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Form of workCostco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes "World's Best Employers".
This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.
Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
Product Owners are responsible for defining requirements, assisting with the overall product roadmap/vision, and driving value at the scrum team level. Product Owners work closely with teams and are the "voice of the customer", ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment. Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day to day development of new features and capabilities.
The Product Owner (PO) works closely with different stakeholders in the business to gather requirements, prepare solid specifications for new features to be developed by the Data/BI/Quality Engineering team, and take ownership of projects, from concept to launch. The PO will be integral to driving agile methodologies and best practices. This position will contribute to and drive the strategic direction of data analytics products and identify opportunities to increase business value from growing data repositories. The Product Owner will influence, educate, and prioritize the data and analytics requirements backlog as well as the strategic decisions to enable the next slate of outstanding experiences for our customers.
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ROLE
• Defines and communicates the minimum viable product (MVP) for a given application / product and the supporting release plans.
• Collaborates with Product Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Systems Architects) to define new and or enhanced product requirements and functionality.
• Collaborates with Product Managers to support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap.
• Works continuously daily with teams to provide answers, feedback and direction on work items, enablers, user stories.
• Consults Product Managers for guidance and clarity on the product vision, roadmap, requirements.
• Collaborates with Scrum Masters to ensure the work managed by teams achieves the highest value relative to needs priority of the business.
• Collaborates with Scrum Masters and teams to define the sprint plan based on the priority outlined within the overall product vision and roadmap.
• Prioritizes the sprint backlog (as part of the sprint planning ceremony) based on the sequencing and ranking of features defined in the product roadmap.
• Refines product requirements based on the input obtained through sprint showcases and demos.
• Creates and authors user stories with detailed acceptance criteria written in the customers' voice.
• Collaborates with the team to prepare the estimates for the user stories within the product backlog.
• Conducts the formal review and acceptance of user stories implemented by a team within a sprint.
• Drives the execution of user acceptance testing (UAT) activities with support from business and technology team members.
• Supports and participates in program level ceremonies including product increment (PI) planning sessions with input and consultation from the Product Manager.
• Performs functional reviews as part of sprint demos and showcases along with the Product Manager and Delivery Manager.
• Delivers data solutions that result in business value.
• Leads Scrum sprint planning, sprint review, provides sprint goals and new user stories, gives feedback during the sprint review, drives information and learning in the daily scrum, and reflects and takes action during the sprint retrospective.
• Participates in the translation of software features into technical requirements and follows Agile Scrum-based software development.
• Shares in the responsibility to maintain a groomed backlog and use effective Agile processes (Scrum and Agile).
• Works with stakeholders to identify KPIs and gather data analytics requirements.
• Tests reports to ensure optimal user experience and data accuracy.
• Works with business stakeholders to understand processes and documenting requirements.
• Works with cross-departmental business partners, Data/BI engineers/ Data Architects/Data Scientists/Platform Engineers and own the end to end delivery of the data products, which includes documenting and prioritizing user stories, demoing solution designs, testing and releasing changes into a Production environment.
• Partners and works with business stakeholders to define high impact analytical problems and find innovative ways to solve problems with data.
• Ensures teams meet their sprint commitments so product deliverables are on time.
• Breaks down big problems into small stories that provide value to users.
• Documents detailed acceptance criteria that developers and QA can rely upon to complete their tasks.
• Works with Delivery managers to communicate project statuses and identify, address, and escalate potential setbacks and risks.
• Organizes sprint and milestone demonstrations with stakeholders while providing guidance to agile teams.
REQUIRED
• Agile Product Owner or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of business requirements elicitation pursuant to specific programs/projects involved.
• Proven experience with creating documentation for communication with varied audiences.
• Proven experience working on complex projects.
• Must be well organized, accurate, and attentive to detail.
• Excellent communication, public relations and follow up skills.
• A strong work ethic and sense of accountability.
• Good judgment and decision-making skills.
• Maintains a positive and results-oriented attitude.
Recommended
• Agile Product Owner Certification.
• Experience working with Ancillary and Warehouse business areas.
• Experience working in Agile teams.
• Experience within Data Analytics (DataWarehouse, BI, ETL).
• Experience with ADO and ServiceNow.
• Experience working in a DevOps environment.
Required Documents
• Cover Letter
• Resume
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Pay Ranges:
Level 3 - $125,000 - $160,000
Level 4 - $140,000 - $195,000
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.
Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.
