Join us as a driving force behind digital innovation, where your expertise will not only shape the future of our products but also open doors to new growth opportunities across the organization. In this dynamic role, youll collaborate with diverse squads across multiple business areas, gaining unparalleled cross-divisional visibility. By working with various teams and navigating complex challenges, you’ll become a well-rounded Product Owner with a deep understanding of how interconnected efforts drive enterprise success. This is your chance to elevate both your strategic impact and your professional growth in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment.
We are seeking a highly adaptable, strategic, and detail-oriented Enterprise Product Owner to act as a key driver of product execution and alignment with enterprise priorities. This role requires a dynamic individual who can be deployed to various areas of the business based on organizational needs, delivering value by translating high-level product strategy into actionable development steps. As a centralized product owner, you will collaborate with multiple squads across the organization, using agile best practices to ensure a consistent, data-driven approach to delivering product features. Additionally, you will foster upskilling opportunities across teams, elevating capabilities in areas that need development to support a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. The ideal candidate will not only have a strong grasp of agile methodologies but will also be skilled at navigating cross-functional relationships and handling shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment. This role is uniquely designed for a visionary Product Owner who thrives on complexity and cross-functional challenges.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Product Execution
- Partner with product leaders to translate high-level product strategy into executable backlogs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and business objectives.
- Rapidly assess and understand key product features that will have a significant impact on the assigned squads.
- Work with various squads to craft clear and concise user stories with defined acceptance criteria.
- Manage the entire product lifecycle within the development teams, facilitating delivery through continuous feedback loops with stakeholders.
- Lead sprint demos and ensure the successful delivery of features that meet predefined business criteria.
- Ensure alignment between product vision and execution across different product squads, coordinating efforts with other Product Owners as necessary.
Cross-Squad Collaboration and Leadership
- Lead and actively participate in all squad ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
- Facilitate backlog refinement meetings to ensure user stories are broken down into manageable, deliverable increments within each sprint.
- Act as the primary point of contact for integrating cross-squad efforts, ensuring coherent and consistent product development across teams.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by contributing to and facilitating Product Owner communities of practice, sharing knowledge and best practices across squads.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the bridge between stakeholders and development squads, ensuring that feedback is rapidly integrated and business objectives are consistently communicated and aligned.
- Engage regularly with stakeholders and Product Managers to provide insights on progress, aligning deliverables with the overarching enterprise strategy.
- Use a data-driven approach to validate decisions and provide evidence-based recommendations for new features and iterations.
Agile Methodology Advocacy
- Champion agile practices within the squads, ensuring that teams are following agile best practices to deliver high-quality features.
- Utilize agile management tools like Agility and Aha! to track product development progress and maintain data integrity.
- Promote a culture of flexibility and responsiveness, adapting the development process as priorities shift.