About the position
Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
Responsibilities
- Creates and authors user stories with detailed acceptance criteria written in the customers' voice.
- Collaborates with the team to prepare the estimates for the user stories within the product backlog.
- Conducts the formal review and acceptance of user stories implemented by a team within a sprint.
- Supports business strategy by forming a backlog of features and user stories for use by the delivery team.
- Articulates requirements for each user story with detailed acceptance criteria.
- Uses data and insights from multiple sources that benefits the business and our members.
- Pursues incremental delivery by looking for ways to meet business goals and learn from members, and end users through frequent, and measurable enhancements.
- Works collaboratively and uses best practices with the delivery team to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and long-term release planning.
- Monitors and improves product health.
- Ensures completed stories meet acceptance criteria by reviewing test plans, the output of automated testing, or contributing to manual testing efforts.
- Prioritizes and collaborates in resolution of issues and defects.
- Seeks and improves processes across the entire product team and delivery team by using retrospectives to inspect and adapt.
- Communicates with team members, stakeholders, and all levels of management.
- Provides direction, mentorship, and coaching to junior Product Owners.
- Stays current with product management and lean-agile best practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years' current experience as a Product Owner or similar role.
- Working on a Scrum and/or Agile team.
- Working within a complex software development environment.
- Creating documentation for communication with varied audiences.
- 2+ years' experience working on complex development projects.
- Deep understanding of business requirements elicitation pursuant to specific programs/projects involved.
- Proficient in requirements gathering, business modeling, project scoping, and use case creation.
- Expertise in utilizing standard documentation and backlog management tools/utilities.
Nice-to-haves
- Strong work ethic, detail oriented, excellent self and time management, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
- Understanding the needs of the business, meeting department goals, and deadlines.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance
- Health care reimbursement account
- Dependent care assistance plan
- Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase plan to eligible employees
