Product Owner

Brooksource; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Brooksource is seeking a Product Owner to serve as the customer proxy for BMV areas and other stakeholders. You will define and prioritize user stories in the team backlog, lead an agile team of Developers and QA Analysts, and provide technical guidance for software development and deployment of new features.

You will collaborate with IT personnel, stakeholders, and other Product Owners to ensure alignment with roadmaps, release schedules, and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner in software development using Agile/scrum.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to define and prioritize user stories and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize user stories in the team backlog.
• Provide technical guidance and agile leadership to developers and QA engineers.
• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with roadmaps and releases.
• Review tests and acceptance criteria; ensure features meet business requirements.
• Coordinate backlog refinements and sprint planning with other Product Owners.

Skills

CSPO certification

Product Owner experience

Excellent communication

Agile / Scrum

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or Information Technology

Tools

Restful APIs

Database

Job description

The Product Owner is the member of the Agile team who serves as the customer proxy responsible for working with BMV areas and other stakeholders, including other Product Owners, to define and prioritize user stories in the team backlog. In this role you will provide technical guidance and agile leadership related to software development. Focus will be on leading your agile team of Developers and Quality Assurance Analyst engineers supporting the development and deployment of new application functionality and break-fix deployment.

• Make technical decisions to meet the design goals articulated in the product road map.
• Work as a technical support and liaison to designated IT personnel to provide testing, support and feedback on enhancement requests and regular updates/releases; adhere to release schedules.
• Demonstrate a high level of subject matter expertise in functional areas to bridge business requirements and IT solutions; provide technical direction and ensure compliance with best practice solutions.
• Review of functional, and non-functional test plans and user acceptance test plans/scenarios.
• Participation in the testing of new features and functionality to ensure the delivered solution meets the business requirements.
• Solicit final customer acceptance of the delivered solution.
• Provide analytical support for critical corporate initiatives including business function support for system migrations and consolidations, significant business area process improvement projects and complex product installations.
• Provide subject matter expertise to the Scrum teams, Production Support, and other teams (as needed).
• Manage, build and maintain team backlog ensuring user stories are clearly defined, prioritized, and ready for development.
• Review and reprioritize the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners and stakeholders.
• Involvement with updating user story definition, providing the clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
• Assists in drafting the team’s specific objectives for the upcoming release(s).
• Primary source for story detail, and priorities, and has the responsibility of accepting the final iteration plan.
• Primary responsibility for maintaining the user story flow through each iteration and during Iteration Planning.
• Collaborate with team to detail stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, Iteration Retrospective and team syncs. Coordinate dependencies with other Product Owners occurring in weekly Product Owner sync meetings.
• Works across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality.
• Adhere to established timelines and product benchmarks.
• Collaborate with various business teams to translate requirements and business needs into well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or Information Technology is preferred
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification from Scrum Alliance is a plus
• Experience in a Product Owner role, within the software development industry utilizing an Agile development methodology. Also including process definition, database, Restful APIs and/or requirement definition
• Successful history of solution implementation
• History of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to understand and effectively communicate technical concepts in a compelling, persuasive manner to non-technical persons
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and able to quickly assess complex issues
• Teamwork-focused/collaborative work style
• Demonstrate ability to work successfully on large and/or multiple projects
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
• High proficient in using Windows Operations System and MS Office applications
• Authorization to Work in the US – No Sponsorship

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Personal Work Relationships:

Personal work relationships are a key to IT success. Constant collaboration among other co-workers, and lines of businesses, are normal to regular day-to-day activities. Daily stand-ups, meetings with Scrum team(s), are necessary to promote transparency, align team members on current work and promptly surface and resolve any impediments.

Brooksource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the

basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry,

citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation

and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual

orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental

disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law,

genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal,

state, or local laws and ordinances.

Benefits & Perks:

• Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health
• Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that
• can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company
• match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and
• paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that

Pay Disclaimer:

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of

compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer

include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience,

knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market

data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.