Product Owner – Manager, Business and Program Management
Job Description:
- Serve as a Product Owner (Manager, Business and Program Management) responsible for defining product vision, strategy, and multi release roadmaps for complex systems or mission critical business capabilities.
- Lead the translation of high level business objectives into Features, and detailed User Stories that guide cross functional Agile teams toward delivering high value, user centered solutions.
- Partner closely with business leaders, architecture, engineering, UX, and program management to ensure alignment on priorities, technical feasibility, and long term product direction.
- Manage and refine the product backlog at scale, balancing competing priorities across multiple workstreams while providing clear priorities, acceptance criteria, and definition of done expectations.
- Oversee end to end product lifecycle activities, including business case development, requirements analysis, iterative design reviews, release planning, validation, training readiness, and transition to sustainment.
Requirements:
- Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree plus 5 or more years of experience.
- 2+ years of demonstrated experience as a Product Owner leading complex products or platforms in an Agile environment, ideally using Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
- Experience ability defining product vision, articulate strategy, and translate ambiguous business needs into well formed Features, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria.
- Experience facilitating PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, system demos, and other Agile ceremonies.
- Experience collaborating with technical and non technical stakeholders at senior levels to drive alignment and timely decision making.
Benefits:
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible work schedules
- employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- parental leave
- paid time off
- holidays