Product Owner

Project Consulting Group is actively hiring Product Owners for product planning and delivery prioritization. This includes managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working closely with agile teams to deliver value.

The Product owner bridges the gap between product strategy and development. They are responsible for health and management of the product backlog, organizing sprint activities, and are expected to answer questions from developers as needed.

This role also includes working with support partners to ensure that revenue, customer satisfaction goals and other outcomes are met in alignment with the product’s overall strategy and goals. We are looking for “High Competence | High Character | Low Ego” leaders who are experienced, knowledgeable, passionate about their field, and eager to deliver value to our clients.

Our ideal candidate:

• 6+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Product management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery or agile Product Owner (default qualification).
• 3+ years of agile Product Owner experience in Scrum and scaled agile environments.
• Experience delivering software products using agile principles, including planning and estimating and with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to meet deadlines, achieve goals, manage risk, solve problems, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Breaking down overall product strategy and roadmap into program increment (quarterly) and sprint level goals and priorities (in partnership with the Product Manager).
• Connecting with customer and internal stakeholder needs to inform the product strategy and roadmap. This includes relevant competitive knowledge and industry trends.
• Maintaining the content and integrity of the product team’s backlog of stories, enablers, and defects. Ensuring stories are well informed and represent the intent of ART-level features.
• Prioritizing the sequence of the backlog items and communicating that sequence to the product team during backlog refinement and iteration planning.
• Acts as a servant leader to the product team and incorporates feedback and suggestions made during team retrospectives into future delivery activities.
• Ensures working product demos are presented to key stakeholders for awareness, transparency, and input.
• Collaborating with other leaders across the ART to ensure transparency of work, dependencies are understood and properly sequenced, working methods are consistent across the teams, and priorities are aligned-on.

Required Experience:

• 3+ years of agile Product Owner experience in Scrum and scaled agile environments.
• Ability to train and coach all levels of the organization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven success in leading, coaching, and motivating cross-functional empowered teams.
• Proven track record of bringing successful products to market on time, incorporating a variety of development and delivery strategies (third party, insourcing, outsourcing).
• Expertise in navigating matrixed organizations and teams with proven success in leveraging the right people and resources at the right time for consistent and dependable delivery of optimal value to the customer and the business.
• Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and technology trend analysis.
• Ability to assess the impact of new product initiatives on the delivery team environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of product management in the regulated financial services industry.
• Demonstrated understanding and empathy for customer needs and pain points, amplifying the voice of the customer throughout product development and delivery
• Experience communicating and presenting complex information to multiple levels of the organization, translating data into understandable, actionable information and recommendations.
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills with a bias to action
• Ability to evaluate risks and the impact of decisions on the product line, generating creative alternatives and understanding trade-offs.
• Excellent analytical skills and orientation in making data-driven technical decisions.
• Experience with software development lifecycle management and tooling (Jira Align or Azure Dev Ops knowledge a plus).