Product Owner
Job Description
Senior Business Service Designer Role Purpose:
Job description:
Highly-motivated individual with a genuine interest in technology and a passion to deliver cutting-edge products. A strong Product Owner / Manager to work with our dream team environment in order to deliver best software solutions to innovative with industry-leading vendors.
· Duties and responsibilities:
· Lead delivery teams as their Design Owner / Manager
· Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements and share best practice
· Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared work
· Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
· Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
· Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
· Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of user stories
· Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
· Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
· Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
· Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
· Follow our competitors and the industry
· Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
Requirements and qualifications:
· Previous working experience as a Product Owner / Manager for 5+ years
· MA in Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field
· In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
· Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
· Excellent organizational and time management skills
· Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
· Creative thinker with a vision
· Attention to details.
Risk & Controls
The UX designer must ensure that the design team's goals are aligned with the overall business objectives of the organization.
Ensure that issues and actions associated to controls / risks are remediated in a timely manner.
Report and escalate the status of the relevant risks, controls and standards as appropriate.
Resource Complexity
Cross-functional, cross-platform teams have shared ownership of delivering desired outcomes.
Likely to work in a distributed environment involving contractors, LBG permanents, and partners.
Problem Solving
Drive and facilitate problem solving across the team removing impediments to delivery (in line with policy, process and other guidelines) to get things done.
Work with the team and support team members to find solutions to their issues and continuous improvement.
Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise.
Change
Pro-actively look for issues which may hinder the team in the future and seek timely resolution.
Take personal initiative in adapting to change.
Internal Collaboration
High level of collaboration within agile team, participating and contributing towards all ceremonies and spikes.
Collaborate as part of Chapters and a wider Community of Practice, seeking to identify common issues and opportunities to improve over time.
External interaction
Build good working relationships with third party suppliers and partners to LBG within the team or those who
impact your team's delivery.
Timeframe
Agile delivery is iterative and incremental, so development cycles and feedback loops are typically short (2 – 4 weeks), favouring shorter over longer.