Senior Product Owner - Hybrid (Atlanta, GA.)

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Our Newest Opportunity: 

The Senior Product Owner will be primarily responsible for understanding client needs, reviewing strategies with stakeholders, writing stories, and working with directly with IT, product engineering, Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers, and business operations teams to bring new digital solutions to life. The Senior Product Owner acts as the "keeper (and communicator) of the vision" to translate the product strategy and vision developed with business stakeholders into what the product team must bear in mind every day to ensure they are building the right product. Our ideal candidate will be experienced with agile methodologies, including backlog management and prioritization, including user story and acceptance criteria definition and scrum team management. Communicates business unit and product goals, objectives and priorities in a persuasive manner that builds support, agreement, and commitment. This role will be responsible for developing product strategies, vision and roadmaps that align with the architecture and technology direction of the business unit, consistent with enterprise priorities as agreed with product-line management.

The five key areas of responsibilities for the Senior Product Owner role include:

• Delivering Value
• Exploring Markets and Users
• Supporting Data and Reporting Team
• Managing and Prioritizing the ART (Agile Release Train) Backlog
• Connecting with the Customer and Defining Product Strategy
• And Vision and Roadmaps

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Working knowledge of product development architecture
• Help define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Cleaning and translation of user submitted requests into technical backlog items.
• Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Act as a Scrum Master, facilitating all Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Head up communication to the business on released enhancements or major announcements regarding the product.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Coordinate with stakeholders and app/devs on testing/QA of completed tasks.
• Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Must be able to understand technical issues well enough to make the right decisions about when to prioritize getting a new feature, rather than when to reduce technical debt or improve resiliency.
• Establish and maintain relationships with the key business and technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate and drive alignment among key stakeholders,
• Work with key stakeholders to make frequent and dynamic prioritization decisions.
• Define, track and communicate key product performance indicators as required to inform this process, and track business results.
• Define the product roadmap based on business outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with product delivery teams.
• Regularly test the latest daily or weekly build
• Collaborate and coordinate with other Senior Product Owners.
• Coordinate with other stakeholders such as business, data, and IT architects to align product and platform architectures and capabilities according to agreed goals for nonfunctional requirements.
• Accountable for operational readiness of product and services being delivered by engaging the right people from the business to accept, use and/or support new functionality