Junior Agile Product Owner
Morris Plains, NJ
$30-33/hr (negotiable, depends on experience)
Position Overview:
In this role, as a Junior Agile Product Owner you will act as the internal voice of the customer. This role will define system features, participate in validation and is responsible for the scope of work. This individual will utilize their strong business and technical skills and experience to manage their team’s intake of work, as well as prioritize delivery and maximize business value being delivered by their Scrum team. In addition, they must be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger technology organization empowered to analyze and deliver innovative solutions to the marketplace. The Product Owner will apply specialized product knowledge and expertise to understand business and technology objectives, communicate the product vision and roadmap, prioritize, and translate needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.
In this role you will have the opportunity to exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in planning, and delivering initiatives. You will focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business.
Responsibilities:
- Produce clearly defined requirements that can be refined in user story format acceptable to stakeholders and scrum team resulting in a backlog depth of at least 1.5-2 sprints of ready-to-work stories.
- Drive discussions effectively with parties to elaborate process flows, user stories, story mappings, acceptance criteria and success criteria.
- Provide support to training and UAT with product capability details and other inputs as required
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize backlog of user stories for initiatives and maintain product roadmaps accordingly on a regular basis (weekly).
- Coordinate with Delivery Manager on delivery timelines for planned work.
- Ability to influence and present on detail of assigned product initiatives and their status in a setting where external client representatives will be engaged.
- Support stakeholders and drive preparation and alignment of objectives for quarterly planning events including completing decomposition of work for identified prioritized program epics and confirming work delivery timings from dependent teams.
- Own the product development lifecycle of assigned product or capability areas, including status reports
- Understand technology systems and customer journeys impacted by product/capability area
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Informatics, Computer Science, Business, or related field
- Solid understanding and hands on experience with JIRA/Jira Align
- Project or Internship experience in an Agile environment working with a Kanban board
- Proven ability to tell a data story through visualization tools such as Excel or Tableau
- Data Presentation experience through classroom or internship projects
- Demonstrate ability to perform root cause analysis and suggest rectification options.
- Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
- Understands key provider data business objectives and strategy
