Product Owner

The Product Owner will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive approach to deliver one or more products, capabilities, services, or enhancements in accordance with the product roadmap. This Product Owner will specifically support Digital Retailing API's and integrations. The PO works with Product Managers, Business Leaders, and a cross-functional Scrum team to deliver the product to the Client as well as manages the overall effort to deliver products, capabilities, services and enhancements using the strategic vision as well as established key performance indicators. The PO understands the functionality and determines the release sequence and prioritizes and maintains the product backlog and performs just-in-time story elaboration with the development team.

PRIMARY DUTIES/KEY RESPONSIBILITES

Planning:

- Support scrum team(s) via Product Increment (PI) planning, defect prioritization, managing the product backlog and software development details, and maintaining velocity.
- Prioritization and management of the backlog and implementation, ensure product execution meets strategy and requirements, and refine features into user stories and story acceptance criteria.
- Partner with Product Managers to understand and influence product strategy and roadmaps, aggregate and conceive ideas for enhancing product performance and achieving product success/KPIs.

Development:

- Lead scrum team(s) to build, enhance and manage one or more products, capabilities or services.
- Facilitate solution optioning with Engineering.
- Coordinate with other Agile Product Managers to deliver on a vision that crosses multiple delivery streams or release trains.

Sales and Client Engagement:

- Partner with sales, sales operations, client solutions, and client marketing teams to communicate product performance and value for in-market products.

Evaluation:

- Assess product performance against KPIs and make corrections to improve performance and regularly communicate performance of the product/experience to stakeholders and the organization.

technical/functional skills
- Relationship Management - Implements stakeholder engagement communications plan. Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.
- Project Management - Defines, documents and carries out small projects or sub-projects (typically less than 6 months, with limited budget, limited interdependency with other projects, and no significant strategic impact), alone or with a small team, actively participating in all phases. Identifies, assesses and manages risks to the success of the project. Applies appropriate project management methods and tools whether predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches. Agrees project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communication plans) and tracks activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate. Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded.
- Product Management - Applies standard techniques and tools to carry out analysis and performance monitoring activities for specified products. Supports problem resolution, resolves issues and acts on feedback and usage of in-life products. Contributes product collateral and monitors results and feedback from product launches. Typically, responsible for one product, depending upon the products complexity.
- Other duties as needed or required

OTHER TRAITS
- Client-centricity: committed to understanding the clients needs and passionate about delivering value.
- Persistence: demonstrates tenacity and willingness to go the distance to get something done.
- Proactivity: acts without being told what to do. Brings new ideas to the table.
- Flexibility/adaptability: adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Knows that their routine is not always routine.
- Enthusiasm: exhibits a passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude.
- Openness to feedback and ideas: often solicits feedback and reacts calmly to criticism or negative feedback.
- Persuasion: able to convince others to pursue a course of actions

Education, experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.
- 3 years#CD# or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
- Working knowledge of Product specialty/job area principles concepts, practices.
- Basic understanding of API calls ie