IT Product Owner

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 Product Owner will partner with the Product Management and Stakeholders to translate product strategy and problem solving into a detailed, prioritized backlog of user stories. The Product Owner will collaborate with an Agile Delivery team to implement, measure, and learn from the improvements they have made. The Product Owner manages execution of the value stream product features and delivery roadmap for Costco Ecommerce projects that are aligned to KPI's that measure the objectives of both Costco’s IT Division and line of Business Stakeholders.

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ROLE

●      Defines and communicates the minimum viable product (MVP) for a given application/product and the supporting release plans.

●      Collaborates with Product Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Systems Architects) to define new and or enhanced product requirements and functionality.

●      Collaborates with Product Managers to the support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap.

●      Works continuously/daily with teams to provide answers, feedback and direction on work items, enablers, user stories, etc.

●      Consults Product Managers for guidance and clarity on the product vision, roadmap, requirements, etc.

●      Collaborates with Scrum Masters to ensure the work managed by teams achieves the highest value relative to

needs/priority of the business.

●      Collaborates with Scrum Masters and teams to define the sprint plan based on the priority outlined within the overall product vision and roadmap.

●      Prioritizes the sprint backlog (as part of the sprint planning ceremony) based on the sequencing/ranking of features defined in the product roadmap.

●      Refines product requirements based on the input obtained through sprint showcases/demos. 

●      Creates and authors user stories with detailed acceptance crit