Technology Product Owner I - Enterprise

Sheetz, Inc • Pittsburgh, PA

19h

About The Position

Serves as the primary point of accountability and contact for assigned delivery teams work backlogs. Ensures the team’s work efforts are defined, scoped, prioritized, planned, and completed; relies on support from the Product Management and Architecture teams to ensure the work advances the plan and vision for associated products, initiatives, and projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in any field with courses in Business, Human Resources, or Information Systems, is required.
• Minimum 2 years of applicable IT experience is required.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, or related field is preferred.
• Practical experience with lean agile methodologies is preferred.
• Previous experience working with cross-functional IT teams is preferred.
• Product Ownership / Management (SAFe 5 POPM or CSPO, for example) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Works with Strategic Resource Management (SRM), Product Managers, Architects, System Engineers, and other stakeholders to consistently define and prioritize User Stories (US), Defects, and other artifacts in their assigned delivery team(s)’s backlog.
• Refine and prepare the team(s)’s backlog in support of quarterly – or release or program increment (PI) – planning through collaboration with the delivery team(s) to determine their PI objectives; and to define, clarify, and sequence US’s in support of the specified objectives.
• Review the team backlogs in support of sprint – or iteration – planning. Lead the teams through sprint planning to include setting sprint objectives, scheduling US’s and ensuring clarity and team alignment on the US deliverable – or definition of done – as well as the sprint plan in general. Escalate to Product Management team for any changes that require re-prioritization.
• Accountable for US creation and for assigned team(s)’s US’s, to include prioritization, scheduling, and acceptance.
• Supports Product Management, Scrum Master and Architecture Teams to coordinate, define and schedule enabler work – or non-functional requirements – for assigned teams.
• Serve as the requestor’s proxy, as applicable, in accepting US’s, to include working with the team(s) to agree on US completion, ensuring the completed US satisfies the definition of done and functions as specified.
• Support Product Management and Scrum Master Teams in inter-team dependency coordination during the execution of the sprint.
• Provide feedback to Product Ownership and Product

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level