Product Owner II

• Preparation and participation in PI planning – Work with Product Management and other stakeholders to understand and clarify candidate features; collaborate with Technical Leads and other Product Owners on cross-team features to develop business use cases and assist in developing Level 0 estimates. Support team by providing context around functional and non-functional requirements, dependencies and minimum viable product, resolving ambiguities and clarifying relative priorities.
• Participation in sprint work – Produce stories and define acceptance criteria; refine backlog and adjust backlog priorities as necessary; guide team with through Q&A and clarification; assist with exploratory testing or other verification as needed; formally accepts stories with support from the team and story demos.
• Grooming and facilitating defect backlog – Maintain team defect backlog; work with client services and other external groups to prioritize backlog effectively.
• Maintain awareness of customer implementations – Contextualize Product Management requests by liaising with services, managed services and where possible, customers, so the intent of requests is deeply appreciated.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology; Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in an agile product development environment, building scalable high-performance complex applications.
• Strong industry experience in telecom BSS domain.
• Strong experience as Product Owner.
• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and effectively, in written and verbal form, and participate in discussions with an aim to achieving shared understanding and a positive outcome.
• Negotiation Skills: Demonstrated ability to engage in negotiation to drive towards a solution that is acceptable for all parties.
• Decisiveness: Demonstrated ability to act decisively, gathering pertinent information and moving forward in a timely way.
• Analytical skills: Demonstrated ability to break down business problems or high-level solutions into smaller units that can be understood and delivered by a team.

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