Technical Product Owner

This is a Hybrid role. Looking for local to Phoenix candidates only.

Required Skills/Experience

• Overall experience of 10 Years plus with experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure

• Demonstrated experience in a Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance or finance domain preferred

• Certified Product Owner (CPO certification)

• Articulates, elicits and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy

• Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems

• Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives

• Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure. Preferred experience of having worked in a Scaled Agile environment.

• Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach

• Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows

• Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users

• Work with UX designers in creating mockups. Familiarity with tools like Invision, Figma etc.

• Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests

• Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests

• Experience working for ISV in product development role

• Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner

• Very high commitment level

• Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc.

• Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation

• Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog

• Constructs and communicates an Agile team’s product release plan to stakeholders

• Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies

• Work very closely with Scrum Masters to define & review feature list for various product

• Work very closely with Scrum Masters & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development

• Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team). Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features

• Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog

• Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases

• Participate in functional tests

• Plans for and facilitates planning sessions

Data PO Specific requirements:

• Working knowledge of RDBMS & SQL is a requirement for the Data PO role having large volumes of data / Terabytes of data.

• Familiar with the concepts of data modelling, data security, data lineage, data quality, data privacy and governance, data transformation etc.

• Good to have – Cloud experience having worked with AWS or Azure.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision

• Understanding of insurance products

• Proven negotiation, influence and collaboration skills

• Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation

• Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking

• Proven public speaking skills

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates

• Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile team’s product delivery

• Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement

• Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment