Product Owner

Wipro Technologies; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Tampa, Florida, seeks an experienced Scrum Master to lead a Scrum team, remove obstacles, and protect sprint goals. You will ensure proper Scrum ceremonies, foster cross-team collaboration, and maintain clear communication with the Product Owner and stakeholders.

You will bring mandatory Agile-Scrum expertise, 5-8 years of experience, and proven Gen AI use case implementation. You will guide ceremonies, update artifacts, and collaborate to improve velocity and delivery quality

Qualifications

• Mandatory Agile-Scrum experience.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience.
• Gen AI use case implementation is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, Retrospective).
• Protect the team from external interference and resolve impediments.
• Maintain Scrum artifacts and update ALM/tools daily.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to refine backlog and acceptance criteria.
• Track metrics and drive improvements to team velocity and quality.

Skills

Agile-Scrum

Job description

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description:

Job Description

Role Purpose

As a trained Scrum Master, you are responsible for facilitating a Scrum team and are accountable for removing impediments of the team to achieve the sprint goals/deliverables. You are responsible to ensure that the Scrum process is used as intended. A key part of your role is to protect the development team, allow the teams to be self managed, foster collaboration across teams and keep them focused on the tasks at hand.

Do

• Is accountable for meeting Sprint objectives along with scrum team
• Ensure meeting of sprint commitment
• Own and help resolve impediments of the team
• Help PO adopt Scrum Process properly and ensure PO availability
• Support the PO in maintaining the Product Backlog, defining User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
• Facilitate estimation, backlog refinement and all planning ceremonies
• Ensure that DOR, DOD, Acceptance criteria is available and adhered to
• Ensure MoSCoW adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level
• Accountable for the correct implementation of the Agile Process
• Protect the team from external interference.
• Facilitate technical assistance to the team and enables clear communication amongst the team members
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlights impediments
• Provide feedback on the team members performance to the Agile Line manager and Agile Program Leader
• Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup, Grooming, Demo, restrospection) and ensure correct adoption

• Ensure updating of all Scrum artifacts
• Ensure ALM tool (either client or Wipro) is updated on a daily basis
• Update key Scrum metrics into Wipro internal tool on a Sprint-by-Sprint basis
• Analyse key Scrum metrics and take corrective actions
• Create competency improvement and cross-skilling plan for the team (by the start of the project). Review monthly and ensure improvement in competency score. Ensure multiskilling for at least 50% of the team.
• Help team attain stable velocity within 6-8 sprints (allowing for 10% variation either way)
• Train team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum / XP / Kanban)
• Help in adoption of engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, CI, CD, Refactoring
• Record and own the restrospection actions
• Participate in community of practice initiatives
• Provide inputs to the Line manager for internal quality forums (QIC / APR / QBR / MBR etc.)

Job Description:

- Responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team / Product Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for with the team is responsible.

- Ability to identify Epic and stories.

- Experienced in working with Scrum team and business closely.

- Experience of implementation of Gen AI use case is mandatory.

Defines Vision and Platform Needs:

Owns the working backwards documents for feature releases

Makes use of research, user studies, metrics, and competitive analysis to understand the platform and business needs for a platform product

Compares features for competitive review to inform prioritization within a platform product release

Identifies innovations or performs “test and learn” experiments to create features that add more business and customer value for a platform product

Participates with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs.

Technical Product Portfolio Management:

Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the platform product portfolio and roadmap

Makes trade-off decisions on platform product features

Exhibits expertise within platform feature area and coordinates with interdependent teams.

Platform Product Planning & Development:

Develops business and platform requirements for either one platform component of a large platform product or a narrow product

Sets the direction for the platform design of assigned products

Determines release goals for a narrow platform product or a component of a large product, prioritizes features according to business and platform product, and adjusts throughout the implementation as needed

Continuously monitors feature development through a bug catalog at the platform product level

Reviews the product demo with the development team against the acceptance criteria for his / her component of a product

Prepares platform product documentation, ensuring features and documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams.

Creates and monitors KPIs for assigned product features

For any issues, assesses the alternatives to resolve (“path to green”) and builds a plan for resolution

Launch:

Executes the platform GTM plan, monitors the effect of the plan and reports on it

Owns and delivers on post-launch reviews and customer feedback, drives the associated actions, and incorporates feedback into the future launch plans

Operate:

Develops strategic business and customer engagement plan and drives its execution

Cultivates relationships with key industry thought leaders to increase platform product success in the market segment

Leads operational platform product strategy across an entire portfolio and works with other platform product teams to ensure strategies are aligned

Represents the team in executive operational reviews and drives follow-through on issues identified

Develops strategies to launch platform products into new market segments, particularly where significant modifications are expected

Helps leadership craft responses for escalations of customer / business facing product issues

Identifies new controls and leverage points to accelerate growth

Mandatory Skills: Agile-Scrum.Experience: 5-8 Years.The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

Wipro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Applications from veterans and people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, minority group, age, or disability status.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Applications from veterans and people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.

Wipro is committed to creating an accessible, supportive, and inclusive workplace. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to all applicants including persons with disabilities, throughout the recruitment and selection process. Accommodations must be communicated in advance of the application, where possible, and will be reviewed on an individual basis. Wipro provides equal opportunities to all and values diversity.