Senior Product Owner

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Product Owner in Findlay, OH. Key Responsibilities:

• Builds customer and internal facing products with superior user experience across multiple verticals, accountable for an established or moderate complexity product
• Builds and prioritizes product roadmaps and plan releases; Ensures alignment between teams to prioritize product roadmaps, plan releases, and align them with business objectives
• Collaborates with Agile teams, stakeholders, and business representatives to address and resolve issues that arise during product development
• Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams, such as Value Chain Optimization (VCO), User Experience (UX), and business and operations teams, to align product strategies, gather insights, and plan releases
• Coordinates dependencies with peer organizations, such as Hybrid Cloud and SAP IT, and third-party organizations
• Identifies product-related issues, makes decisions and continuously does trade-off analyses to ensure development stays on track toward deliverable commitments
• Prioritizes the short-term feature backlog and releases, as well as the long-term product roadmap for products
• Conducts customer research, product discovery and synthesizes market factors into a cohesive product strategy
• Collaborates with customers to understand challenges & opportunities
• Collects quantitative data and takes a data driven approach to evaluate the viability of product initiatives
• Writes epics and stories to support completion of initiatives; Ensures stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product; Promotes Agile approaches to product development across teams/areas
• Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project
• Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements; The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first
• Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users