IT Product Owner - Global Business Application & Platform Services

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.
 

The IT Product Owner will join the Global Business Application and Platform Services (GBAPS) organization to own and manage the overall product strategy and backlog for the development of the new Costco ERP/MRP. This will be in support of the strategic initiative to replatform the current IBM iSeries-based core systems. The person in this role will prioritize, sequence, and coordinate the overall feature development roadmap in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and IT Vertical teams and manage the roadmap and backlog for the initiative. This person will also partner with Product Owners within initiative workstreams who are implementing core platform components and new features for the ERP.
 

The Product Owner also partners with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate product strategy and problem solving into a detailed, prioritized backlog of user stories. The Product Owner collaborates with an agile delivery team to implement, measure, and learn from the improvements they have made. The Product Owner manages execution of the portfolio’s product features and delivery roadmap for GBAPS that are aligned to KPIs that integrate both internal and external stakeholder requirements.
 

The Product Owner may also serve as the Scrum Master for their delivery team by enabling the team to self-organize, remove impediments, and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and continuous improvement.

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

● Supports business strategy by forming a backlog of initiatives, features, and user stories for use in managing program sequencing.
● Collaborates with Product Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Enterprise Architects, IT Vertical Leadership, Product Management) to define new and/or enhanced product requirements and functionality.
● Collaborates with Product Managers to support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap.
● Consults Product Managers for guidance and clarity on the product vision, roadmap, requirements, etc.
● Prioritizes the Epic backlog (as part of the sprint planning ceremony) based on the sequencing / ranking of features defined in the product roadmap.
● Prioritizes and sequences Epics/Features based on stakeholder and Product Manager input to maximize value and customer satisfaction and defines the overall Program sequence.
● Supports and participates in program level ceremonies including product increment (PI) planning sessions with input and consultation from the Product Managers.
● Works collaboratively and uses best practices with the delivery team to support backlog refinement, Epic planning, and long-term release planning.
● Seeks and improves processes across the delivery team by using retrospectives to insp