Agile Product Owner

Role Overview

• Act as the Product Owner on an Agile team, managing the team backlog and ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, define, and prioritize requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for specific business application(s) to the business unit, and liaison to the Information Technology Department and external technical teams as necessary.
• Provide escalated user support relating to the utilization of the business application(s).
• Research, analyze and apply emerging trends to projects and operations.
• Contribute strategic expertise to large-scale initiatives.
• Analyze business and user needs, emerging technologies, and risks in order to make recommendations, develop documentation of requirements and translate requirements into proper system specifications.
• Ensure systems are optimized to support business objectives and processes.
• Lead and participate in efforts related to implementations, releases and systems modifications.
• Ensure high data integrity is maintained and reported.
• Analyze and validate data.
• Design and prepare customized reports, document report specifications and ensure standard reporting procedures are aligned with business reporting requirements.
• Execute business application-related processes and transactions as needed.
• Develop and execute test procedures and cases as needed.
• Develop performance metrics to monitor and improve applications and processes.
• Develop project status reports for senior management review.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory regulations, Information Security Regulations, and Internal standard operating procedures.
• Provide training and guidance to other staff. Lead and contribute expertise to projects.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree required
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience required
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to apply technical expertise to resolve problems.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks efficiently.
• Ability to work on a team.
• Ability to be 24-hour on-call during period of major disaster.
• Travel: Travel may be required
• CSM and CSPO certification preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans
• Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO: Starting at 19 days a year; based on type of job and tenure
• Holidays: 11 paid holidays comprised of six core holidays and five floating holidays
• 401K with up to 6% match
• Paid Family Leave
• Employee Assistance
• Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term
• Service Awards and recognition