PRODUCT OWNER II

The Product Owner serves the assigned functional area as the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer impact. This role is considered an expert in the supported applications and domain and is frequently sought out by other teams to assist in product delivery. The Product Owner represents business needs and priorities, manages and prioritizes the product backlog, assigns story points based on system knowledge, incorporates stakeholder feedback, and is accountable for delivering business outcomes across one or more products of low to high complexity.

Job Responsibility

• Authors agile stories and performs backlog prioritization (60%)
• Meets with stakeholders to gain clarity on business needs (25%)
• Participates in Scrum ceremonies (10%)
• Collaborates to ensure product vision remains appropriate and aligned with Dollar General’s strategic direction (5%)

Job Qualifications

• Servant-Leader for cross functional teams over a portfolio of products
• Accepts high-level objectives and works with stakeholders to convert business needs into product requirements
• Manages a variety of viewpoints to build stakeholder consensus
• Develops Use Cases and authors agile stories while prioritizing the highest impact work for the team and stakeholders
• Refine the backlog to enforce Sprint/story durations
• Develops and communicates product vision, strategy and related roadmap for the product
• Leads sprint review meetings and analyzes feedback to identify and understand product needs
• Primary technical contact for the engineering team
• Sets expectations with business stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities
• Responsible for Release Planning and accountable for overall product delivery and speed to market
• Understands how features are performing, the level of customer satisfaction, and provides suggestions for improvements
• Ensures flow of work by maintaining at least two future Sprints in the backlog

Education/Experience

• 4+ years of relevant experience in IT, Retail technology
• 4+ years of software delivery experience related to {functional area} to include {main application, e.g. WMS}
• 3+ years in diverse roles and increasing responsibilities across business and IT CSPO roles desirable
• 3+ years working in or with Agile software delivery teams using tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• 3+ years experience working with {vendor’s} {primary application} preferred
• Applicable Product Owner certifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner Certification)
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent experience