Product Owner ll - Maryville, TN in 5000 CLAYTON RD ,MARYVILLE,TN at Clayton Careers

Job Description

Product Owner

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Product Owner serves as a liaison between various business units and IT to define and prioritize work for development teams by aligning features and user stories with business value. The product owner is the voice of the customer, stakeholder, and end user. The product owner works closely with developers and quality assurance to create executable stories and provides final approval delivered stories meet user acceptance criteria. This position will develop or assist with communication programs and training.

• Be the Voice of the Customer by recommending process changes, defining vision and scope, and proactively communicating project vision to business leaders, stakeholders, and users.

• Build and maintain the Product Backlog of user stories (detailed requirements) and defects. Work with product stakeholders and business leaders to prioritize user stories. Ensure product status is communicated.

• Work directly with developers, UI designers, and QA testers to break stories into executable stories that meet the expectations of the business users.

• Responsible for validating that completed stories meet acceptance criteria and that appropriate testing has been completed prior to release to production.

• Participate in daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, and sprint reviews and retrospectives. Demonstrate developed functionalist during sprint reviews.

• Work effectively with business leaders and subject matter experts in a collaborative manner, building constructive and effective relationships.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts.

• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills.

• Strong ability to work effectively within time constraints, changing priorities, and independently.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Including Word and PowerPoint

• Experience in project management, group facilitation, data gathering, and phases of software life cycle (requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring effectiveness.)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical and business experience.

• Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into technical specifications that can be used for development, and break down technical complexities so that they can be easily understood by business units and end users.