About the position
Equifax is seeking a technical product owner who is a master at bridging the desires of the customer and the capabilities of the technology, removing barriers to software development. You will be responsible for grooming the product backlog and have insight into technical requirements of individual stories thus creating a more efficient user experience. This role requires being in our Alpharetta, Georgia office 3 days/week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Responsibilities
- Connects with the Customer in partnership with Product Management
- Understands the needs of customers and stakeholders in a broader context
- Develops partnership relationships with key engineering and QA counterparts
- Participates in interviews with users, customers and stakeholders to understand requirements
- Articulates and decomposes the work into discrete increments that align to customer needs
- Provides inputs in business/technical requirements definition
- Understands the end product/functionality needed and can articulate a broader need to deliver a more holistic solution
- Provides guidance to engineering and QA teams when clarity about business requirements is needed
- Active participant in solutioning and epic decomposition process to groom the backlog of stories
- Provides inputs to QE partners to ensure testing approach and high level use cases are considered in the solution and estimation
- Helps drive MVP definition with stakeholders when applicable
- Drives the process to identify, capture and document dependencies required to deliver the plan
- Interacts with dependent teams to understand dependencies
- Active participant in the process of initial estimates and value/effort assessment to define scope of quarterly increments
- Contributes to the analysis of how work should be sequenced and the implications to the critical path
- Reviews initial drafts of stories developed and/or contributes to refinement for Product Management review
- Aligns prioritization with Product Management and Product Owner best practices for defined backlog
- Creates sprint, sprint goal, ensures sprint plans are in place for the current sprint and the subsequent two sprints
- Drives adherence to story acceptance criteria to ensure development team delivers according to desired outcome
- Partners with QE and Engineering lead to define testing approach, scope and planning
- Provides final sign-off/acceptance of stories
- Captures feedback from Demos and synthesizes feedback for future work efforts
- Understands drivers of team velocity and testing gaps that drove incidents and bugs
- Monitors adoption KPIs and proposes changes to upcoming deliverables to drive improvements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered
- 5-7 years of product owner experience in a cloud-based and/or SaaS environment
- Working experience using Agile methodologies, facilitating Agile ceremonies and Lean product management required
- Working experience with data structures, data analytics and AI concepts preferred
- Experience working with cross functional teams preferred
- Exposure and experience understanding and tracking capacity against the budget of product initiatives
- Cloud certification strongly preferred
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to build strong relationships with partners across the business
- Self-starter who is organized, detail oriented, takes initiative with minimal direction
- Understanding of the value of product ownership and can effectively communicate the value proposition
- Experience working with multiple partners in a global setting with varying level of needs
- Consultative, creative and process driven approach to work
- Aptitude for handling multiple concurrent demands and prioritizing responsibilities
- Problem-solving skills to effectively and creatively find solutions
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
- 401k matching
- Paid time off
- Organizational growth potential through online learning platform with guided career tracks
