Product Owner

The Role

As a Product Owner within our Work & Rewards line of business, you will play a key role in product development projects by ensuring the organization’s needs are articulated as user stories for the Agile Scrum teams. In this role, you will practice the fundamentals of scope definition, requirements gathering, as well as system conceptual design. You will be responsible for taking the product management leadership team’s vision to defining scope; working with our UI/UX team to develop conceptual designs and understanding user experience and working with the team to create functional requirements. You will be focused on managing a development backlog and working collaboratively with your Scrum team to successfully deliver product releases. Additionally, you will assist in communications to announce new features and provide additional analysis support for our Product and business teams.

Note: Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with Product Managers/Leaders across our business to stay connected to the needs of the users in order to enable them to articulate the business scenarios across a portfolio of products
• As a key member of a scrum team(s), responsible for continuously grooming the backlog and working directly with Engineering, QA, and Scrum Master to facilitate software development and remove roadblocks
• Prioritizes Release backlog and Sprint backlog to ensure stories are ordered in a logical manner, incorporating feedback from Engineering and Product teams, taking into consideration dependencies and incremental development goals
• Participate in all sprint ceremonies, and lead grooming/backlog refinement meetings
• Triage bugs and defects during development
• Communicates the technical needs of end users, conducts initial requirement walk-throughs with Scrum teams, clarifies requirements daily through each sprint, works directly with all members of the Scrum Team with close consideration of cross-domain topics
• Proactively makes decisions on behalf of the Product team to unblock Scrum teams
• Escalates questions or issues to Product Managers or Program team & PMO as needed
• Performs User Acceptance Testing (UAT), where applicable
• Responsible for the success of the release
• Problem articulation – no solutioning or implementation – use the teams to help with defining solutions through collaboration
• Use trusted methods – story mapping, user stories, acceptance criteria

The individual in this role will have the opportunity to gain a large breadth of knowledge by working with experts in the fields of talent management, compensation, employee engagement, workforce analytics, etc. Our Product Owners are empowered to make key product decisions using their research and understanding of the industry to build best in class solutions.