Product Owner

JobDiva, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); Remote; USD 137,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Product Owner to join our team in Alpharetta, Georgia (US) and lead product strategy from inception through delivery in a remote capacity across the US. The role emphasizes collaboration with designers, architects, and engineers to translate roadmaps into prioritized backlogs and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include planning, release planning, and facilitating agile ceremonies, plus hands-on work developing user stories and acceptance criteria while driving product

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 Agile Lifecycle Management tools (Jira, ADO, etc.) to create features, stories, and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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 audience, user groups, needs and feature requirements with acceptance criteria while acting as final release gatekeeper.
• Align user needs and business value while delivering through product delivery channels.

Skills

Product management experience

Product Owner experience

User story decomposition

Product metrics

Goal setting

Agile tools usage

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Scrum Master or Product Owner Certification

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Job description

Company Overview

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization.

We are currently seeking a Product Owner to join our team in Alpharetta, Georgia (US-GA), United States (US).

Job Description

How We Will Help You

• Joining our Product practice is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. Given your wide
• responsibilities, there will be opportunities for professional development. At NTT DATA, we pride
• ourselves on developing our people, whether it is by getting a certification or connecting you with helpful training so you can continue to deliver increasingly valuable work.

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 streamline 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.

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Must reside in the US

Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting pay range for this remote role is $65.68 to $74.11This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

NTT DATA is a ***+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. We invest over *** billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo. Visit us at nttdata.com

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter so that we may connect you with the appropriate team.