The Product Owner is responsible for maintaining the product backlog and guiding product enhancements, maintenance, and efficiencies. The role requires Agile experience, Integrated Risk Management knowledge, and communication skills.
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Product Owner
Duration: 11+ months (with high possibility of extension)
Job Description:
The Product Owner is responsible for maintaining the product backlog. Must have Integrated Risk Management (IRM) knowledge that guides, informs, and provides insight on what product enhancements, maintenance, and efficiencies are needed.
- Partners with the Product Manager to understand priorities and features; ensures the team’s backlog aligns to the roadmap.
- Responsible for ensuring that user stories are clear and concise with well-defined acceptance criteria and collaborates with stakeholders and scrum team to ensure stories are in a ready state.
- Responsible for owning the backlog of user stories including user story creation, refinement, and prioritization.
- Attends and actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies.
- Stakeholder management; accountable for scope trade-offs and timeline impacts.
- Stakeholder management; required to interact with 8-10 stakeholders with varied levels of technical IRM knowledge.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of the technical environment of ServiceNow IRM
- Responsible for accepting User Stories as meeting acceptance criteria during every sprint.
- Performs acceptance testing at story level and feature level.
- Writes UAT test scripts.
- Assists in release planning and supporting processes.
- Embraces Agile principles and applies a Lean Agile mindset.
- Ensures team risks and dependencies are identified and managed.
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills like analytical, problem solving, open-minded, creativity.
- Responsible for following team process and leveraging tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
- Fully Remote, EST working hours required, work within a distributed team environment.
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Qualifications - Required
- 5-10 years of experience as Product Owner
- Bachelor’s degree or similar work experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and application of Agile principles and frameworks, Scrum or Kanban teams
- Integrated Risk Management (IRM) experience
- Working knowledge of the technical environment of ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management
- Communication and interpersonal skills; both verbal and written
- Demonstrated stakeholder management skills
- Ability to support collaborative environment with scrum team and wide stakeholder group
- Critical thinking skills like analytical, problem solving, and open-minded curiosity
- Experience with product backlog management tool; Jira Cloud preferred
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About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Recruiter Details:
Name: Sridhar Tiwari
Email: Sridhar@ustechsolutionsinc.com
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