Role Overview
We are looking for a detail-oriented Lead Product Owner to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial for translating product strategy into executable squad backlog and ensuring that our development efforts align closely with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in agile practices and a proven record of accomplishment of successful achievement of Sprint Goals contributing to long term Product Goal and product backlog development execution with 2+ product squads.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Execution:
- Lead and partner with the IT squad to execute a customer-centric product vision, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Drive collaboration to deliver meaningful value through effective execution and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Understand the features being brought into an increment cycle which will have an impact on the product squad.
- Socialize the impacted features with the product squad.
- Work with the product squads to write the user stories with clear and concise acceptance criteria.
- Actively engage in squad demo from the squad members and accept the stories based on the acceptance criteria defined.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to learning the intricacies of the product area, striving to gain expertise that enables you to make informed, strategic contributions to the development process.
Squad Collaboration and Leadership:
- Actively participate in all squad ceremonies, including Daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure alignment and effective delivery of value.
- Facilitate the backlog refinement meeting to collaborate with the squad members on arriving at clear and unambiguous acceptance criteria for the prioritized backlog. Splitting bigger work items into smaller ones that can be delivered in a Sprint.
- Facilitate the sprint demos and show working software to the stakeholders to receive feedback and incorporate it in the backlog. Coordinate with other Product Owners to align cross-squad efforts and maintain coherence in product development.
- Actively participate, contribute and facilitate sessions in Product Owner community of practice to learn from each other's experience.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Maintain open lines of communication with Product Managers and relevant stakeholders to review feature progress
- Work closely with stakeholders and Product Managers to contribute to the overarching product vision and strategy with data-driven and evidence-based ideation and iterative solutioning.
Agile Advocacy:
- Champion agile methodologies within the squad, promoting best practices.
- Utilize tools like Agility and Aha! for effective product management and ensure data hygiene to track progress accurately.
AI Product Readiness & Application :
- Demonstrates the ability to think forward about how AI may improve products, decisions, workflows, and customer or employee experiences. Applies AI thinking in ways appropriate to the maturity of the product, team, and environment. This may range from building foundational awareness and identifying practical use cases, to enabling responsible experimentation, to shaping scalable AI-enabled capabilities and broader product or ecosystem readiness.
