Lead I - Business Analysis

Company: UST Global Inc
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: October 11, 2020

Job Description:

Product Owner

UST Global is a leading provider of platforms; digital innovation; artificial Intelligence and end-to-end IT & Business services and solutions for Global 1000 companies. We are transforming corporations through deep domain expertise; knowledge-based ML platforms; as well as profound anthropological efforts to understand the end customer and design products and interactions that create delight. We are deeply committed to developing a comprehensive understanding of our clients problems and to develop platforms to address them.

Description:

UST Global is looking for an Agile Product Owner; to work with agile product management and engineering team to successfully deliver features and products to the market. Product Owner will be responsible for certain key functional areas of the product and will be the go-to person for these areas including defining features and user stories. The Product Owner will work closely with assigned scrum team to translate these to technical tasks and be responsible for overall delivery of product features within sprint releases. In addition; Product Owner will be responsible for helping to evangelize the product to marketing; sales; pre-sales and professional services teams and being the SME for questions and clarifications.

Responsibilities:

As a Product Owner; you will
Author requirements and user stories for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external) as needed ensuring that stakeholder and market needs are met.
Familiar and have experience in using agile/scrum methodologies such as SAFe to drive and deliver product releases.
Provide week-to-week tactical objectives to scrum team and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triage.
Drive and own backlog grooming and management; prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iteration
Work with 3rd party system integrators to drive process on schedule and on budget.
Drive beta and pilot programs with early-stage features; Proof of concepts; etc.
Be the voice of the product and company at system demos; sales calls; conferences and industry forums.
Validates and sign s off on all major design changes; epics; and stories
Partner with product management; application architects; and development manager to help establish vision; release and annual program backlogs
Research to identify needs that new or improved products can satisfy by analyzing and compare competitors products as well as meet with customers to discuss their requirements
Responsible for coordinating and working closely with Leaders; engineers; and product management to produce product documentation such as user guides; release notes; internal and external training.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science; information technology or equivalent.
Certification or experience in areas related to Product Management; Scrum or Agile methodologies.
5 years experience in Agile Scrum roles and 3 years experience in Agile Scrum Product Owner role
Strong experience in Agile development particularly Scrum
Must have proven work experience as a technical "influencer" and ability to own and drive the product and/or specific product features.
Understanding of Public Cloud offerings and Data processing systems

Preferred Additional Skills
o Cloud Skills: Prior experience working on Public Cloud products; especially AWS
o Interpersonal skills: Help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers; product management; and delivery team)
o Facilitation skills: Elicit business and user needs and all technology delivery needs
o Analytical skills: Evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources; reconcile conflicts; and decompose high-level information into appropriate features and/or stories.
o Experience with off-site product development teams.
o Ability to work in a dynamic and flexible environment with the ability influence.
o Technical aptitude; programming and/or UX (User Experience) background a strong plus

The successful candidate should demonstrate innovation; constant learning; self-motivation and effective team participation. Good communication and interpersonal skills are required. The candidate should demonstrate a willingness to share knowledge; excellent listening skills and strong analytical skills. The candidate must be able to work effectively under project and daily deadlines.

UST Global celebrates diversity and inclusion. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We welcome candidates to apply for employment from diverse backgrounds and believe your unique perspective adds to the richness of our company culture. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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