Independently leads the system development effort by providing vision to the team, outlining work in the product backlog and coordinating with the business owner to prioritize based on business value.
Gathers, validates, translates and prioritizes business and technical needs into a logically sequenced product and feature roadmap.
Owns delivery of product requirements and associated materials to engineering.
Works closely with the Business Analyst to develop these artifacts and drives consensus building and sign-off of them with all stakeholders including external ones when applicable.
Represents Senior Management in the making of product functionality decisions and compromises.
Manages impacts to multiple publics and business areas, adjusting deliverables as needed.
Active participant in scrum ceremonies, including retrospective; works with the Scrum Master to develop and implement identified scrum process improvements.
Collaborates and evangelizes detailed product roadmap plans, feature details and technical dependencies with other business units and divisions.
Participates in the creation of product launch plans and helps ensure supporting product documentation exists such as accurate sales collateral, product functionality guides, implementation support documentation.

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field or equivalent experience
Six years of experience making business process recommendations and preparing business cases including cost benefit analysis
Six years of experience with business process analytics using Excel, flowcharting, activity diagrams and workflow models
Demonstrated ability to document, propose, negotiate and present approaches and solutions
Ability to visualize and create plans for future business outcomes and changes
Thorough understanding of business implications, project interdependencies and system interfaces
Strong conflict management skills
Proficient at facilitating meetings, and negotiating across all levels of the organization
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to multi-task and work in a team environment
Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization.

Senior Product Owner

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