Product Owner

Role: Product Owner

Location: Atlanta GA/Parsippany NJ (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Job Description:

• Analyzes business systems processes and related data to determine how solutions can be engineered to provided new or improved business capabilities and/or processes.
• Acts as a member of a product team responsible for the translation of business terms and processes into technical requirements specifications and/or acceptance criteria.
• Function as a proxy product owner and subject matter expert for their various business domains.
• Core competencies included requirements engineering requirements elicitation processes modeling and workshop facilitation.
• Prepares communications and makes presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives.
• Provides specific functional expertise that is theoretical and conceptual in nature.
• This expertise is typically acquired through a combination of university education and experience within a field.
• May have responsibility for supervising others in the capacity of a player coach but primary focus is individual expertise.
• Particularly at higher levels sophisticated subject matter expertise is a requirement for success.
• Applies working knowledge and experience in own job discipline. Continues to broaden capabilities and understanding of the company processes and customers.
• Solves problems in straightforward situations by analyzing possible solutions using experience judgment and precedents. Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team.
• Performs a range of assignments with a moderate level of guidance and direction.
  Strategy Development and Implementation
• Analyzes financial and market situations and participates in the creation of a business case or part of a business strategy.
• Applies/integrates the business strategy to work of own team understanding the main goals of the organization.
• Analyzes data to provide information to stakeholders on strategic issues; provides information to facilitate the calculation of the ROI.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Identifies and manages key business partner relationships listens to and understands their needs and expectations maintains open two-way communication and delivers value to business partner.
• Maintains facilitates and improves upon those relationships and demonstrates accountability for results. Develops trust and influence among key business partners.
• Available and consistently communicates with business partners to reach desired goals in a timely manner showing flexibility when needed.

Process Improvement:

• Assesses bottlenecks in work processes within teams to streamline and simplify workflow.
• Coordinates with team members to execute new ideas or approaches and achieve process improvement goals.
• Compiles data and analyzes the impact of process changes.
  Technical Communication/Presentation
• Confirms comprehension and understanding of complex information (e.g. legal operational risk and regulatory data) by correctly and clearly answering routine questions.
• Creates clear concise and organized communication materials (e.g. policies & procedures guidelines presentations messages).
• Considers and understands the audiences specific needs and comprehension level to determine the most appropriate message and delivery method limiting or explaining technical language.

Building a Business Case:

• Articulates the presenting business issue impacting own team and helps develop the rationale for addressing it (e.g. impact on customer satisfaction scores or team revenues).
• Assists in the identification and analysis (e.g. cost/benefit risk) of potential solutions to address the business need.
• Helps determine the recommended solution documenting the business case for change and sharing with team leadership.

Project Management:

• Develops project plans defines timeframe and prioritizes tasks to achieve project milestones and deliver intended objectives.
• Identifies the type of resources required to support a project and makes recommendations for specific people technology partners etc.
• Monitors progress to meet project milestones timelines specifications and requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Develops User Stories to ensure features are aligned with Client corporate strategy
• Performs cost-benefit analysis to ensure effective use of Client resources for maximum ROI
• Works with stakeholders to ensure clarity on features and requirements
• Conducts meetings with stakeholders to provide updates on features and status
  Probes isolates and troubleshoots business and/or operational problems for supported application
• Develop/Create and maintain the backlog for the developing support and enhancement of the application using the agile principles
• Review functional designs to understand how the applications will be design and perform
• Monitor and validate all applications are functioning as designed in a production environment
• Researching standards that apply to the program
• First point of contact for the business for all system support issues and questions