Product Owner

VDart Inc; Alpharetta (GA); In loco; USD 110.000 - 152.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

VDart Inc in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Senior Product Owner for a contract role onsite. You will represent client needs to the development team, translate business needs into product requirements, and manage the backlog with refined user stories.

Collaborate with designers, architects, and engineers to plan MVP scope, align roadmaps, and drive value. You will participate in planning and sprint ceremonies and deliver measurable product outcomes.

Competenze

• 8+ years of product management experience in enterprise or consumer software.
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Owner capacity.
• 5+ years decomposing features into user stories for software products.
• 5+ years creating and maintaining a product metrics artifact.
• 5+ years establishing goals and objectives for your product or capability.
• 5+ years using Agile Lifecycle Management tools (Jira, ADO, etc.).

Mansioni

• Build business cases with clients to prioritize features based on business needs, market, and users.
• Collaborate with designers, architects, and engineers to iteratively define MVP scope and translate roadmap into backlog.
• Participate in planning and sprint sessions; facilitate road mapping, release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
• Manage product backlog with well-refined user stories for accurate engineering estimates.
• Identify audience, user groups, needs and feature requirements; develop acceptance criteria for releases.
• Align user needs with business value and drive delivery channels for product delivery.
• Coordinate dependencies between teams and provide relevant product metrics for improvement.

Conoscenze

Product management

Product Owner

User stories

Product metrics

Goals & objectives

Agile tools (Jira, ADO)

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Scrum Master or Product Owner Certification

Strumenti

Jira

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Descrizione del lavoro

Role: Product Owner

Location: Alpharetta, GA(Onsite)
Type: Contract

Description:

Position General Duties and Tasks:

• How You'll Help Us: As a Senior Product Owner, you are fully responsible for representing the needs of the client to the development team. After analyzing the business needs, you will translate them to product requirements for our developers to ingest.
• Finally, as business needs change and stakeholders make new requests, you will add/update user stories and prioritize & refine the backlog, so developers are always working on the most important client needs.
• Your combination of technical and people skills will ensure that our products are always answering the most critical business needs of our clients. You will ensure that everything we produce provides maximum value to the client.

Once You Are Here, You Will:

• Build business cases with our clients to prioritize features by understanding the client business, the market, and users.
• Collaborate with the designers, architects, and engineers to iterate on the MVP scope. Work with senior product managers and business to translate roadmap into prioritized backlog.
• Participate in planning and sprint sessions. Facilitate detailed product road mapping, release
• planning, sprint planning sessions, retrospectives, and demos.
• Manage product backlog with well-refined user stories that are easy for the engineers to estimate.
• Identify the audience, user groups, needs and feature requirements.
• Develop feature and user story requirements with acceptance criteria while acting as final release gatekeeper for new functionality.
• Align user needs and business value while streamlining and championing delivery channels for
• product delivery.
• Includes technical and go-to-market delivery.
• Coordinate dependencies between different teams and organizations.
• Provide relevant product metrics to gauge team progress with a continual focus on improvement.
• Prepare and deliver verbally and orally effective communications of progress and status for both
• internal and client teams.
• Perform hands-on work, including analysis, design, testing, change management, as needed by
• the team.
• Contribute content to the Product Management practice on a quarterly basis.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of product management experience, preferably in enterprise or consumer software
• 8+ years of experience working in a Product Owner capacity.
• 5+ years of experience decomposing features into user stories for software products.
• 5+ years creating and maintaining a product metrics artifact.
• 5+ years establishing goals and objectives for your product or capability.
• 5+ years of experience using one or more of the following Agile Lifecycle Management tools
• (Jira, ADO, etc.,) to create features, stories, and roadmaps.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Scrum Master or Product Owner Certification.
• Experience in software development-based enterprise environment and software delivery.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time.

Ideal Mindset:

• Accountable Partner. You stay on track with your goals and take the necessary actions to achieve them.
• Collaborator. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
• Curious Mind. You ask questions, listen, observe, and have disruption tolerance.
• Honest Challenger. You understand, use, and build your competencies to navigate the workplace and contribute in a meaningful way.