Description
We are seeking a USCB GTA Technical Product Owner to spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. As a Product Owner, you will maximise the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing authoring, refining and prioritising the Product Backlog, and ensuring the right thing is being built.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: You will ensure that the product and its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organisation's overall strategy.
- Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: You will clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
- Create and Refine User Stories: You will write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
- Agile Events: You will participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
- Managing the Product Backlog: You will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts.
- Act as the Voice of the Customer: You will continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
- Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: You will review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: You will work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives.
- Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: You will regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs.
Vice President Expectations:
- Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Requirements:
- Ability to leverage SAS, SQL, and Excel to query and analyse data required to support the creation of use cases building the functional specifications from approved business requirements.
- Identify & implement process improvements to support efficiencies in design phases of projects.
- Balance multiple priorities and deliverables to maintain forward progress and ensure customer expectations are met.
Desirable skillsets:
- Proven experience in all aspects of the design & build of financial, analytical, and reporting solutions in large organisations across different businesses.
- Exhibits strong ownership behaviours, specifically showing proven ability to bring major assignment to completion.
- Superior communication skills with ability to interact with personnel at all levels of the organisation.