Agile Product Owner

Location:
Charlotte, NC/Atlanta, GA (Any one location)

Duration:
6 months (Possibility of Extension)
Pay Range:
$70/hr - $80/hr

Standout Skills:
Agile Coaching, Agile Delivery, Agile Requirement Management, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Business Requirements Analysis, GitHub Copilot, LucidChart, MS- Copilot
Primary Responsibilities:

• Manages, prioritizes, and assesses the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc., including deciding to create, fix, or defer at the project level.
• Leads sprint planning and demonstration sessions with technical and business analysts.
• Serves as the business requirements expert on an agile team, translating business and technical requirements into epics, features, and stories for agile development cycles.
• Serves as the day-to-day decision maker and provides continual business guidance for an Agile team.
• Engages with line of business partners to source and prioritize requirements.
• Defines business requirements for products and programs, prioritizing needs and required features.
• Facilitates user acceptance testing before the release of application updates.
• Serves as the content authority on an Agile team by maintaining a prioritized backlog of stories and providing continual business guidance for the execution team.
• Works with management and other stakeholders to understand and validate business strategy and vision, and customer needs.
• Creates prioritized stories based on program backlog features and strategic priorities set by business stakeholders.
• Partners with sponsors, stakeholders, and Information Technology to facilitate, define, and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks and controls for the improvement area.
• Provides just-in-time story elaboration to designers, business analysts, developers, testers, and others to develop, execute, and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field, and ten (10) years of relevant experience in process improvement, project delivery, business/requirements analysis, or business operations/product line.

Preferences:

• SAFe Practitioner (SP), SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Manager certification.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks under pressure.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Experience in Process Engineering methodologies and Change Management practices.
• Familiarity or working knowledge with multiple technical software delivery methodologies (i.e., Agile, Waterfall).
• Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to formulate. recommendations, solve business problems, and drive business improvements.
• Strong customer service orientation.

*The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually - as applicable.*