Product Owner
Description
Description
Lead the visioning, roadmap, and prioritization of digital products in a fast-paced Omni-channel Retail environment. This role will provide thought leadership, track development, and manage lifecycle of transformational software products for eCommerce retail applications, and other digital initiatives.
This is a hybrid position with expectation on-site in Frederick, MD 2-3 days a week.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
- Leads development of the vision and roadmap for multiple digital/software products.
- Orchestrates/bridges the business and IT teams to obtain, confirm, and refine the business intent, requirements, and value.
- Transforms business intent and requirements into well-documented, end-to-end technical product solutions and experiences that are best-in-class.
- Owns/drives achievement of technical product objectives and business value. Includes executing scrum master duties across multiple internal and external teams for all assigned products and roadmaps.
- Communicates status, product metrics, risks, and feedback to leadership daily/weekly as assigned.
- Reviews product vision, roadmap, feature set, backlog, and customer feedback with leadership to refine priorities.
- Oversees all stages of product creation including design and development
- Coordinates with teams and leads user acceptance testing (UAT) and product demos
- Experience leading through complex and/or competing priorities and negotiating win-win outcomes
- Proven track record of defining end-to-end/complete user journeys & experiences; including quick mockups/prototypes
- Ability to manage cross-functional teams through conflict and successfully drive outcomes
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
To join our band you will need the following experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably in Business Administration, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field.
- 2 - 4 years of Product Owner experience
- 2+ years of in-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
- 2+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams
- Excellent oral/written and executive presentation skills a must
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams in a matrix environment
- Experience writing user stories and following the development process through user story acceptance
- Experience with Altlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence) or similar tools
- Skilled proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Ability to work and maintain professional demeanor while managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Must be well-organized
- Comfortable working flexible hours to coordinate with multiple time zones where required.
- Agile certification: CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP, PSPO desired
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