Senior Product Owner – Digital Innovations

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Position Summary

The Sr Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads the product team(s) developing the product(s). This position may be involved in the funding management and budgeting processes for the products and / or portfolio. 

Responsibilities

• Defines and manages product roadmap

• Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team

• Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)

• Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs

• Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development

• Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, data scientists, data engineers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features

• Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems

• Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Required/Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• In addition to required degree, four (4) years related work experience

• In lieu of bachelor's degree(s) AND 4 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 8 year(s) related work experience

​Desired Qualifications

• Certified SCRUM Product Owner and/or Certified SAFe

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• 7 or more years working in the utility industry

• Experience as a Senior Product Analyst

• Agile Product Owner certification

• "Black Belt" Six Sigma certification

• Experience with Jira, MIRO and Figma

Working Conditions

• Hybrid – Work will be performed from both remote and onsite location. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable commute to the designated Duke Energy facility.

• Office environment mostly, often with research, analysis or engagement conducted in plants or field

Specific Requirements

• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping software

• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team

• Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate

• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities

• Act as the central point of coordination across product, analytics, IT, and business teams to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and execution.

• Lead collaborative efforts with stakeholders to integrate marketing insights, campaign performance data, and customer feedback into product enhancements.

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively influence across all management and organizational levels

• Strong understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases

• Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment

• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you have the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals

• Ensuring successful deployments with minimal post-launch issues.

• Addressing challenges like underperforming developers.

• Strategic Business Partnering: Collaborates with business stakeholders to align HER product features with enterprise goals, regulatory requirements, and customer engagement strategies.<