Temporary Product Owner
Job Description
Job Type: Contract
Contract length: 01 Year
JOB SUMMARY:
- The Product Owner will be leading initiatives to drive digital transformation for a new digital experience for our members.
- The Product Owner collaborates with the Product Manager and Journey Management teams to familiarize themselves with strategy and vision to be able to provide the necessary direction to business and IT partners as the solution is being developed.
- We are seeking a strong individual to push our digital experience to the next level. That includes working on initiatives where
- you are building a world-class and forward-leaning user experience, thoughtfully integrating proprietary and partnered solutions, supporting the evaluation and integration of the most important and exciting new technologies (e.g., Amazon Alexa)
- and features (e.g., virtual care) to increase conversion, and otherwise ensuring our customer has the most supportive, frictionless, and delightful digital experience possible.
Essential Functions
- The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.
- Leads scrum teams as the Product Owner
- Provides vision and direction to the agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create user stories
- Ensures that the team always has an adequate backlog of prior prepared work
- Plans and prioritize product feature backlog user stories for their work-streams
- Coordinates with Journey and product teams to deliver on vision, road-map and growth opportunities
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Leads the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint
Goals
- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- The requirements listed below reflect the knowledge, skill, and/or experience required.
Required Work Experience
- 5+ years related work experience Relevant experience with at least 3 years related to digital 1 year as product owner
Required Management Experience
- No supervisory/management experience required
Required Education
- Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience
Required Licenses and Certifications
- Enter Licenses/Certifications Licenses/Certification Details Time Frame
Additional Required Qualifications:
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Ability to work in an agile and iterative environment
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Business knowledge of Company
- Lean/Six Sigma or Product Owner certification
- Experience leading teams in a matrix environment with reporting responsibilities to two or more different areas
Self Essential Competencies
- Places the Customer First
- Acts with Integrity and Authenticity
- Builds Collaborative Relationships
- Demonstrates Flexibility and Supports Change
- Demonstrates Resilience
- Displays Courage
- Drives Results
- Pursues Self Development
- Shows Empathy
- Takes Initiative
- Understands the Business
Financial Responsibility
- The incumbent does not currently have financial responsibilities
Budget Responsibility
- No Budget Responsibility
- We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable culture for our employees and communities.
General Physical Demands
- Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
How to Apply
For immediate consideration, please send your resume directly to Lory Weir at lory@hornetstaffing.com. You can view all of our open positions at www.hornetstaffing.com247 total views, 0 today