Lead Product OwnerAnalyst
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Job Location:
Grand Rapids, MI - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Thinking ahead seeing beyond and building together
Vervint is a purpose-driven global consultancy that is a digital catalyst empowering people and organizations to thrive in the experience-driven world. Vervint offers cross-functional expertise and guidance that goes beyond great tech believing technology thoughtful strategy and human creativity lead to real progress and transformation. With a human-focused approach Vervint provides a roadmap for success inherent in design empathy and ingenuity. Our commitment to purposeful progress gives us a unique ability to thrive at the intersection of technology strategy and experience to create impactful solutions that are more than simply migrating integrating or building tech.
With offices in Michigan and Minnesota and employees across the globe we put people at the heart of everything we do. Our values are part of what makes us different for our employees clients and the communities in which we live and work. At Vervint our purpose is progress and we are out to improve lives by keeping humanity at the core of every solution.
- Provide functional leadership coaching and day-to-day guidance to Product Owners/Analysts.
- Establish maintain and enforce standards templates and best practices for requirements user stories process documentation and backlog management.
- Review validate and approve analyst work products to ensure accuracy completeness and alignment with business policy and technical needs.
- Support onboarding training and professional development of analyst team members.
- Assist leadership with workload planning prioritization and analyst capacity management.
- Serve as an escalation point for analysis scope requirements and delivery challenges.
- Oversee requirements elicitation analysis validation and traceability across multiple initiatives or product increments.
- Ensure consistent application of user-centered design and inclusion of system users throughout design development and testing.
- Guide backlog strategy and health including epics features user stories acceptance criteria and prioritization.
- Lead or support complex discovery sessions stakeholder workshops and design reviews.
- Ensure requirements and backlog items align with the project roadmap policy direction funding constraints and technical architecture.
- Provide oversight and guidance on agile practices and Scrum ceremonies across product increment teams.
- Coach analysts and product owners on effective facilitation of sprint ceremonies backlog refinement and sprint execution.
- Ensure product increment outcomes are clearly defined achievable and aligned to roadmap priorities.
- Identify cross-team dependencies risks and blockers and coordinate resolution with project and technical leadership.
- Support release readiness data conversion and validation activities as needed.
- Act as a senior liaison between business leadership policy owners technical teams and vendor partners.
- Review vendor deliverables to ensure conformance with requirements acceptance criteria and contractual obligations.
- Support governance bodies steering committees and leadership forums with analysis insights recommendations and status updates.
- Ensure consistent communication and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement of product ownership and business analysis practices across the organization.
- Define and monitor metrics related to backlog quality requirements completeness delivery outcomes and team effectiveness.
- Ensure system and project documentation is maintained accurate and accessible (e.g. SharePoint Azure DevOps Wiki).
What Youll Bring:
- Strong expertise in requirements management backlog strategy and stakeholder facilitation.
- Deep understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
- Experience working with technical delivery teams and external vendors.
- Proven ability to coach influence and set standards across teams without direct people management.
- Excellent communication analytical and organizational skills.
Education/Experience:
- At least 8-10 years of experience in business analysis product ownership or agile delivery roles including at least 2 years of experience in functional leadership mentoring or lead responsibilities.
- Bachelors degree in Business Analysis Information Systems Computer Science Public Administration or a related field.
You Vervint we embrace all facets of identity that make you - you. From race gender identity and veteran status to disabilities and more your lived experiences enrich everyone around you. We know when we create an environment of safety and respect for individuals and their identities we all do our best work. That is why we celebrate our diversity foster equity and champion inclusion within our company the work we do and our communities. As we work together we commit to continuous growth learning from our mistakes and expanding on our caring culture to bring our values to life.
Vervint is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation national origin disability status protected veterans status familial status membership or activity in a local human rights commission status regarding public assistance orany other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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About Company
We help market leaders take the guesswork out of growth and strategy by tackling the challenges of digital product development, management and innovation.
