Job description

We have an immediate Contract to Hire (C2H) opportunity for Product Owner role Onsite at Minneapolis.

Candidates need to go to office one day/ week. Remaining four days remote work.

Our client is looking to fill this role immediately.

Do share the updated resume (by adding more points about Product Owner, Agile etc), filled Skill matrix, consultant details asap.

Skills

Years of Experience

Overall Experience

As Product Owner

Agile Methodology

Agile Product Development Frameworks

Product Vision & Roadmap

Product Backlogs

Release planning

User Stories

Utilizing and configuring JIRA

Other Agile Planning Tools (CA Agile Rally, VersionOne, etc.).

Consultant Details

Criteria

Consultant’s Data

Full Name

Primary Phone

Primary Email

Education (highest degree with major, year of graduation and name of institute)

Certification if any

Skype id

LinkedIn Profile (if not available please provide 2 references from past projects with their contact information)

US work authorization and expiration

Expected payrate/hr on C2C

Current Company Name

Current location (City/State)

Willing to relocate (yes/No)

Availability to join new project/ Notice period

Have you ever worked or interviewed for this client in the past?

If yes, as a consultant or as an employee?

Last 5 digits of Social Security Number

Birth month and day (NOT YEAR)

Role: Product Owner

Location: Stillwater, MN –prefer local and onsite 1 day/week

Start Date: ASAP

Length: 6 months CFH

IT Product Owner

The purpose of the IT Agile Product Owner Role is to champion & utilize Agile Product Development Frameworks to drive software development and operations/infrastructure efforts to frequently deliver usable product that delights Business stakeholders and accomplishes the goals of the Enterprise. This role will act as a liaison between Product development teams and business stakeholders, collaborating closely with both groups to ensure there is clear understanding of what features are needed in the product/application. This role will be the “voice of the business” and will focus on maintaining and prioritizing the backlog for one or more products/business groups to ensure the development team is working on Product Backlog Items that maximize business value and deliver consistent results that align to the broader Business Division or IT strategy in order to better enable our Business stakeholders and end-users. The IT Product Owner will also drive metrics to measure the impact of products/applications on business and stakeholder value. A highly accountable self-starter who wants to make an impact on the enterprise, helping Business end-users articulate their needs, and helping IT deliver these frequently and with high stakeholder satisfaction. Expected to take on the largest projects/oversee teams of Product Owners, with large to very large user bases, very high financial impact/investment/revenue gen, proprietary products not ready to be shared with the market, and focused on up to leadership-level, including external partners, vendors, and strategic alliances with other organizations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Business and IT Leadership to understand strategic decisions and apply to Product Vision. Engage with IT Leadership in aligning product strategy to Product Backlogs as well as in escalating questions upwards and outwards. Drive changes in alignment w/Product Strategy. Act as the liaison between the product team and business on products, collaborating closely with both groups to ensuring there is clear understanding of what features are needed in the product/application. Cultivate and maintain an effective relationship with all Stakeholders, and help the business create detailed requirements for changes/improvements.
• Develop and Own Product Vision & Roadmap: articulate 6 months Product Vision & Release Roadmap. Understand and balance cross-team impacts and technical currency/debt vs feature-development.
• Work w/Business Partners to define and prioritize the Product Backlog in order to streamline the execution of program priorities. Ensure clearly-articulated PBIs & User Stories following best practice conventions (Who, What, Why) that help Scrum Team better understand the functionality they need to deliver. Work w/Scrum Developer team as needed to clarify functional requirements.
• PO has ultimate accountability around quality of released features and owns User Acceptance. Work w/Scrum Team to meet Definition of Done and ensure Acceptance Criteria reflected in product to ensure quality. May coordinate testing efforts and feedback loop with SMEs.
• Engage in PO-to-PO communication as part of Scaled setting across Product teams (for example, Scrum of Scrums) to coordinate team roadmap commitments/progress, uncover dependencies and system architecture considerations. Take part in Quarterly Product Roadmap/Increment/Release Planning Processes: these may involve other Product Owners, Enterprise/System Architects, Release Train Engineers (aka Agile Program Managers), Scrum Masters, Agile Team-members (Developers, Business Analysts), and may include IT Leadership and People Managers.
• Help identify and create metrics to measure impact of releases, features.
• Stakeholder communication, status reports, including budgeting (optional). Provide regular updates to business partners on product changes. Summarize the delivered value for the product changes on a quarterly basis.
• Actively engage in Communities of Practice forums and communication (via multiple channels) to foster organizational maturity and better Agile understanding, best practices amongst fellow Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Scrum Team-members, as well as Agile Program Managers, People Managers, IT Leadership, and Business stakeholders.

May lead efforts of teams of Product Owners representing one or more product areas. Work w/other Product Owners on sharing best practices, team challenges and how these were overcome, and organizational issues that may be impacting multiple teams. — It is more of a collaboration with other product owners and less of being the lead product owner.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (Management Information Systems, Business Administration preferred).
• Scrum Certification Preferred: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO).
• Other Certifications Welcome.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience with Information Technology/Software Development/Operations/Infrastructure efforts with progressive responsibility.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc.).
• Tools: Working experience with utilizing and configuring JIRA and other Agile Planning Tools (CA Agile Rally, VersionOne, etc.).
• Display past ability to facilitate communication between business and technical teams.