Job Information
IRIS Consulting Corporation Technical Product Owner in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Responsibilities
• Manage each project’s scope and timeline
• Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
• Coach team members in Agile frameworks
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products
• Collaborate with Digital Business partners and Vendors to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
• Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks
• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
• Partner with Business to develop, own, and execute product roadmap.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
• Define and execute go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and sales have what they need to be successful
• Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment
Quals--
Minimum 8+ years of experience as Technical Product Engineer responsible for co-development Product vision/roadmap, translating them to Epics, feature and stories and delivering value incrementally in every sprint.
Minimum 8+ years of experience in running Agile/SCRUM ceremonial, effectively hosting and executing annual and quarterly planning activities with IT, POs and significant stakeholders
Minimum 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Software Development, RDMS, SQL, PL/SQL, etc
Responsible for conducting sophisticated and detailed research of existing processes, systems, and desired objectives to meet the goals/intent of the assigned products
Work with Product Manager, and SMEs to prioritize feature development, based on the business value
Manage stake holder expectations and ensure software development process lifecycle is being followed as per Delta standards
Acquainted with working with software engineers to create and manage relevant entities of agile development process.
Elicit and create initial epics/features and elaborating into user scenarios that clearly describe the functional and non-functional requirements
Deliver business requirements via artifacts such as epics, features, scenarios, acceptance criteria, process flows, wireframe diagrams, interaction diagrams, mockups/demos, etc
Collaborate with a multi-functional teams inside a Scrum framework
Conduct work sessions and document new features, requirements, and strategies.
Perform testing, track bugs, enhancements and ensure issues are resolved before promoting to production environments.
Able to work on multiple initiatives and balance constantly evolving priorities.
Use data and analysis to convey solution impact and to support process driven solutions.
Develop business logic and critical metrics for incorporation into decision support models and tools.
Construct problem statement including problem description and improvement measures.
Drill down beyond the problem surface to understand root cause.
Logically structure recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical and understandable business reason.
Supply guidance to project planning and effort estimation within scope.
Support the identification of risks and mitigation approaches.
Collaborate with business unit leaders to develop and maintain internal customer relationships
Has at least one work experience in a product company or a product startup (preferred).
Acquainted with any Data Analytics tools like PowerBI, Tableau, etc
Hands-on working experience with SQL queries usage in relational databases
Equal opportunity employer including disability/veterans.