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Role Summary:

The Sr. Product Owner is responsible for the technical life cycle of the digital products they have been assigned, including coordinating development efforts, configuration changes, and support. The Sr. Product Owner is responsible for documenting technical requirements, building product roadmaps, and budgeting associated with the products they oversee. The Sr. Product Owner will collaborate with internal stakeholders, developers, and vendors regularly to deliver new products and enhance existing products that meet the documented business objectives of the products they support. The Sr. Product Owner will coordinate the lifecycle of their product through agile practices. The Sr. Product owner will also mentor other Product Owners.

What You Will Be Doing:

1. Understands business and end-user needs; and can identify and prioritize features to be delivered to meet those needs
2. Actively participate in Agile ceremonies to ensure development efforts remain aligned with business objectives, the product vision, and user needs
3. Demonstrate accountability by facilitating stakeholders’ inspection & reviews of delivered functionality, leading planning sessions to clarify priorities, and maintaining transparent communication throughout the development lifecycle
4. Negotiate deliverables based on team capacity and learning and adapt plans iteratively to reflect evolving priorities and validated outcomes
5. Develop near and long-term rolling-wave product roadmaps in close collaboration with business owners to ensure alignment with business objectives and related outcomes. Continuously refine the roadmap based on stakeholder input, delivery data, and validated learnings from actual product outcomes versus hypothesized value. With a focus on building roadmaps for the next year.
6. Define and track key product success metrics to evaluate value delivery, inform prioritization, and communicate outcomes to stakeholders. Use data and feedback to validate hypotheses, guide decision-making, and continuously improve product performance and valuable outcomes
7. Leverage expert understanding of product strengths and weaknesses to maximize value delivery, identify opportunities for enhancement, and inform stakeholders of potential process improvements and strategic possibilities
8. Analyze end user feedback and operational metrics, to identify and understand product needs
9. Direct and oversee the lifecycle of three (3) or more products by independently managing and prioritizing their respective product backlogs in collaboration with business owners and technical stakeholders to balance functional and non-functional needs. Operate with minimal oversight, ensuring a steady flow of user stories ready for development two (2) to four (4) weeks in advance
10. Collaborate with business owners and technical stakeholders to develop and document