A Product Owner is the agile bridge between business strategy and the development team. They maximize value by owning the product backlog, translating stakeholder needs into actionable user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and ensuring development continuously aligns with customer needs and company goals

Duties:

• Represents business stakeholders to elicit, understand, analyze, document, refine and communicate business needs, so that business and/or technical delivery teams can build effective solutions
• Utilizes a proficient understanding of customer needs, as well as business vision and strategy, to prioritize investment, business value and delivery
• Works within multiple evolving development methodologies including iterative Agile and sequential Waterfall programs and projects, and variations thereof
• Serves as the business requirements expert, engaging and managing the work of subject matter specialists from the business
• Serves as the day to day decision maker and provides continual business guidance for the execution team
• Prioritizes the execution team’s work so that it aligns with the sponsor’s/business executive’s strategies
• Leads, manages or orchestrates activities for completion and proper documentation of business requirements and validating metrics as appropriate for methodology and Enterprise controls
• Works with the business and IT delivery teams to identify and mitigate risks to include business operational risks
• Escalates issues and develops and recommends appropriate solutions