This is a Hybrid role. Looking for local to Phoenix candidates only.
Required Skills/Experience • Overall experience of 10 Years plus with experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure • Demonstrated experience in a Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance or finance domain preferred • Certified Product Owner (CPO certification) • Articulates, elicits and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy • Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems • Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives • Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure. Preferred experience of having worked in a Scaled Agile environment. • Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach • Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows • Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users • Work with UX designers in creating mockups. Familiarity with tools like Invision, Figma etc. • Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests • Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests • Experience working for ISV in product development role • Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner • Very high commitment level • Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc. • Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation • Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog • Constructs and communicates an Agile team's product release plan to stakeholders • Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies • Work very closely with Scrum Masters to define & review feature list for various product • Work very closely with Scrum Masters & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development • Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team). Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features • Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog • Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases • Participate in functional tests • Plans for and facilitates planning sessions
Data PO Specific requirements: • Working knowledge of RDBMS & SQL is a requirement for the Data PO role having large volumes of data / Terabytes of data. • Familiar with the concepts of data modelling, data security, data lineage, data quality, data privacy and governance, data transformation etc. • Good to have - Cloud experience having worked with AWS or Azure.
Preferred Skills/Experience • Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision • Understanding of insurance products • Proven negotiation, influence and collaboration skills • Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation • Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking • Proven public speaking skills • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates • Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile team's product delivery • Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement • Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment