Job Description

The Product Owner is responsible for leading a product or set of product features through road mapping, design, and development phases of product lifecycle in support of organizational objectives. The Product Owner is responsible for a complex product domain or multiple smaller product domains and partners with Product Managers to create the product roadmap to deliver product value. The Product Owner is responsible for the internal, day-to-day management of the product line and for defining product needs in a release through epics and features in alignment with product strategy. This role works closely with product stakeholders to develop specifications for consumption by the development teams and clearly communicates the product vision, roadmap, and customer value to all necessary technical teams. This role identifies and facilitates the implementation of best practices for the product owner role.

Essential Functions:

• Work in partnership with Product Manager to draft, manage and maintain a roadmap based upon product and release strategy
• Responsible for creating and facilitating feature requirements, user stories and user interface design changes when working with technical teams to ensure readiness for development
• Gather input from Product Manager and key stakeholders in order to refine, prioritize, and maintain product backlog.
• Ensure solutions meet the product requirements and enables the overall product health
• Participate in sprint demonstrations, gather feedback from stakeholders, and approve or reject sprint deliverables
• Partner with Product Manager to provide input on timing and readiness of planned production releases
• Coordinate and assist with beta process and resolution of product release issues across stakeholders and with development team
• Identify and manage risks at the release and iteration level in partnership with team managers
• Participate in (and in some cases lead) daily stand-ups, refinement, story review, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Provide customer production issue escalation assistance and oversight to ensure resolution
• Ensure that training content is created and delivered for new product functionality
• For products under scope of regulatory quality management, assist with quality related tasks and complete quality training as required
• Identify and facilitate (and in some cases lead) cross-functional product process initiatives to implement best practices

Additional Functions:

• Provide domain expertise to assist with user experience planning
• Participate in (and in some cases lead) customer meetings
• Mentor product owner team members

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