Product Owner – Full Stack
| Company | Global Payments |
|---|---|
| Location | Troy, MI, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of total professional work experience preferably in IT and Business
- Professional experience developing requirements to meet business needs
- Well-rounded business design and technical acumen which will enable productive discussions with sales, designers and engineers
- Bachelor’s degree in Software engineering, business management or related disciplines
- Experience with Agile/Scrum SDLC and lean software development practices
- Knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle, with an emphasis on requirements elicitation, requirements and design modeling, user story elaboration, documentation and communication
Responsibilities
- Owns and influences the vision and definition of the product
- Partner with designers, analysts, and technical teams to translate customer needs into workable technology solutions
- Defines and conveys the vision to the team(s) in order to address client requirements to ensure a successful product based on business value
- Drives the creation of and the integrity of the product backlog
- Leads grooming of the product backlog and ensures the backlog is correctly prioritized based on business value
- Influences plans and strategies to achieve the product objectives as related to the product area
- Responsible for ensuring the development teams are focused on the right priorities during the development process
- Primary point of contact for questions from the teams and is empowered to make decisions
- Accepts delivery of working product from the development teams
- Socializes the delivery of business value and outcomes of the iteration to the stakeholders and clients
- Researches, learns and implements technologies to develop a background for successful product definition
- Works with Product Managers, UX designers, engineers, and customer counterparts to design and deliver new products or capabilities in an iterative, continuous fashion
- Develops detailed business requirements, user stories, screen mock-ups, flow diagrams, etc. outlining the solution to be implemented with target personas, motivators and expectations
- Works closely with all stakeholders to communicate customer needs, adjust requirements based on technical feedback, prioritize requirements, and manage to change priorities
- Performs an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of sprint / release goals
- Participates in project retrospectives and provide feedback to improve products and development execution
- Performs other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time
- Occasional travel required
Preferred Qualifications
- Training and certification as a professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or as a certified scrum product owner (CSPO) a plus
- Driven, creative, and results-oriented applicants are highly preferred
- Experience with Agile software development tooling, eg. Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha!, etc.