Sr Product Owner

About the role

Sr Product Owner (PO) will be a key part of our extended Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. Sr PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and the single point of contact for our Dev team and Customer team for user story details. This is a crucial role responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing our Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team. In this capacity the Sr PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. Drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two are essential to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / efficiency in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a Sr PO supports a single Agile (Scrum), but often supports multiple tams as part of sophisticated initiatives. Our Sr PO has a meaningful role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning). This role coordinates with other POs to align backlogs to complete large, cross-functional initiatives. In addition, mentoring other Product Owners to ensure they are growing in their career and job acumen. Our team is dynamic where no day is the same, and we are a diverse and inclusive team passionate about growth and innovation!

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the Agile team backlog with ready user stories to support continuous sprint execution.
• Collaborate with Agile teams and stakeholders to write user stories and define acceptance criteria and tests.
• Facilitate synchronization meetings with other product owners and mentor peers to enhance product ownership capabilities.
• Review and accept completed user stories to ensure they meet acceptance criteria and quality standards.
• Support product managers in creating and managing product vision and technical roadmaps related to scope.
• Coordinate with other product owners to align backlogs for large, cross-functional initiatives.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience.
• 4+ years relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.
• Advanced level understanding of customer experience.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Backlog Management
• Business Acumen
• Conflict Resolution
• Create User Stories
• Data Analysis
• Product Management
• Scrum
• Strategic Thinking
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Preferred certification

• CSPO – Scrum Product Owner certification

Compensation

Base Pay Range: $94,600 - $170,700. Corporate Bonus Target: 15%. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

Benefits

Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. Benefits include:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• 401(k)
• Employee stock grants and employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays (about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually)
• Paid parental and family leave
• Family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, and childcare subsidy
• Tuition assistance and college coaching
• Short- and long-term disability
• Voluntary AD&D coverage, accident coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance
• Mobile service & home internet discounts
• Pet insurance
• Commuter and transit programs