Associate Product Owner

About the role

When our square shaped burgers made their first sizzle on the scene more than 50 years ago, people knew our approach wasn’t like any other. Same goes for the way we support our employees. Our culture of openness, flexibility, and inclusiveness allows everybody to flourish in their own way. If you’re looking for a career where you can be part of the action as we continue to grow our iconic brand – We got you! The Associate Product Owner (APO) plays several key roles acting as the voice of the customer and advocating for the lifecycle of their products. In this role, you will help business owners realize the vision and align technology with key business objectives. You will drive progress on key initiatives through the execution of product roadmap(s) and management of backlog(s), and act as the link between the Product Manager and technical development teams. The APO will be on Wendy’s data management team working on enterprise data and analytics dashboard and reporting projects supporting our HR and Finance organizations. In this role, you will have the opportunity work on building out our next gen analytics and reporting applications on top of Looker and Big Query in the Google Cloud. A successful candidate in this role will demonstrate strong leadership, prioritization, and communication skills to consistently deliver outstanding results on-time and in line with established budget.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint backlog and implementation of new product initiatives.
• Prioritizes product backlog working against established roadmap and coordinating dependencies with other POs.
• Manages portfolio of IT initiatives to ensure proper prioritization and delivery of initiatives on time and on budget.
• Responsible for development of lean business case.
• Incorporates this knowledge when prioritizing features for releases.
• Makes tradeoff decisions between scope (value in expected ROI) and schedule (higher operating expense in longer release