Product Owner

Schneider Electric; Nashville, Andover (TN, MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Schneider Electric is seeking a Product Owner for the Services LOB (Energy Management) to drive product vision, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment within the squad. The PO will own the backlog, guide priorities, and work with cross-functional teams to maximize value and deliver customer-centric solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with league leaders, setting priorities, and maintaining a clear roadmap while ensuring delivery aligns with strategic goals of the energy

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile.

Responsibilities

• Define value proposition & set product strategy in alignment with vision to achieve goals.
• Spend time with customers & stakeholders to identify value drivers.
• Create, prioritize & communicate the Squad backlog, release map & roadmap.
• Lead and contribute to the customer interaction strategy with stakeholders.
• Build, manage and prioritize the product backlog and ensure transparency.

Skills

Product ownership

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Product Owner

Services LOB (Lines of Business) - Energy Management Business

Job Summery

Product Owners are key positions in a global organization, delivering value to the business and customers while maintaining a clear view on customer needs and what needs to get done. Product Owners represent the customer and act autonomously to communicate the right vision of the product within the Squad while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders (customers / commercial / plant / internal sponsors). They partner with League Leaders to set priorities (define, own and maintain the backlog), drive the strategic intent of the product and maximize the value of work done with the Squad. They create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership.

The Product Owner (PO) owns the product vision (when there is no Offer Marketing Owner), has content authority over it and is responsible for maximizing the value of the product through the backlog (list of customer requirements for the product, software or service in development). PO's regularly interacts with the scrum team (small agile team) as needed and acts as the voice of customers and stakeholders.

Job's Responsibilities

• Define value proposition & set product strategy, in alignment with League vision & to ensure team achieves strategic goals (when there is no Offer Marketing Owner role)
• Spend time with customers & stakeholders to identify value drivers
• Understand customer values, application, competitive environment, market trends, go to market and anticipate evolutions
• Gather and analyze customer’s needs by meeting customers and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders
• Evaluate the strategic value of the offer
• Define and validate the offer value propositions (UVP, business models, go to market)
• Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment
• Lead and contribute to the customer interaction strategy
• Define, create & maintain global reference tariff levels, ensuring offers are priced following value based pricing principles and portfolios are rationalised. (Only in circumstances where there is not an Offer Marketing Owner or League Marketing Lead)
• Build, follow-up and support business in collaboration with zones (when there is no Offer Marketing Owner role)
• Co-build or analyze business cases with zones
• Create, prioritize & communicate with Squad members the Squad backlog, release map & roadmap.
• Challenge and evaluate requests (from business, quality,...)
• Periodically review critical quality issues and associated mitigation plans
• Build, manage and prioritize the product backlog (note : Backlog should be transparent, visible & understood)
• Communicate backlog refinement
• Streamline the execution of priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or componements for the team.
• Define, update and validate the offer/marketing requirement (in sync with companion Squads and Leagues guidelines / strategy) within backlog product prioritization
• Build the releases plan and global roadmap according to technology, feasibility, budget, resources, TTM
• Communicate the product roadmap to all stakeholders
• Periodically review customers demo feedback to assess new needs
• Periodically review with internal stakeholders (including management agreement)
• Lead the offer requirement trade-offs
• Define with Squad members the sprint strategy and achievement criteria. Take accountability in sharing outcomes with stakeholders:
• Organize iterative deliverables for each sprint based on release objectives
• Ensure team understands and refines backlog items before committing to them
• Ensure sprint objectives contribute to value for customer (backlog) and product/process robustness
• Define and update achievement criteria
• Consider retro session outcomes in the iterative sprint definition
• Guide the Squad to set-up and re-prioritize realistic but ambitious enough sprint objectives : squad velocity
• Support the Squad to deliver on sprints & "rendezvous", acting as obstacle troubleshooter :- Be the voice of the customer for the squad questions
• Support the squad on all obstacles (including capacity issues)
• Periodic analysis of the product cost to deliver the right level of product cost
• Define the best trade-offs between all parameters (e.g. : Squad budget, schedule, product cost and business stake, quality, time to market, innovation)
• Ensure product/process robustness (according to "major rendezvous")
• Review periodically main acceptance criteria with the Squad.
• Synchronize with companion Squads
• Create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership :
• Organize, lead, challenge and motivate the Squad
• Be the voice of the Squad in case of trade offs and success needs with stakeholders outside of the Squad
• Provide transparency to key stakeholders
• Be part of the Agile rendezvous
• Celebrate team's success

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile