The Product Owner serves as the day-to-day contact for the engineering team, providing clarity to tasks and refining the backlog.
They help coordinate efforts with engineering partners to streamline work and manage dependencies across our inventory platforms.
Working closely with the Product Manager, they help prioritize and sequence work to ensure development efforts align with business goals and customer needs.
Manage, prioritize and refine the inventory management product backlog to ensure alignment with our product strategy, technical dependencies, and sprint capacity.
Act as the primary technical point of contact between the engineering team and the product manager, ensuring clear understanding of goals, scope and priorities.
Refine product requirements with needs from our business partners and other internal teams to finalize detailed user stores and acceptance criteria.
Partner with engineering leads to plan sprint objectives, clarify requirements, and ensure deliverables align with product roadmap.
Collaborate with engineering leads to size and refine stories, address technical questions, and validate feasibility before implementation.
Validate deliverables meet acceptance criteria from our business partners and user expectations before release.
Contribute to sprint retrospectives and improvements to optimize the team processes, communication and product delivery.

Proven experience as Product Owner responsible for an eCommerce or digital marketing website and/or mobile app.
Comfortable working in complex, matrixed organization where leading and influencing without formal authority was necessary.
Technical acumen and understanding of centralized databases, APIs and content management systems enabling them to navigate complex technical integrations with ease.
Lead conversations among diverse stakeholders to build consensus with the ability to keep cross-functional teams focused and aligned on key objectives.
Experience analyzing complex inventory challenges to reach productive decisions that are data-driven and based on informed judgment.
Ability differentiating between assumptions, diverse stakeholder perspectives, and historical frameworks, to ensure every platform enhancement is backed by logic and strategic clarity.
Understanding of effective communication and demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness to defend strategic positions while across organization levels upwards and downwards.

Lead Product Owner

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