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Costco Travel IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Product Owners are responsible for defining requirements, assisting with the overall product roadmap/vision, and driving value at the scrum team level. Product Owners work closely with teams and are the "voice of the customer", ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment. Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day to day development of new features and capabilities.

The Platform Enablement team's vision at Costco Travel is to provide tools, products, and design patterns to improve application agility, resilience, and the overall engineering experience. The Technical Product Owner will partner with the Technical Product Manager, Delivery Manager, and stakeholders to translate platform strategy into a detailed, prioritized backlog. The Technical Product Owner will collaborate with an agile delivery team to prioritize, implement, measure, iterate, and learn from the tools they have built and improvements they have made.

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ROLE

Supports business strategy by forming a backlog of features and user stories for use by the delivery team.

Articulates requirements for each user story with detailed acceptance criteria.

Uses data and insights from multiple sources that benefit the business and our members.

Pursues incremental delivery by looking for ways to meet business goals and learn from members and end users through frequent, measurable enhancements.

Works collaboratively and uses best practices with the delivery team to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and long-term release planning.

Monitors and improves product health.

Ensures completed stories meet acceptance criteria by reviewing test plans, the output of automated testing or, where necessary, contributing to manual testing efforts.

Prioritizes and collaborates in resolution of issues and defects.

Seeks and improves processes across the entire product team.

Seeks and improves processes across the delivery team by using retrospectives to inspect and adapt.

Communicates effectively with team members, stakeholders, and levels of management.

Provides direction, mentorship, and coaching to junior Product Owners.

Stays current on product ownership and apply product development and agile delivery practices.

REQUIRED

3+ years current experience working on a Scrum and/or Agile team.

3+ years current experience working on a Services Oriented or Microservice development platform.

3+ years' experience with creating documentation for communication with varied audiences.

2+ years' experience working on technical development projects.

Deep understanding of business requirements elicitation.

Proficient in business modeling, project scoping, and use case creation.

Expertise in utilizing standard documentation tools/utilities.

Recommended

Experience leading a Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Portal (IDP) or Platform Tooling team.

Familiar with: Java, JavaScript, Hibernate, MS SQL, No SQL, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Swagger, Helm, Istio, TKG, SRE, Python, DevOps, SonarQube, Feature Flagging Systems, IDP development, etc.

Deadline oriented and capable of self-management.

Strong work ethic, demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.

Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.

Ability to listen to and understand business needs. (Experience with a travel technology organization is a plus).

Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Required Documents

Cover Letter

Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com
If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.