JOB PROFILE
DEPARTMENT
Product
JOB TITLE
Product Owner I
MANAGER TITLE
Product Manager III
The Product Owner is a critical member of an Agile engineering team that drives the team to deliver high quality, high value features and functions. As a Product Owner, you will help shape our product vision, features and requirements while working closely with engineering Scrum teams, Product Management and stakeholders to build high-quality products for our target markets.
The Product Owner is responsible for managing the team backlog, working with the team to break down user stories, define acceptance criteria, and prioritize work in order to optimize the business value produced by the team. The Product Owner must also communicate with stakeholders both internally and externally, share progress towards product delivery with other parts of the organization and the user community. The Product Owner needs to have an excellent understanding of the customer's needs and be able to represent those needs to the team.
Responsibilities
• Support Product Management by creating epics and user stories to enable applicable development for at least 2 sprints of prioritized user stories
• Work closely with the Scrum team to help clarify stories as required
• Compile test results to provide data for use in solving problems
• Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans
• Work with Product Owner to clarify and estimate feature work
• Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Bachelors’ degree in business, computer science or equivalent field plus c 2 years’ experience working as a business analyst, product manager, product owner or similar role OR equivalent experience
• Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
• Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
• Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
• Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
• Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational, time management and multi-tasking skills
• Understanding of product and sprint backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and work breakdowns
• Understands the fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker with a vision
• Excellent attention to detail
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
• Domain experience in the petroleum industry