What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Partner's Consulting, Inc.?
Title: Product Owner III
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Type: Contract
Our client is seeking a Product Owner III, a dedicated member of the Scrum Team who represents the users and business, and ensures deliveries align with their requirements by demonstrating working software at the end of each sprint cycle while collaborating with other product owners, product managers, operations leadership and agile team members.
Key Accountabilities:
- Partner closely with business, technology, and architecture stakeholders to bring the business and architectural vision to life, delivering features in a lean, iterative, and nimble way.
- Drive the story elaboration process for your team, ensuring at least two sprints worth of ready stories.
- Define Acceptance Criteria for team stories.
- Prioritize the team backlog to best achieve goals and outcomes.
- Ensure that the team's User Story backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, showing what the team will work on next.
- Accept user stories completed by team throughout the sprint on behalf of customers based on acceptance criteria.
- Ensure the team understands items in the team backlog to the level needed.
- Regularly attend and actively participate in Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
- Take feedback from demos back to teams and work to incorporate into backlog and upcoming iterations.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and other Product Owners to define and coordinate feature development across other teams, where necessary.
Required Skills:
- Experience functioning as the PO for Scrum Teams (solely as PO, not hybrid).
- Experience writing and refining user stories for software teams.
- Experience with Agile tools such as Rally, Jira, etc.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) strongly preferred.
- Experience in the telecommunications industry a plus.