IT Technical Product Owner - Managed Container Platforms Team

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Product Owners are responsible for defining requirements, assisting with the overall product roadmap/vision, and driving value at the scrum team level. Product Owners work closely with teams and are the “voice of the customer”, ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment. Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day to day development of new features and capabilities.

We are seeking a Technical Product Owner to join our Managed Container Platform team. You will work closely with engineers, architects, stakeholders, and leadership to drive the development and enablement of enterprise Kubernetes solutions, including OpenShift, AKS, and GKE. This role is critical in shaping the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog, and delivering container platform capabilities aligned with organizational goals. Product Owners work closely with teams and are the “voice of the customer”, ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment. Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day to day development of new features and capabilities.

The IT Product Owner excels in building relationships while working with architects to understand customer expectations and business values of the product. The Product Owner defines business outcomes and will decide, in partnership with the development team, what to build and what not to build by prioritizing and adjusting the product backlog. Facilitates product vision, Scrum meetings and sprint planning, provides sprint goals and new user stories, gives feedback during the sprint review, drives information and learning in the daily scrum, and reflects and takes action during the sprint retrospective. The development team will also seek your expertise in specifying acceptance criteria for each user story, writing acceptance tests, and running acceptance testing. Working in a test and learn environment, you will lead a project team in the implementation of upgrades to existing services, capabilities, and processes.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

●      Defines and communicates the minimum viable product (MVP) for a given application / product and the supporting release plans.

●      Collaborates with Product Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Systems Architects) to define new and or enhanced product requirements and functionality.

●      Collaborates with Product Managers to the support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap.

●      Works continuously / daily with teams to provide answers, feedback and direction on work items, enablers, user stories, etc.

●      Prioritizes the sprint backlog (as part of the sprint planning ceremony) based on the sequencing / ranking of features defin