Agile Product Owner Senior

About the position

The AGILE PRODUCT OWNER SENIOR is responsible for acting as a member of the Agile leadership team and is the functional and/or client (or business) representative for a project or set of projects within a market-focus to ensure stakeholder satisfaction and business value delivered. As a Product Owner for Data Mining Solutions, you will be responsible for defining and delivering comprehensive data analysis products that unlock value for our clients. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, prioritize features, and drive the product vision to fruition. Your role is pivotal in ensuring that our data mining solutions align with business objectives and provide meaningful insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for data mining solutions that align with the company's goals and market needs.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, define product features, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that development efforts focus on delivering maximum value.
• Lead the development team in agile practices, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure efficient product delivery.
• Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to ensure product development aligns with client needs and expectations.
• Monitor product performance, user feedback, and data outcomes to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, UX/UI designers, and other team members to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Create and maintain a clear product roadmap to guide development efforts and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Serve as the customer proxy and liaison between the business and the Scrum Teams; translating features into complex user stories within a team's backlog and managing, ranking and prioritizing this backlog.
• Final testing and acceptance of the user stories supporting the features.
• Effectively communicate to the team the stakeholder needs so the team's delivery meets both contractual requirements and established acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with team(s) to discover and deliver the best solution to the market problem(s) presented by the Product Manager.
• Manage the solution concept development process to ensure the product team understands the direction and vision.
• Create and maintain a regularly updated backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
• Understand how to write user stories and their acceptance criteria.
• Translate the product backlog into user stories.
• Serve as the Product Management (business) proxy and decision point to represent the stakeholders in the project.
• Review and accept/reject results both during a Sprint and in the Sprint review.
• Attend sprint meetings and be available to the team during the sprint for clarifications and acceptance of user stories.
• Create and/or input into a project's release plan.
• Present work to the team from Team Backlog during Sprint Planning for acceptance by the Team.

Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years experience with writing business/functional requirements and experience implementing Agile methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Leading SAFe (SA) certification, CSPO or equivalent (Certified Scrum Product Owner) and/or SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) strongly preferred.
• Payment Integrity experience is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Merit increases
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Incentive bonus programs
• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Short and long term disability benefits
• 401(k) + match
• Stock purchase plan
• Life insurance
• Wellness programs
• Financial education resources