Product Owner II

Siemens - Raleigh, NC

Full-time - Entry Level

Raleigh, NC

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

The Product Owner plays a vital role in an agile team, ensuring the execution of Product Management's vision and business strategy to drive growth. This position involves transforming roadmap and product backlog items into high-value solutions, collaborating closely with development teams using agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to real-world market problems identified by Product Management's roadmap.
• Execute agile methodologies to fully develop solutions via story breakdown and agile ceremonies as a key member of an agile team.
• Communicate priorities and goals at the beginning of each sprint in accordance with release goals, roadmap, and associated timelines/dependencies.
• Participate in feature discovery with customers and the market to drive valuable solutions.
• Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog of work for the development team.
• Champion the customer experience and partner with UX/design, product counterparts, and professional services to deliver delightful user experiences.
• Understand Product Management's business strategy and execute it with agile development teams.
• Monitor KPI metrics and drive continuous improvements within the agile team.

Requirements

• BA/BS in a technical subject area like information science, computer science or equivalent work experience supporting products from a technical perspective.
• 1-3 Years of experience as Product Owner.
• Proficiency in backlog/roadmap management tools such as Jira or AHA!
• Experience in developing user stories and acceptance criteria and communicating business value to the engineering team.
• Strong evidence of working with engineering on communicating commitments and delivering results.
• Experience in Agile processes and principles.
• Superb communication skills for both oral and written communication; ability to communicate confidently across all levels in the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and analyze data to support decision making.
• Experience working with and influencing product development teams and driving them toward a common customer and business vision all the way through to delivery.
• A results-oriented, proactive, and self-sufficient work ethic.

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits