Product Owner

Purpose of the Role

Responsible for maximizing the value of the product and work of the Development team. Accountable for managing the Product Backlog, including adding/removing/grooming items and defining their priorities. Communicates vision of the Product Manager to their scrum team and is responsible for prioritizing the product backlog to accomplish that vision. Participates in all Agile activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint review.

Responsibilities

• Chooses the right balance between feature development and technical(NFR) work to keep the product competitive.
• Available as needed to assist the scrum team with product questions and is given authority to make decisions about product features.
• A typical day at ACI for a Product Owner involves:
• Communicating the product vision to the agile team/s with support from product manager/Sr/Principal PO in the background.
• Setting priorities effectively, i.e. prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring that the team understands why the stories are in a specific order to maximize the team’s output.
• Elaborating/publishing user story requirements in a timely fashion.
• Clarifying user story requirements/answering team questions quickly and concisely.
• Creating clear, testable acceptance criteria for stories.
• Participating in scrum team meetings(grooming, planning, review, etc.).
• Drive the agile team/s to break stories down into smaller stories that comfortably fit in a sprint and have business value.
• Recommends process and quality improvements.
• Sharing product expertise with the agile team/s.
• Engaging internal stakeholders and external contacts as needed to provide direction to the team.
• Drives maximizing the business value and quality output of the agile teams.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience in software development tasks.
• 5+ years of related work experience.
• Experience in payments, bank or merchant technologies, or related is desirable.
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills.
• Strong ability to understand technical issues at a high level.
• Demonstrates strong accountability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate as a change agent, influencing and driving action organizationally.

Work Environment

• Standard work environment
• Majority of time spent on PC(Phys. Req.)
• Some Travel required

Core Capabilities

• Ensure Accountability: holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Results: consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Customer Focus: building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Cultivate Innovation: creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: building partnerships and working collaboratively with others.
• Courage: stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.