Product Owner

• Provides vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
• Ensures that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plans and prioritizes product feature backlog and development for the offer/product
• Fully understands the product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities
• Assesses value, prioritizes backlog items based on this value, time, and other team dependencies
• Provides backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Works closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Leads the planning product release plans and sets expectation for delivery of new functionality/capability
• Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and Iteration goals
• Drives iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories
• Establishes story acceptance criteria, accepts stories into the baseline
• Researches and analyzes the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Follows business competitors and the industry and keeps abreast with Agile/Scrum/SAFe best practices and new trends

• Seasoned knowledge of the technologies and portfolio of offers
• Seasoned knowledge of product development in an ITC industry
• Seasoned knowledge of the SAFe’s practices and its application/operation
• Powerful communication aptitude
• Effective escalator with good resolution skills
• Seasoned ability to empower teams
• Seasoned understanding of iterative development
• Seasoned understanding of the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
• Seasoned understanding of incremental delivery and the value of metrics
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Ability to relate to, and integrate with alternate development methodologies
• Be conversant in DevOps practices
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred
• Relevant SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager Certification preferred
• ITIL Service Management certification preferred
• Implementing and Leading SAFe certification preferred
• Seasoned demonstrated experience in Product Management and / or Product Development
• Seasoned demonstrated experience in building managed services solutions
• Seasoned demonstrated program or development management experience
• Seasoned planning experience
• Seasoned Agile coaching experience
• Experience working in Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Seasoned experience managing multiple teams and product roadmaps

Advantageous certifications - SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe for Teams, SAFe DevOps, Professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or certified scrum product owner (CSPO), Program Management Professional (PgMP)