Product Owner Role and Responsibilities:

• Incorporating feature requests into product roadmap
• Groom and prioritize backlog
• Develop user stories with defined acceptance criteria
• Gather non-technical uses cases and drive development team to frame the technical approach to how those would be delivered effectively
• Manage the roadmap and epic definition for technology implementations
• Champion the agile process, both internally and on behalf of our clients
• Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
• Set sprint goals based on client needs/expectations
• Run Sprint and/or product demo’s for team
• Document and optimize business processes that impact project work
• Define business logic, generate examples for developers, and test completed code
• Analyze preferences and requests of end users
• Continually refine our tools, templates, and ways of working
• Keep track of industry trends, common business challenges, and be able to communicate to internal team members

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner or similar role
• Experience with agile practices, patterns and techniques
• Experience using and/or managing agile software management tools such as Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products
• Passionate about Scrum, Kanban, Lean Thinking, eXtreme Programming, SAFe, etc
• Experience with Digital Transformation practices, and agile agency delivery models
• Willingness to wear multiple hats to gain an understanding about different areas of the business and/or client needs
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
• Ability to dissect large requirements into smaller tasks that can be worked on/developed through user stories
• Willingness to learn new technologies as it relates to the projects/clients’ needs at hand
• Good communication abilities with clients, technology partners, and technical stakeholders
• Good organizational skills
• Act as a self-starter that’s willing to drive an agile delivery process
• Exceptional at asking clarifying questions
• A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the success of the team
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills