Product Owner
Broadcom · Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area · 3 wk ago
MarketingFull-time
Product Owner Core Responsibilities
- Works closely with R&D development teams to maximise the value delivered to the customers
- Understands how the Enterprise backlog model operates with Epics, Capabilities, Features, and Stories
- Effectively communicates with both internal and external stakeholders
- Establishes, prioritises, and helps sequence backlog items based on defined strategies, events, and dependencies with other teams
- Ensures the common understanding of backlog items, their acceptance criteria and alignment on definition of done with R&D scrum teams
- Cross-coordinates with other Product Owners and cross-functional roles throughout the development and delivery process, focusing on their immediate solution team
- Independently resolves complex projects, issues, and challenges encountered
Team Backlog Ownership
- The principal responsibility of the PO is to maintain a prioritised, transparent, and straightforward backlog of work items that align with the product strategy and enable maximising the product value
- Refines the backlog items with R&D teams to reach a common understanding with sufficient detail for the team to work on for the current and next iteration
Customer Engagement
- Continually iterates on solutions by asking customers for their feedback
- Collaborates with PM and other cross-functional roles to create opportunities to visit customers and observe users in their environment
- Builds and strengthens customer relationships
- Regularly leads projects requiring coordination with other functions or teams while providing guidance to less experienced team members
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a minimum 8 years of related experience or Masters Degree in Engineering and 6+ years of related experience
- Proven ability to own, prioritize, and groom a product backlog while translating high-level roadmap items into actionable User Stories and Enablers
- Experience in breaking down complex technical requirements into concrete outcomes with clear Acceptance Criteria
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, fostering a high-performance culture focused on quality and delivery
- Expert Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated success in managing complex relationships with diverse stakeholders, including customers, executive leadership, and engineering
Desired Skills & Qualifications
- Mainframe App & Dev Ecosystem: Understanding of how complex mainframe applications are holistically composed across Enterprise COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and Endevor repositories to drive context-rich application mapping
- Developer Tooling: Experience guiding the development of modern developer interfaces, specifically VS Code extensions, CLI tools, and CI/CD pipeline integrations
- SCM & Pipelines: Strong understanding of modern collaboration workflows using GitHub, plus knowledge of mainframe SCMs (Endevor highly desirable) and automated deployment pipelines
- AI & LLM Integration: Passion for and knowledge of AI/LLMs in corporate environments, including leveraging Model Context Protocols (MCPs) to securely enhance model context with mainframe data
Pay & Benefits
Annual base salary range: $104,100 - $166,500
Eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.