Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary:
The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the product’s development, ensuring that it aligns with the vision, meets customer needs and delivers value. Acts as a liaison between the development team and the customer. Addition responsibility includes defining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring the project team delivers a valuable product to our customers.
Job Description:
Product Strategy
- Support strategic product roadmap that outlines the key initiatives, features and enhancements planned for the product over time.
- Articulate the product vision and value to our customers
- Understand the market trends and customer needs to shape the product direction
Project Delivery
- Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline, deliverables, and scope management
- Responsible of executing Avertra’s methodology (MiFlow)
- Establish product requirements: Collect, clarify and translate specific business requirements into documentation and conceptual designs from which technology applications and solutions can be developed
- Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog; lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
- Ensures that user stories are concise understandable and actionable for the development team
- Leads sprint planning sessions to select user stories for each sprint based on the team’s velocity
- Leads daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline, deliverables, and scope management
- Engages customer to gather product feedback to ensure their needs are being met.
- Create mock-ups and work with UX on design
- Define acceptance criteria for user stories, ensure the project team understands the expected outcome.
Team Collaboration
- Communicate with stakeholders: Act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate the design and modification of systems to realize business strategies.
- Train other teams on the core product value proposition and the problems the product solves.
- Provide implementation support to cross-functional teams.
- Contribute to the development of marketing, communications, and training in support of the prioritized programs.
- Advise and consult with cross-functional and cross-business unit stakeholders in support of development initiatives that span the end-to-end value chain.
- Provide project health status to upper management.
- Provide knowledge transfer of product to the Customer Success team.
Skills
Requirements
Needed Competencies:
- Participate in exploratory discussions regarding desired business operations performance improvements.
- Review and analyze current IT systems, documentation, and work process requirements to identify system capability gaps.
- Document current – and future – business/system/data flows.
Development & Testing:
- Work with the development team in an advisory capacity to produce new systems.
- Work with the testing team to develop relevant test scenarios and testing plans.
Implementation, Maintenance & Monitoring:
- Facilitate implementation or roll-out of new functionality (e.g. assist with the design, development, and sometimes delivery of training for end users).
- Plan and develop strategies to convert data from the current system to the new structure, if required.
Process Review & Enhancement:
- Perform continuous reviews of a process or system to align processes with changing business conditions and new products and service offerings.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge:
- Product development life cycles
- Market trends and customer needs
- Business operations and processes
- Product management principles
- Prioritization and decision-making frameworks
- Agile methodologies
- Product backlog management techniques
Skills:
- Product backlog management
- Prioritization and decision-making
- Stakeholder management
- Communication and negotiation
- Product vision and roadmap development
- Feature definition and requirements gathering
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Collaboration and team management
Abilities:
- Define and prioritize product features and requirements
- Make tough product decisions
- Communicate product vision and roadmap to stakeholders
- Manage and refine product backlog
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Adapt to changing priorities and requirements
- Balance business needs with customer needs
- Analyze data to inform product decisions
- Create effective product roadmaps and vision
Preferences:
- Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Disciplined Agile / Agile Product Owner Certification
- Scrum Certification
Education:
- University Degree in the fields of: Computer science,technology, business, management information systems,economics, engineering
Experience:
9 years in related field. Minimum 5 years of utility industry experience is required.
Travel:
Dependent on project commitments.
Work Schedule:
As per office schedule
Preferred Candidate
Years of Experience
Min: 5
Degree
Bachelor's degree / higher diploma
