Product Owner III

Job Title : Product Owner III

Duration : 7+ Months (Possible temp to hire)

Location : Pittsburgh, PA 15219 / Lake Mary, FL 32746

Onsite Role

Responsibilities :

• Higher level of experience and expertise in product management. Responsible for strategic product planning, managing multiple product backlogs and mentoring junior Product owners.
• Product Execution : Able to write specs for minor features and contribute meaningfully to specs for major features. Able to negotiate the implementation of current work, make the right trade-off decisions to launch products in a high-quality manner. Knows when to escalate to managers. Works with teams to make recommendations that deliver maximum value to end users as quickly as possible. Can efficiently assess the quality and readiness of a release.
• Customer Insights : Formulates the right business questions to be asked and knows how to track down data to inform decisions. Can use low fidelity tools to outline a design approach and then work with teams to translate them into higher fidelity representation of the feature. Makes regular contact with users of product and uses multiple sources to prioritize roadmap decisions.
• Product Strategy : Understand business outcomes and how product decisions impact tradeoffs. Responsible for crafting a near-term product roadmap (in partnership with manager) and can communicate to junior team members.
• Full ownership of the product backlog and near-term roadmap, ensuring that it is properly refined, prioritized and groomed.
• Agile Ceremony Ownership across POD and includes tracking velocity and identifying efficiencies for teams.
• Ownership of user stories, refinement process and Stakeholder Management (ongoing collaboration and updates).
• Ownership of technical design decisions, performs product performance monitoring, track and analyze key product metrics.

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