Product Owner

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for working with business partners to identify the business requirements that will drive technology and automation solutions to help solve business problems as well as to help drive Operational Excellence efforts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with business, technology, product, operational leaders, and other stakeholders to capture As-Is state and define To-Be state that will deliver business objectives.
• Translate the To-Be state into business epics.
• Build a well-groomed backlog and participate in Kanban/Scrum planning.
• Perform research and analysis to define feature and functional requirements and translate to detailed user stories.
• Create/revise analysis artifacts and deliverables for user stories including process maps, business rules, user flows, and acceptance tests.
• Collaborate closely with technology partners (Internal and vendors) to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during the QA process, maintain the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the product.
• Identifies gaps, efficiency, and performance improvement opportunities in AFS and proposes recommendations for addressing gaps and opportunities with:
• Quick wins & Process changes
• Automation
• Training needs
• Commercial tools
• Internal IT development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• MBA welcomed but not required.
• 3+ years as a product owner with experience in Agile (SCRUM, Kanban) methodologies.
• Must have experience with product development and management, including defining business epics, user stories, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.