Product Owner

Aegon; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Product Owner to develop and communicate their product vision while working within agile teams. This role involves engaging stakeholders, prioritizing deliverables, and ensuring effective quality control. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree, solid agile experience, and strong communication skills. This position may allow for remote work with flexible collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of product lifecycle and agile methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• In-depth experience with agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate product vision to agile teams.
• Establish and prioritize product roadmap and backlog.
• Engage stakeholders to promote product strategy alignment.

Skills

Communication

Attention to Detail

Interpersonal Skills

Agile Methodologies

Technical Understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

The Product Owner (PO) develops and communicates their product’s vision to be fulfilled by their agile team(s). The PO is the team's key stakeholder who serves as proxy for the customer, both internal and external, and effectively engages other stakeholders, including other POs, to define and prioritize deliverables for their agile teams. The PO has a significant role in quality control and is empowered to accept work as done. The PO is dedicated to fulfilling these responsibilities and participates in one or two agile teams. The PO works closely with the team to align around objectives, incentives, and culture, and also engages critical stakeholders and customers to inform their product's vision and backlog as a means to help the organization achieve business agility.

Responsibilities:

Research and evaluate market-based and customer-inspired insights that inform the product's vision and comprehensive strategy planning.

Provide vision and serve as a champion of customer perspectives to the Agile team in the form of clearly written epics, themes and user stories each with clear acceptance criteria in collaboration with the team. Help the team make business trade-offs between near term and longer term product goals. Provide leadership to make the hard calls on scope and competing priorities while realistically manage stakeholder demands

Establish and prioritize the product roadmap and its backlog in collaboration with the team.

Collaborate proactively in ceremonies with UI/UX team, product scrum team, and other product owners to maintain the product roadmap, business outcomes, and goals.

Lead regular backlog refinement workshops to help estimate relative feature value and update delivery forecasts to aid prioritization, minimize oversubscription of delivery teams and manage stakeholder expectations.

Ensure product aligns with company strategy and broader product strategies through regular communication with customers, stakeholders and product management. Coordinate with the Scrum Master to facilitate short feedback loops between delivery teams and stakeholders through frequent deliveries and sharing of lessons learned.

Engage in scaled agile practices and coordinate with other Product owners (as needed) to promote cross-team alignment around product roadmaps and dependencies.

Lead product release planning with technical and business stakeholders and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.

Participate in system demos at the end of the iteration and provide story/feature acceptance per the pre-agreed “Definition of Done” criteria.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or experience work in a related field.

Solid understanding of the product lifecycle.

In-depth experience with agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up-to-date on industry standards and best practices

Comfortable working with multiple teams, in-house and remote

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Accurate and precise attention to detail.

Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders

Experience with JIRA, or a similar agile product management toolset.

Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite; working knowledge of software development.

Preferred Qualifications:

Two years of related work experience.

Product Owner certification (e.g. CSPO, SAFe POPM)

Track record of continued and recent education in agile, including training, conferences, user groups and self-study

Knowledge of approaches discussed in the agile space: XP, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, Crystal, FDD, etc.

Experience as a collaborative leader.

Working Conditions:

Non-commuting Remote employees will not be assigned to report to a Company office location (although they may need to travel to a Company office upon request) and will perform their work remotely.

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $102,000 - $135,000 annually .Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors includingqualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation in order to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.