What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Ztek Consulting?
Job Role: Product Owner
Location: Denver, CO/Chicago, IL/Washington, DC
Job Description:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, software developers, designers, quality assurance, and stakeholders to define, prioritize, and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
- Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it is well-organized, up-to-date, and aligned with the overall product vision and business goals.
- Translate high-level business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, ensuring that they contain well-defined acceptance criteria and align with technical capabilities.
- Act as the primary point of contact between product management, technology lead and development team, ensuring that communication flows seamlessly and that stakeholder needs are effectively addressed.
- Regularly engage with product management, stakeholders developers and qa team to gather feedback, capture user insights, and validate that the product is meeting their expectations.
- With some guidance from technology lead, make informed decisions on scope, backlog priorities, and trade-offs while considering factors such as project timelines, technical constraints, dependencies, risks
- Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint review sessions, PI planning documentation, Jira input, Jira cleanliness / completeness, & collaboration with the development team to ensure a clear understanding of the work to be done.
- Responsible for owning the creation and refinement of stories with the team to ensure there are enough ready stories to load the next 2-3 sprints.
- Provide guidance and support to the development team, clarifying requirements, resolving queries, and ensuring a shared understanding of the user stories.
- Continuously monitor project progress, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and ensure that the product is delivering the intended value to customers.
- Actively participate in retrospectives to identify areas for improvement within the development process and take actions to enhance team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, leveraging this knowledge to identify opportunities for product enhancement and innovation.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, anticipating and addressing concerns, and ensuring a positive collaborative working environment.
Required Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience as a Software Product Owner supporting a software development environment.
- Experience using the SAFe framework or having a PO/PM SAFe certification
- Expert with translating high-level business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, ensuring that they contain well-defined acceptance criteria.
- Must have expert ability to document detailed requirements, minutes, action items, manage incoming requests and outgoing communications
- Expert ability to track, manage and resolve dependencies, blockers, issues, risks, clearly document and articulate action item owners and open items in need of attention
- Strong organization and facilitation skills, including the ability to prioritize work and drive out deadlines
- Must work well with internal and external team members, have ability to manage and resolve conflicts collaboratively and with patience
- Strong analytical skills and drive to take initiative, be proactive to collect details needed to address blockers, drive out issues for the team.
- Detail-oriented self-starter with ability to deliver high-quality software products and exceptional user experiences.
- Advanced experience in JIRA, Confluence, Release Management Tool.
- Experience building dashboards and filtering / lookups in Jira.
- Excellent written oral/ communication and presentation skills
- Hands-on experience with managing large scale agile, technical projects and executive communications
- Able to work independently with limited supervision
- Experience working in Agile development process, Agile methodologies, and deep understanding of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certification(s) related to Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) is a plus.
- Previous experience in cyber security, specifically vulnerability management or application security testing is advantageous.
- Experience with Jira, .NET and python development is a strong asset.
- Experience writing detailed technical requirements.
Salary : $95,000 - $120,000