Job Summary:

The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the product’s development, ensuring that it aligns with the vision, meets customer needs and delivers value. Acts as a liaison between the development team and the customer. Addition responsibility includes defining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring the project team delivers a valuable product to our customers.

Job Description:

Product Strategy

Support strategic product roadmap that outlines the key initiatives, features and enhancements planned for the product over time.
Articulate the product vision and value to our customers
Understand the market trends and customer needs to shape the product direction

Project Delivery

Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline, deliverables, and scope management
Responsible of executing Avertra’s methodology (MiFlow)
Establish product requirements: Collect, clarify and translate specific business requirements into documentation and conceptual designs from which technology applications and solutions can be developed
Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog; lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
Ensures that user stories are concise understandable and actionable for the development team
Leads sprint planning sessions to select user stories for each sprint based on the team’s velocity
Leads daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline, deliverables, and scope management
Engages customer to gather product feedback to ensure their needs are being met.
Create mock-ups and work with UX on design
Define acceptance criteria for user stories, ensure the project team understands the expected outcome.

Team Collaboration

Communicate with stakeholders: Act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate the design and modification of systems to realize business strategies.
Train other teams on the core product value proposition and the problems the product solves.
Provide implementation support to cross-functional teams.
Contribute to the development of marketing, communications, and training in support of the prioritized programs.
Advise and consult with cross-functional and cross-business unit stakeholders in support of development initiatives that span the end-to-end value chain.
Provide project health status to upper management.
Provide knowledge transfer of product to the Customer Success team.

Requirements Needed Competencies:

Participate in exploratory discussions regarding desired business operations performance improvements.
Review and analyze current IT systems, documentation, and work process requirements to identify system capability gaps.
Document current – and future – business/system/data flows.

Development & Testing:

Work with the development team in an advisory capacity to produce new systems.
Work with the testing team to develop relevant test scenarios and testing plans.

Implementation, Maintenance & Monitoring:

Facilitate implementation or roll-out of new functionality (e.g. assist with the design, development, and sometimes delivery of training for end users).
Plan and develop strategies to convert data from the current system to the new structure, if required.

Process Review & Enhancement:

Perform continuous reviews of a process or system to align processes with changing business conditions and new products and service offerings.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge:

Product development life cycles
Market trends and customer needs
Business operations and processes
Product management principles
Prioritization and decision-making frameworks
Agile methodologies
Product backlog management techniques

Skills:

Product backlog management
Prioritization and decision-making
Stakeholder management
Communication and negotiation
Product vision and roadmap development
Feature definition and requirements gathering
Data analysis and interpretation
Collaboration and team management

Abilities:

Define and prioritize product features and requirements
Make tough product decisions
Communicate product vision and roadmap to stakeholders
Manage and refine product backlog
Collaborate with cross-functional teams
Adapt to changing priorities and requirements
Balance business needs with customer needs
Analyze data to inform product decisions
Create effective product roadmaps and vision

Preferences:

Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
Disciplined Agile / Agile Product Owner Certification
Scrum Certification

Education:

University Degree in the fields of: Computer science,technology, business, management information systems,economics, engineering

Experience:

9 years in related field. Minimum 5 years of utility industry experience is required.

Travel:

Dependent on project commitments.

Work Schedule:

As per office schedule

BenefitsOur Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer-centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the world's economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in today's enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.

What can we promise you:

You’ll join a global family of awesome, passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.

Avertra Corp jobs

Senior Product Owner