Product Owner

NTT DATA, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 94,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Flexible spending account / HSA

Paid time off

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join its product practice. The role focuses on building business cases, prioritizing features, and translating roadmaps into actionable backlogs while collaborating with design, architecture, and engineering teams.

You will facilitate planning sessions, define user stories with acceptance criteria, and drive delivery across multiple teams. A strong background in enterprise software and Agile is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in enterprise or consumer software.
• 8+ years 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.

Responsibilities

• Build business cases with clients to prioritize features by understanding business, market, and users.
• Collaborate with designers, architects, and engineers to translate roadmap into prioritized backlog.
• Participate in planning and sprint sessions; facilitate road mapping, release, and sprint planning.
• Manage product backlog with well-refined user stories for engineers to estimate.
• Identify audience and feature requirements; develop acceptance criteria and release gates.
• Coordinate dependencies between teams and organizations; provide product metrics to gauge progress.

Skills

Product management

Agile/scrum

User story decomposition

Product metrics

Roadmapping

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

ADO

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 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 of 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.

**** Only include for US Based positions
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 $93,816.00-$118,188.00. This 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 may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, lifeand 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 $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. We invest over $3.6 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

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.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners.NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Whenever possible, we hire locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites. This ensures we can provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs. While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements. For employees near an NTT DATA office or client site, in-office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs. At NTT DATA, we are committed to staying flexible and meeting the evolving needs of both our clients and employees.

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