Technical Product Owner

Job Description

ROLE: Technical Product Owner

COMPENSATION: Salary Range: $121,000 to $151,700 annually + bonus eligibility (if applicable). This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate's location, experience, and other job-related factors.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB: The Technical Product Owner manages the vision for our consumer-facing mobile applications.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand and articulate business and customer values to prioritize and set the product roadmap
• Elicit requirements, synthesize, and document them into stories for the product backlog
• Break requirements into iterative sprint-sized stories that optimize speed-to-value
• Connect to internal and external stakeholders to understand work product and value
• Work collaboratively with engineers and testers on your agile release train
• Work directly with front-end teams building applications
• Follow documentation first approach to solutions and building high-value products
• Manage and refine the product backlog, assemble sprints, and perform release planning
• Collaborate with other product owners to improve the platform-level process
• Articulate business and customer value to the development team and use to guide prioritization
• Participate in the release process as the product expert to surface any issues, with resolution, before release
• Ensure roadmaps and product backlogs are visible, transparent, and clear

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

• KFC Data Management, KFC Operations, KFC IT, KFC Finance, KFC Franchisees, Vendor partners

SUPERVISION OF PERSONNEL:

Exempt - 0

Non-Exempt - 0

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIRED:

Education/Certifications - BA/BS in Computer Information Systems/Business Administration or equivalent experience

• Certified Product Owner with SAFe or related certification program

Experience

• 2-3 years as a product owner
• 1-2 years of manual QA testing and/or 1-2 years of engineering experience
• Working within an Agile environment
• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, React & React Native preferred

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here.

At Yum!, one of our core values is to Believe in ALL People. This means seeing the value in everyone and unlocking their full potential to be their best self. YUM! Brands, Inc. (including its subsidiaries Yum Restaurant Services Group, LLC ("YRSG") and Yum Connect, LLC ("Yum Digital and Technology")(collectively, "Yum") is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Yum! is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.

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About Us

KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation. In fact, KFC is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain and a division of Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company.

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. In 2018, Yum! Brands was recognized as part of the inaugural Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The company's restaurant brands - KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell - are global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories.

More important than our size is our commitment to breakthrough innovation and the success of our employees. We're proud of the unique culture we've built, one where everyone can be their best self, make a difference and have fun! We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, encourage ideas from everyone, and have actively developed a workforce that is diverse in style and background.