Product Owner
Oakland, CA, United States
Mandatory Skills Facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team members to gather and understand requirements. Client Interview Needed for Selection (yes / No) Yes Detailed JD Facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team members to gather and understand requirements.
Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large stories into features and user stories that can be understood by the development team.
Requirement documentation: Translate features and functions into documented items for the development team.
Create acceptance criteria to express requirements. Ensure test and validation plans are complete.
Conduct testing such as functional testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), automated acceptance testing (AAT), and specification by example.
Primary liaison between product managers and development teams. Communicate scope changes to the delivery team.
Lead grooming exercises. Accountable for sprint readiness and delivery.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree, and 3-5 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, working on projects focused on software development and web services.
t least 2 years in direct support of a large scrum effort for a software development project.
Experience in Agile/Scrum, supporting Agile efforts, preference given to Scrum Alliance Certified and/or PMI-ACP applicants, and Product Owner Certified candidates.
t least two years' experience writing user stories, vertically slicing features, using test suites, and maintaining scrum backlogs.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating stakeholder workshops.
Desired Skills:
talent for multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, learning new skills and methodologies, and working under pressure in fast paced environment.
Flexible working style, ability to work in various types of client environments.
bility to lead decision making through influence, with the ability to make sound decisions in the best interest of the client as needed throughout the project lifecycle.
Collaborative working style with the ability to flex with many different types of working styles on client site