit and create initial epics/features and elaborate into user scenarios that clearly describe the functional and non-functional requirements.
• Acquainted with working with software engineers to create and manage relevant entities of agile development process.
• Deliver business requirements via artifacts such as epics, features, scenarios, acceptance criteria, process flows, wireframe diagrams, interaction diagrams, mockups/demos, etc.
• Collaborate with a multi-functional team inside a Scrum framework.
• Conduct work sessions and document new features, requirements, and strategies.
• Perform testing, track bugs, enhancements and ensure issues are resolved before promoting to production environments.
• Able to work on multiple initiatives and balance constantly evolving priorities.
• Use data and analysis to convey solution impact and to support process driven solutions.
• Develop business logic and critical metrics for incorporation into decision support models and tools.
• Construct problem statement including problem description and improvement measures.
• Drill down beyond the problem surface to understand root cause.
• logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical, and understandable business reason.
• Supply guidance to project planning and effort estimation within scope.
• Support the identification of risks and mitigation approaches.

Collaborate with business unit leaders to develop and maintain internal customer relationships.