Product Champion

Company: Fiserv
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: May 12, 2022

Job Description:

The Product Owner is responsible for enabling the product vision and maximizing the return on investment (ROI)of the development effort.Product Leadership--- Partner with Product Management to understand the product vision and develop a comprehensive productstrategy, related roadmap, and help to set key business objectives for the product.--- Collaborate to execute on the product strategy that incorporates the need for modernization, stability, andonboarding new users to the cross-cutting technology services (e.g., APIs, microservices).--- Remain in constant engagement with client partners and product management to ensure alignment and thatneeds are met.--- Provide continuous direction and support to product team to ensure success.--- Accountable for the creation, maintenance, and prioritization of Product Backlog across multiple teams.--- Accountable for partnering with release management to develop release plans.--- Responsible for prioritization of features, user stories, and other product backlog items.--- Responsible for the creation of user stories with clear and concise acceptance criteria.--- Consider stakeholder interests and negotiate priorities.--- Collaborate with cross functional team including Solution Architects/Engineers to understand the architecture.--- Reviews and accepts completed user stories from the Agile Team.--- Ability to encourage an open exchange of information and viewpoints.--- Passion to inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance.--- Foster a sense of urgency to achieve customer goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.Agile Leadership--- Participate and facilitate in Agile ceremonies with Agile Teams--- Create and maintain product backlog of features and user stories--- Run and own backlog refinement ceremony--- Provide vision and direction to agile development team(s) and stakeholders throughout the productdevelopment process--- Collaborates with team to define 'definition of done' and 'definition of ready' for product backlog items--- Develops relationships with stakeholders and customers to enable feedback loop--- Play an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint--- Partner with Scrum Master across the teams to ensure overall team success--- Keep abreast with Agile best practices and new trendsOutcomes & Results--- The Product Backlog is defined, refined, and ordered.--- The Agile Team understands the product vision and strategy.--- The Agile Team delivers value to the customers.Knowledge & Experience--- 6+ years of technology Product Owner/Management experience, preferably with product delivery and/orworking with banking and/or finance domains--- 5+ years of experience working with agile methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP)--- 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)Knowledge & Experience--- 6+ years of technology Product Owner/Management experience, preferably with product delivery and/orworking with banking and/or finance domains--- 5+ years of experience working with agile methods (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP)--- 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience Strong investigative, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work independentlyor as part of a team--- Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business, customers, andtechnology teams--- Demonstrated experience and deep understanding of user experience best practices.--- Demonstrated experience implementing and executing Agile principles with strong digital and technical skills aswell as agile deliverables (e.g., writing user stories, iterative development, sprints, managing backlogs)--- Demonstrated experience with facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement,empowerment, and increasing transparency.--- Experience in API technologies (desired)--- Experience in engaging stakeholders to discuss issues, lead discussions to arrive at a common agreement.--- Facilitation skills for eliciting complex requirements or conflicting priorities between stakeholders--- Coach/mentor team members on continuous improvements.--- Open to experimenting with new ideas.--- Ability to build technical acumen and knowledge of our ecosystem.COMPETENCIESBusiness Competencies--- Adaptability--- Negotiation--- Change Enablement--- Cross-functional Collaboration--- Effective Communication--- Facilitation--- Inspirational Leadership--- Managing Complexity--- Stakeholder Management--- Value RealizationFunctional Competencies--- Agile Principles--- Agile Project Management--- Design Thinking--- Lean Mindset--- Problem Solving Techniques--- Product Backlog Management--- Product Mindset--- Product Thinking--- Sprint Planning--- User Story CreationCultural / Behavioral--- Biased Toward Action--- Servant Leader--- Strategic Insight--- Influential--- Drives for Results--- Continuous ImprovementTravel required: Percentage/frequency of 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