Sr Technical Product Owner
Hays

Job Info

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The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Sr Technical Product Owner in Remote opportunity.

Role description

• Responsible for executing the vision, strategy and roadmap of the assigned digital product, and aligning it with the overall strategic direction.
• Manage a cross-functional team, composed of developers and designers, responsible for product development from conception to launch.
• Responsible for the why, when, and what of the product the engineering team will build.
• Assign tasks/stories to developers every sprint, review daily development and progress, and provide final sign-off for features to move into production.
• Work closely with upper manager from multiple areas of the business; negotiate priority and scope regularly, at least weekly, to stay aligned with evolving stakeholder and developers' needs.
• Make strategic product decisions and articulate clearly business value to product team.
• Perform demos on progress and show mock-ups to upper management and leadership (including the CEO).
• Lead designers to ensure the creation of the best user experience solution for the digital product.
• Ensure that all business needs and knowledge is transferred to the designers for optimal success of the product.
• Responsible for holding weekly meetings with designers for updates and check-ins on progress, ensuring that the designers' progress is aligned with the vision and business needs.
• Responsible for making sure a backlog exists and manage prioritization to ensure that stories (and defects) are the top priority for immediate release.
• Actively lead daily business analysis, transforming business requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria for the current and next iteration. Close gap in language and communication between business and engineers.
• Conduct team estimation sessions using data-driven and point-based approach.
• Work collaboratively across teams, building consensus and trust with all stakeholders, and alignment around common corporate goals.
• Communicate the team's work status to the stakeholder community (along with educating the stakeholders on the delivery process), including announcing all releases.
• Coordinate with teams and leaders outside of the core project team to communicate impacted audiences and nature of impact, ensuring readiness and adoption.
• Educate the team in various aspects of the business domain, devoting ample time to team discussions on the business intent/motivations for stories (particularly during Iteration Planning and Modeling).
• Track down answers (domain information) to ensure timely decisions, and coordinate access to domain experts when more appropriate than relaying the information directly
• Recognize the constraints around delivery and actively strive to enable team productivity and focus avoiding inconsistencies in requirements, reducing complexity where possible, and actively striving to reduce bottlenecks.

Skills & Requirements

• 5+ years' experience working as a Digital Product Owner with a strong technical focus managing integrations in order to support the main integration service between all other project applications, internal booking engines, and external travel partners
• Must possess experience managing integrations, both internal and external facing - must have general API knowledge (gRPC, Kafka)
• Must possess experience facilitating internal planning workshops (their main application stakeholders are product owners and developers)
• Must possess experience mapping both business process and technical design workflows
• Must possess experience with the entire lifecycle, including Product Ideation, Product definition and Roadmap, Development, User Acceptance Testing and QA, Launch and Post Launch Maintenance and Development
• Ability and experience understanding business problems and translating business requirements into technical implementation requirements for developers
• Strong experience with Epics, User Stories, and Roadmaps
• Ability to lead a collaborative development team and provide direction
• Preferred tool experience: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Figma, TestRail
• Must possess bachelor's degree - ideally in Industrial Engineering
• Prefer experience with deploying greenfield applications into production
• Agile/Scrum Master certification very highly preferred
• Experience with Jira/Confluence is a plus
• Prior experience with (IOs) / iPad applications is a plus but not mandatory
• Able to wear many hats when needed (QA, Design, etc - they have fulltime QA and design, but like having people who are willing to show how the app or idea for innovation could look like)
o Some experience with validating stories and UAT
o Some experience with design/water framing, which can be done in excel, paint, Miro or a paper
o Writing test cases in Test Rail, building test case scenarios, or performing regressions with each release

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays' guiding principles is 'do the right thing'.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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