Product Owner

08 Jun 2024

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Product Owner

Direct Hire or Contract to Hire (no C2C please)

Must be local to the Chicago area (location is about 30 miles n/w of downtown Chicago)

Hybrid remote / onsite schedule

Description:The Product Owner will serve as liaison between business units, technology, and support teams to facilitate agile product development. This role directly interfaces with software development, architecture, UX and operations experts to represent the voice of the customer/user and is responsible for defining, documenting and clearly articulating requirements to the delivery team. Reporting to the Manager, Business Information Technology, the Product Owner will use a high level of product knowledge and critical thinking to prioritize user stories and development and ensure successful communication and implementation of all agreed-upon initiatives and their outcomes.
  • Act as subject matter expert for assigned area, performing the role of product owner on an agile team.
  • Lead the creation of functional and nonfunctional requirements in collaboration with product management and engineering teams.
  • Prioritize and refine backlog and work with engineering to design and build the product.
  • Create drafts of features and user stories with acceptance criteria to seed product backlog in order to begin the grooming process.
  • Represent the voice of the customer by developing deep expertise and empathy for the customers and consumers of our services and software products.
  • Transform the business requirements into actionable features, stories, and prototypes or images that follow a product growth plan.
  • Communicate in an effective, timely and efficient manner with business owners and the agile delivery team, ensuring the successful delivery of software during each iteration.
  • Develop rapport and trust with business owners, key stakeholders, and a highly technical development team.
  • Demonstrate work at the end of each iteration to key stakeholders and assist in authoring supporting technical documentation for delivered features.

Required
  • Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of product or project development experience
  • Multiple years of experience in a Product Owner and/or business analyst role (or similar) in an agile software development environment including a strong working knowledge of the methodology, user stories, and iterative development
  • End-to-end product ownership experience, from ideation through production

  • ID: #42603181
  • State: Illinois Schaumburg 60159 Schaumburg USA
  • City: Schaumburg
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-08
  • Deadline: 2022-07-24
  • Category: Et cetera