Sr Product Owner Integration Services, Belén, Costa Rica | BeBridgestone

Acerca de Bridgestone

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), con sede en Nashville, Tennessee, y Bridgestone Europa, Medio Oriente y África (BSEMEA), con sede en Bruselas, Bélgica, operan colectivamente como la región estratégica “Bridgestone West”. Esta región atiende las necesidades comerciales estratégicas de equipos en América, Europa, Medio Oriente y África. BSAM y BSEMEA son subsidiarias de Bridgestone Corporation, con sede mundial en Japón. Bridgestone y sus filiales desarrollan, fabrican y comercializan una amplia gama de productos y soluciones Bridgestone, Firestone y marcas asociadas para abordar las necesidades de una amplia gama de clientes e industrias.

Job Category

Information Technology

Position Summary

The Product Owner is a key member of the product leadership team within the API Services organization. This role is responsible for owning the product development process and enabling Agile delivery by partnering closely with business stakeholders, system architects, Scrum Masters, and development squads.

The Product Owner brings a strong understanding of Agile principles, ceremonies, and delivery practices, and plays an active role in helping Agile product teams operate effectively, remove delivery friction, and deliver high-value outcomes alingned to business objectives.

This position requires the ability to translate business needs into a prioritized backlog while fostering strong collaboration, transparency, and alignment across cross-functional Agile teams.

Responsibilities

Product Ownership
• Reviews and contributes to the product vision, Roadmap, and content presentations.
• Partners with business stakeholders and sponsors to identify and refine new product capabilities and features, ensuring the right work is delivered in the right sequence based on business value.
• Acts as a strategic decision maker for scope, prioritization and sequencing of work.

Agile Delivery Enablement and Team Success
• Serves as an Agile practitioner and partner to the delivery team, reinforing Agile pricinciples and best practices to support predictable, high quality delivery.
• Helps team succeed by ensuring work is well-defined, understood, and sequenced appropriately, reducing ambiguity and delivery risk.
• Proactively identifies delivery impediments related to scope, priorities, or dependencies and works with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Supports a culture of continuous improvement by participating in retrospectives and driving actionable follow-ups.

Customer Focus: Product Backlog Refinement & Prioritization
• Responsible and accountable for all User Stories, Enablers, and Spikes for their assigned development team's release.
• Product backlog creation – Work closely with business stakeholders and translate user requirements into the product user story backlog.
• Leads backlog refinement sessions with input from System Architect, Developers, and key business stakeholders to ensure alignment, clarity, and readiness for delivery.
• Prioritizes the product backlog and iteration plans in collaboration with stakeholders and Agile team members, balancing balue, risk, dependencies and capacity.
• Defines non-functional requirements and aligns supporting technologies needed for successful solution execution.
• Understands and plans for enabler work, collaborating with Solution and System Architects to inform sequencing and architectural decision making.

Product Delivery
• Leads the development effort by conveying the vision to an Agile Delivery Team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value
• Ability to work across other development teams to coordinate and address work efforts
• Participates actively in sprint demos and iteration retrospectives, incorporating feedback into backlog refinement and future planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. in Management or related Business discipline
• English B2
• Agile Experience, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Azure DevOps
• Experience with API delivery and or enterprise software development methodology preferred
• Reviews and contributes to the product vision, Roadmap, and content presentations.
• Partners with business stakeholders and sponsors to identify and refine new product capabilities and features, ensuring the right work is delivered in the right sequence based on business value.
• Acts as a strategic decision maker for scope, prioritization and sequencing of work.
• Serves as an Agile practitioner and partner to the delivery team, reinforing Agile pricinciples and best practices to support predictable, high quality delivery.
• Helps team succeed by ensuring work is well-defined, understood, and sequenced appropriately, reducing ambiguity and delivery risk.
• Proactively identifies delivery impediments related to scope, priorities, or dependencies and works with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Supports a culture of continuous improvement by participating in retrospectives and driving actionable follow-ups.
• Responsible and accountable for all User Stories, Enablers, and Spikes for their assigned development team's release.
• Product backlog creation – Work closely with business stakeholders and translate user requirements into the product user story backlog.
• Leads backlog refinement sessions with input from System Architect, Developers, and key business stakeholders to ensure alignment, clarity, and readiness for delivery.
• Prioritizes the product backlog and iteration plans in collaboration with stakeholders and Agile team members, balancing value, risk, dependencies and capacity.
• Defines non-functional requirements and aligns supporting technologies needed for successful solution execution.
• Understands and plans for enabler work, collaborating with Solution and System Architects to inform sequencing and architectural decision making.
• Leads the development effort by conveying the vision to an Agile Delivery Team, outlining and prioritizing work based on business value
• Ability to work across other development teams to coordinate and address work efforts
• Participates actively in sprint demos and iteration retrospectives, incorporating feedback into backlog refinement and future planning.
• Experience with API delivery and or enterprise software development methodology preferred.
• Travel Availability

Qué ofrecemos como compañía

En Bridgestone, lo que realmente importa es generar oportunidades de co-creación, mientras fomentamos tu curiosidad y creatividad para hacer que la movilidad sea más segura, eficiente y sostenible para las generaciones presentes y futuras.

Cualquiera que sea el rol que desempeñes, cuando representas a Bridgestone, eres un/una integrante valioso/valiosa de equipo y parte de nuestra misión más amplia de “Servir a la Sociedad con Calidad Superior”. Te ofrecemos más que solo un pago competitivo; también te proporcionaremos:

• Una experiencia de incorporación atractiva y de apoyo para garantizar una transición sin problemas a nuestro equipo.

• La oportunidad de desarrollarte y crecer, a través de capacitación y mentoría continua.

• Actividades de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa.

• Un entorno de trabajo verdaderamente global, dinámico y desafiante.

• Agilidad y efectividad en el trabajo y la vida personal y su bienestar a largo plazo.

• Un equipo diverso e inclusivo.

Bridgestone se enorgullece de ser un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Es nuestra política considerar para el empleo a todas las personas independientemente de su edad, color, origen, discapacidad física o mental, raza, religión, género, orientación sexual, identidad y/o expresión de género, información genética, o cualquier otra característica protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales.

En Bridgestone, siempre eres Libre para Ser

Creemos que las personas solo pueden brindar un servicio y una calidad superiores a los demás cuando pueden traer su yo más auténtico al trabajo. Creemos en defender todas las perspectivas, individualidades y equipos porque entendemos la importancia de ver el mundo y nuestro negocio a través de diferentes perspectivas. Estamos formando un equipo tan diverso como el mundo al que servimos.

Así que, muéstranos quién eres, porque quien eres es lo que necesitamos

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