Sr Product Owner

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking a Senior Product Owner. The Senior Product Owner supports the Product Manager in executing the product strategy vision and roadmap.

Their primary focus is serving as the teams agile Product Owner or scrum product owner responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by a scrum development team. This includes defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog. They collaborate with customers partners and internal stakeholders to understand product needs assess the potential value in addressing those needs and work cross-functionally to define develop and deliver solutions.

The Senior Product Owner takes on one or more of these additional responsibilities: leads multiple agile development teams defines the content for product releases or take on full product manager responsibilities including roadmap ownership for a subset of the overall product. They may bring experience in a specific functional area such as UX design software engineering or business analysis. They may also have experience in a specific industry/field such as retail operations or store IT.

Responsibility:

• Build prioritize and maintain a clear comprehensive product backlog
• Plan product release contents and timelines drive execution to maximize the value shipped
• Voice of Customer to the engineering team ensuring developers understand what to work on and why it is important
• Set goals for the development team and lead the team through the agile process including planning refinement review and sprints
• Serve as the product expert supporting internal and external stakeholders
• Perform any specific domain or functional responsibilities (i.e. if they were hired to bring UX expertise)

Complexity:

Coordinating agile software development with waterfall-style business planning inherent in packaged software. Working with multiple complex technologies spanning multiple eras of the software industry. Balancing multiple projects competing priorities and determining the optimal plans for maximizing value given available resources.

Required:

• Bachelors degree with 5 years of experience or equivalent combination.
• 5 years of experience as an agile product owner leading development teams through planning refinement review and sprint
• Dynamic articulate energetic and self-starter personality with demonstrated ability to translate product strategy and the product roadmap into executable development plans
• Proven results-driven individual with good business acumen; ability to understand the problem to be solved and deliver appropriate solutions that balances impact effort and alignment to objectives
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish report credibility and influence with others across the company
• Strong technical aptitude to learn understand and work with a variety of technologies including hardware APIs databases user interfaces and various software architectures
• Strong Leadership skills with experience motivating and influencing cross-functional teams to achieve results
• Strong presentation and communication skills with an ability to simplify and clearly articulate concepts at all levels of the organization and across functions
• Experience driving solutions from concept to delivery working cross-functionally to define design develop deliver and iterate
• Build update and prioritize the product backlog based on the product roadmap and business objectives
• Support marketing services and sales enablement in developing collateral materials and documentation
• Ability to work with program managers to plan execute and ship product releases

Preferred:

• Masters degree in business design or a technical field
• Experience in a specific industry/domain (for TGCS this will usually be retail store technology)
• Experience using AI tools

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park NC providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowes Foods earned fuel rewards at Kroger or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart Michaels Carrefour The Gap Calvin Klein Boots Cencosud BJs or Costco These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the worlds installed market share leader.

The nature of retail is changing quickly so if you share our Together Commerce vision of a seamless two-way participatory shopping experience lets get together to drive the new economy.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:

• Group health coverage (medical dental & vision)
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pre-tax spending accounts
• 401(k) plan (with company match)
• Company provided life insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Generous paid holiday schedule paid vacation & sick/personal days

EEO:

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age ancestry color religious creed disability marital status medical condition genetic information military or veteran status national origin race sex gender gender identity gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email to request an accommodation

DIVERSITY EQUITY & INCLUSION:

We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore we are committed to Diversity Equity and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our 5 Core Principles (Create Outreach Foster Belonging Unleash Opportunity Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We are passionate about our customers in the retail industry.