Sr Product Owner (Asset Protection)

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Value Delivery in each Sprint

• Drive to completion 1-2 features during any one quarter
• Interact with customers and stakeholders to elaborate and understand needs to user stories under features assigned.
• Respond to teams’ questions about requirements or assist in the facilitation of requirement feedback.
• Clarify user stories, product vision and specification.
• Collaborate with teams daily to ensure the goals of the sprint are met.
• Evaluate completed user stories to ensure the acceptance criteria is met prior to delivering to business stakeholders.

Testing

• Serve as point of contact for testing requests for development team.
• Work to anticipate testing needs during a given sprint.
• Coordinate testing completion based on priority and team capacity.
• Assist in quarterly planning activities, support assigned development team in preparing for and engaging in quarterly planning and facilitate communication and tracking of assigned features.
• Assist team with presentation of value delivered in sprint. Anticipate appropriate level of detail needed and likely questions.

Influence/Leadership

• Provide leadership by modeling excellence in high productivity, strong work ethic, and positive interaction with others. 
• Represent the team in interdepartmental projects and corporate initiatives; consult with the business area on the most complex system-related issues and make recommendations for better utilizing the available technology.

Reporting

• Maintain detailed knowledge and communicate the status of specific features assigned that affect business partner groups.
• At regular intervals, meet with business partners, discuss status updates, gather information on upcoming initiatives and relative priorities of each.

Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with business units and team members to understand and identify tactical business needs and optimized solutions based on MVP.
• Interact with clients to mitigate risks and to resolve problems.
• Provide transparency to business partners on scope, schedule, and resource constraints to a plan.

Work Experience, Education, Certification / Training Required

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Master’s degree, PMP, CSPO, and P certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated professional level abilities in process management, effective tool usage, evangelizing product technologies and related application capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, negotiate, listen, mitigate conflict, build alliances, and achieve results. 
• Minimum 2+ years demonstrated experience in project management or support roles in customer facing environments requiring complex relationship management.
• Minimum 2+ years working with integrated project teams using varied delivery methodologies.
• Certifications in industry-related or discipline-related organizations are desirable and may substitute some work and/or technical experience. (Organization could include Scrum Alliance, LOMA, SILA, American College, PMI, IIBA, IIST)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Ability to build relationships and establish credibility quickly with key stakeholders internally and externally.
• Sound understanding of software development life cycle and successful management of multiple full lifecycle projects required, Agile experience is highly preferred.
• Meaningful experience and expertise working with front and back-office processes and technologies, integrating business and technology, and managing demand and prioritization required.
• Experience/in-depth knowledge of business requirements analysis.
• Leadership and negotiation skills, with driving desire and high propensity to learn quickly and develop oneself.
• Ability to communicate clearly, negotiate, listen, mitigate conflict, build alliances, and achieve desired results using strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal management direction, and within a team environment.
• Skilled at asking questions and professionally challenging to uncover key facts and information.
• Has the courage to make decisions but also has the wisdom to know when a decision requires escalation.
• Builds consensus among diverse groups of stakeholders; highly skilled at facilitating resolution across functions and departments.
• Has the confidence to engage and work productively with business leaders.
• Dedicated team orientation and willingness to work to earn trust of the team.
• Other related skills and/or abilities may also be required to perform this job.
• Requires travel for quarterly planning and other onsite meetings. (approx. 4-6 times per year)