Senior Product Owner for Toshiba product (Wroclaw) in Xenoss

Senior Product Owner for Toshiba product (Wroclaw)

Краків (Польща), Варшава (Польща), Вроцлав (Польща)

Summary

The Senior Product Owner supports the Product Manager/ Director Product Management in executing the product strategy, vision, and roadmap.

Their primary focus is serving as the team’s agile Product Owner, or scrum product owner, responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by a scrum development team. This includes defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog. They work with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to understand product needs, assess the potential value in addressing those needs, and working cross-functionally to define, develop and deliver solutions. This role also serves as a key leader on the team to lead technical discussions with the architects, developer and testers to document comprehensive requirements.

The Senior Product Owner takes on one or more of these additional responsibilities: leads multiple agile development teams, defines the content for product releases, or take on full product manager responsibilities, including roadmap ownership, for a subset of the overall product. They may bring experience in a specific functional area such as UX design, software engineering, or business analysis. They may also have experience in a specific industry/field, such as retail operations or store IT.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE & SPECIAL SKILLS
Preferred:
— Master’s degree in business, design, or a technical field
— Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent
— Experience in a specific industry/domain, (for TGCS, this will usually be retail store technology)

Required:
— Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience, or equivalent combination.
— 3+ years of experience as an agile product owner, leading development teams through planning, refinement, review, and sprint
— Previous software development background
— Dynamic, articulate, energetic and self-starter personality with demonstrated ability to translate product strategy and the product roadmap into executable development plans
— Proven results-driven individual with good business acumen; ability to understand the problem to be solved and deliver appropriate solutions that balances impact, effort, and alignment to objectives
— Strong interpersonal skills to establish report, credibility, and influence with others across the company
— Strong technical aptitude to learn, understand, and work with a variety of technologies, including hardware, APIs, databases, user interfaces, and various software architectures
Strong Leadership skills with experience motivating and influencing cross-functional teams to achieve results
— Strong presentation and communication skills with an ability to simplify and clearly articulate concepts at all levels of the organization and across functions
— Experience driving solutions from concept to delivery, working cross-functionally to define, design, develop, deliver, and iterate
— Build, update, and prioritize the product backlogbased on the product roadmap and business objectives
— Support marketing, services, and sales enablement in developing collateral, materials, and documentation
— Ability to work with program managers to plan, execute, and ship product releases

Responsibilities:

— Build, prioritize, and maintain a clear, comprehensive product backlog. Plan product release contents and timelines, drive execution to maximize the value shipped
— Leads design discussions with architects, developers and testers to drive technical requirements
— Voice of Customer to the engineering team, ensuring developers understand what to work on and why it is important
— Set goals for the development team and lead the team through the agile process, including planning, refinement, review, and sprints
— Serve as the product expert supporting internal and external stakeholders
— Perform any specific domain or functional responsibilities (i.e. if they were hired to bring UX expertise)