Lead Product Owner

OVERVIEW:

84.51° Merchandising Analytics and Operations (MA&O) program enables a breadth of opportunities to drive science and insights across Kroger’s Merchandising, Operations, and Supply Chain business areas. We strive to turn our data into actionable insights used to personalize the customer experience for shoppers at Kroger. This role will be focused in the Operations and Supply Chain portion of the program, ensuring we are building scalable enterprise solutions for our operations sciences – from data acquisition to the orchestration and delivery of the sciences.

SUMMARY:

The LEAD PRODUCT OWNER is the business champion and team linguist that is accountable for maximizing the value of the product results from the work of the development team. You own the details of the business value delivered at the team level. You translate business requirements into product requirements to ensure that the product delivers on user needs. You will be assigned to a Team(s) based on the size, scale and complexity of the technology, that best aligns with your skills and experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive business value for the team by prioritizing and ordering product backlog items based on the product roadmap
• Experienced in managing a team’s product backlog and ensuring it’s transparent, visible and clearly communicated
• Translates business desires/requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development
• Outlines clear acceptance criteria, to clearly communicate the definition of “done”
• Stakeholder management – experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change
• Experienced level knowledge in the development and use of product data to influence product decisions/roadmap – both quantitative and qualitative
• Deep understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, business processes and constraints in which your product(s) play
• Deep understanding of customers/users problems, how they think and operate and the platforms/technology they use
• Understand and communicate organization objectives, strategies and solution needs to the team to facilitate results (where collaborative/as colleague)
• Manage and communicate dependencies and risks

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Skilled in managing cross-functional software development teams in an agile environment
• Skilled in managing business priorities against design/user needs while delivering against product roadmaps
• Skilled in managing end-to-end data science solutions and services
• Stakeholder management skills – experienced in building and managing stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change both internal at 84.51° and at Kroger
• Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Comfort with ambiguity – remains confident, positive and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
• Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
• Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical
• Technical acumen – grasps the technical details to lead a team
• 4-6 years relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

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