Senior Product Owner

Company Description

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Experian is the world's leading global information services company. During life's big moments – from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence. We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime.

We have 21,700 people operating across 30 countries and every day we're investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximise every opportunity. With corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, we are listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and are a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

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Job Description

Experian is looking for a Product Owner to join our Decisioning team, which is a part of our Experian Software Solutions business. You'll be part of the development of our next generation capabilities designed to help, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive. If you are passionate about owning the product backlog, organizing the sprint content and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet sprint goals, then we want to talk with you.

As a Product Owner, much of your time will be spent completing requirement analysis, participating in the Agile development ceremonies and planning out roadmaps. More specifically, you will be working with our decisioning product management team translating their vision into a detailed backlog and supporting the engineering team throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Your primary objectives are to ensure the sprint commitments are met, negotiate work with the Engineering and Product teams, manage the scope and deliverables, as well as facilitate internal stakeholder communication about project status and releases. You will own the sprint backlog and ensure all story acceptance criteria is well documented, drive iteration goals via prioritized stories and lead activities related to backlog refinement, design deep-dives and grooming.

Job Responsibilities:

• Take personal accountability for ensuring that team actions and backlog are consistently and fully aligned to the technical needs, strategic needs, and objectives of the business and/or client(s).
• Document requirements for the development team in line with market problems communicated by product management and collaborate with development team to ensure backlog (tickets and Epics) contain the necessary detail to ensure efficient prioritization, coding, testing, and client validation.
• Assessing reported defects, non-functional requirements, and other technical debt, triaging severity and prioritizing resolution alongside feature work, to ensure not only that the product always meets established Quality Criteria, but that quality continuously improves.
• Work closely with technical authors to generate documents and other artifacts describing current and future product features and functions to support implementation.
• Work with internal and external customers to implement and execute on the vision for decisioning identified by Experian's strategy and Product Management organization.
• Regularly prioritize, monitor and track the progress of the team backlog and commitments against targets, communicating this with the team to manage expectations and suggest additional support when needed.
• Present complex information and ideas through open, transparent communication to engender trust and ensure mutual understanding.
• An expert at identifying and acting against complex and distant potential road blockers, holding team members accountable for identifying and addressing individual road blockers to personal progress.
• Consistently demonstrates effective time management across challenging and overlapping projects, supporting others in the team with managing their schedule.
• Lead Backlog Grooming and Sprint Review sessions, while making sure to attend all other sprint events as an active participant.

Qualifications

• 3 yrs plus experience as a Product Owner.
• Product Owner certification is preferred – or otherwise demonstrated knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• Experience in a role that required collaboration, influencing others, and required building trust, in a complex and matrix environment.
• In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up to date on industry standards and best practices.
• Experience with Agile project management tools including JIRA.
• High sense of urgency and ability to work well in and navigate a matrix environment.
• Experience in gaining a strong understanding of business processes through in-depth business analysis and translating this understanding into technical requirements.
• Translating this understanding into technical requirements.
• Demonstrable excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong listening skills to facilitate effective communication with stakeholders from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds

Additional Information

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Experian Asia Pacific's culture, people, flexibility and environments are key differentiators. We take our people and equal opportunity agenda very seriously. We focus on what truly matters; DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, engagement, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. We're an award winning organisation due to our strong people focus (Great Place To Work, Top Employer and Employer of Choice).

Experian Asia Pacific leverages cutting edge data science, inclusion and start-up mindsets to build tomorrow's credit solutions. Innovation is a critical part of Experian's DNA and practices. As is our diverse workforce, which drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, colour, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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