IT Product Owner - Costco Travel

Costco Travel 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 Travel 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 Product Owner partners with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate product strategy and problem solving into a detailed, and prioritized backlog of user stories. Product Owners collaborate with an agile delivery team to implement, measure, and learn from the improvements they have made. This individual serves 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. The Product Owner will manage the execution of the portfolio’s product features, and delivery roadmap for Costco Travel that are aligned to KPI's that integrate both internal and external stakeholder requirements.

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

 ●      Creates and authors user stories with detailed acceptance criteria written in the customers’ voice.

●      Collaborates with the team to prepare the estimates for the user stories within the product backlog.

●      Conducts the formal review and acceptance of user stories implemented by a team within a sprint.

●      Supports business strategy by forming a backlog of features and user stories for use by the delivery team.

●      Articulates requirements for each user story with detailed acceptance criteria.

●      Uses data and insights from multiple sources that benefits the business and our members.

●      Pursues incremental delivery by looking for ways to meet business goals and learn from members, and end users through frequent, and measurable enhancements.

●      Works collaboratively and uses best practices with the delivery team to suppor