Job Title- Technical Product Owner
Project Location – 4 days onsite, 4 days WFH in Minneapolis, MN (local)
Duration- 12+ months contract
Need todays 10-15 min slot for video screening with vendor
Need DL for address proof
*Candidates must complete a background check & drug screen upon offer*
Top 5 must have skillsets:
- Outstanding Analytical and collaboration skills
- Technically savvy (understand systems design, patterns, interactions, etc.)
- Excellent documentation skills (producing technical documents/specs, process flows, interaction diagrams, etc.)
- Organized
- Continuous drive for improvement
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a scrum master/TPO role
- Familiarity with software development
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks
- Excellent communication and servant leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field
- Scrum master certification is a plus
Responsibilities:
- Manage each project’s scope and timeline
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration
- Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
- Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
- Help teams implement changes effectively
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
- Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
- Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products
- Collaborate with Digital Business partners and Vendors to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment
- Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement
- Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
- Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks
- Partner with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
- Partner with Business to develop, own, and execute product roadmap.
- Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria
- Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
- Lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
- Define and execute go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and sales have what they need to be successful
- Develop and maintain appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment
