AGILE PRODUCT OWNER JOB DESCRIPTION

Ownership of the product backlog is specific. It means one person holds the authority to accept or reject sprint output, sequence user stories by business value, and say no to scope that does not serve the program. The Agile Product Owner in enterprise software delivery sits inside a scrum team and answers to a broader release train or product management layer, making judgment calls daily about what gets built next and why. SAFe adoption across large software organizations has made this role one of the most structured in the delivery chain, with ceremonies, planning increments, and cadenced reviews creating a rhythm that demands both technical fluency and stakeholder confidence. The backlog is never done.

As the Agile Product Owner, you own the team backlog end to end, translating business priorities and user research into sequenced, acceptance-criteria-backed user stories that a scrum team can act on within a single iteration. You work within an enterprise software environment, reporting into product management or a Release Train Engineer, and carry decision-making authority over sprint scope on behalf of the stakeholder community.

Career Impact: Sustained delivery in a SAFe or scaled agile environment, with a certified CSPO or SAFe POPM credential behind you, builds the kind of product ownership track record that opens doors to Principal Product Owner and Product Manager roles in enterprise organizations.

Business Impact: When the backlog is well-sequenced and acceptance criteria are clear, scrum teams ship the right features on time; when it is not, sprints drift, releases slip, and engineering capacity is wasted on work that does not reflect what customers actually need.

Growth Opportunity: The scope of this role expands naturally toward Agile Release Train-level coordination, where a Product Owner moves from managing one team's backlog to influencing program increment plans across multiple teams and product lines.

• Own the team backlog, including creation, prioritization, and sequencing of epics, features, and user stories to maximize business value within each sprint.
• Define acceptance criteria for all user stories and formally accept completed work throughout each iteration across multiple define-build-test cycles.
• Represent stakeholder requirements and product vision to the scrum team, serving as the primary point of contact for scope decisions during development.
• Collaborate with product management and Release Train Engineers during program increment planning to align team-level work with program-level priorities.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements, identify impediments, and maintain alignment on product direction between sprint cycles.
• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions and agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, to sustain team cadence.
• Validate that delivered functionality accurately reflects source requirements and business needs before accepting stories as complete.
• Monitor product performance and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience based on feedback gathered between releases.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 or more years of experience as a product owner or product manager in an agile software delivery environment, with demonstrated backlog ownership.
• Active certification as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or equivalent agile credential.
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into well-formed user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria.
• Competency in scaled agile frameworks, including SAFe, with experience in multi-team or program increment planning environments.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to present priorities clearly to both technical development teams and non-technical leadership.
• Experience applying economic prioritization techniques, including weighted shortest job first or similar value-based sequencing methods.
• Analytical and organizational skills sufficient to manage a multi-application backlog while maintaining dependency visibility across teams.

• Advanced SQL or data querying competency to independently validate that integrated data attributes reflect source system intent accurately.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, enabling informed acceptance decisions on software delivered through automated deployment workflows.
• Experience working within a formal Agile Center of Excellence or product owner guild, contributing to standards and coaching other product owners.
• Prior work experience in a technical role, such as software development, QA, or systems analysis, provides a foundation for evaluating technical feasibility during backlog grooming.

• Backlog readiness rate, measuring the percentage of stories sprint-ready at least one cycle ahead of planning.
• Story acceptance rate per sprint, reflecting how consistently delivered work meets defined acceptance criteria on first review.
• Sprint goal achievement rate, tracking the proportion of committed sprint goals fully met at the end of each iteration.
• Stakeholder alignment score from quarterly NPS or survey instruments targeting product management and scrum team leads.
• Defect escape rate post-sprint, counting production defects traced to stories accepted without adequate acceptance criteria.
• Typical tools: agile backlog management (commonly Jira or Azure DevOps); documentation and collaboration (commonly Confluence)

• Base Salary Range: $95,000 to $135,000 annually, depending on seniority and location
• Bonus: Annual performance bonus of 8 to 15 percent of base salary
• Equity: RSUs or stock options are common at mid-to-large software companies
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution varies by company size
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually, plus public holidays; unlimited PTO offered at some employers
• Common Perks: SAFe or Scrum certification reimbursement; remote or hybrid work options; learning stipends

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Background check completion is a condition of employment for all positions. A United States work authorization is required; sponsorship availability varies by employer. All applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities are available throughout the application and employment process upon request.

The Agile Product Owner leads end-to-end product delivery across client data management processes, including KYC, AML, and onboarding, shaping platform strategy from initial value proposition through final implementation. Reporting to key regional and global business stakeholders, this role bridges business and technology teams at Credit Suisse to ensure solutions meet program priorities while maintaining technical integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure all parties are aware of project scope, expected and realized benefits, timelines, technical limitations, and business impact.
• Actively manage agile project progress against quality standards, targets, and budgets, challenging actions, results, and activities.
• Define and deliver the minimum viable product, then build it out to capture full business value in an agile manner.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and issues, and drive respective mitigations.
• Assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for integration, functional, performance, and user acceptance testing.
• Ensure compliance with established guidelines for accurate and timely project delivery milestones.
• Define and implement the automation strategy and platform vision for key client data management processes.
• Resolve production issues on the owned platform.
• Form and maintain the product vision in partnership with key business stakeholders.
• Represent the product vision and functional requirements of the stakeholder community to the delivery team, serving as the first source of information.
• Define and prioritize the product roadmap and team backlog such that the solution effectively addresses program priorities while maintaining technical integrity.
• Lead and mentor team members on how to execute the product vision and roadmap.
• Co-lead sprint team ceremonies, including daily stand-ups and planning sessions, and work with the team to decompose stories into development tasks.
• Identify stakeholder needs and negotiate priorities between competing stakeholder interests.
• Keep customers and users apprised of status and gather feedback by testing and validating hypotheses regarding their needs.
• Identify, establish, and maintain strategic relationships with key internal and external decision-makers and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, economics, or technology.
• Five years of experience in client relationship management covering static data, onboarding, KYC, and AML, and ten or more years of experience in private banking or wealth management.
• Strong project management and product management skills.
• Experience presenting to or advising executive-level management with a strong consulting mindset.
• Understanding of the agile development process and JIRA management.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Analytical and confident personality with strong relationship-building skills.
• Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure.

Embedded within a large enterprise agile environment, the Agile Product Owner owns and manages the team backlog for applications being integrated into data platforms, continuously engaging with business and technology stakeholders to align priorities with customer needs. Working closely with leadership and cross-functional teams, this role delivers analytical and reporting value by ensuring data attributes accurately reflect source systems and advancing team maturity through agile principles.

Core Functions

• Continuously engage with the business, technology, and other key stakeholders to stay informed, nurture strong and trusting relationships, and represent product vision and customer needs to the team.
• Create, own, and manage the team backlog for several applications being integrated into data platforms, constantly collaborating with customers and the team to ensure work items are refined and prioritized.
• Analyze and map system data into data platforms to meet reporting and analytical business needs.
• Test and validate data attributes based on source data and results from other systems to ensure data accurately reflects the source system and business needs.
• Provide context for, prioritize, and accept work demonstrated by the agile team, ensuring the right value is delivered.
• Identify opportunities to improve product performance and customer experience.
• Help identify organizational impediments and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them.
• Exemplify agile principles and encourage good practices and team maturity.
• Help identify and raise obstacles and allow the team to self-organize.

Required Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe POPM certification.
• Experience as a product owner in a large enterprise utilizing scaling practices, including experience in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Three to five years of advanced SQL skills for data analysis.
• Technical understanding of data models, such as the Teradata Financial Data Model or the Industry-Specific Common Data Model.
• Experience with agile frameworks, values, and principles.
• Proficiency in Confluence, JIRA, or similar agile tooling (implied by SAFe/enterprise context).
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including coaching and mentorship qualities.
• Excellent decision-making, problem resolution, listening, and team-building skills.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work with various levels of leadership.

Reporting to the Used Digital Team Lead, the Agile Product Owner shapes and executes the Global Used Equipment digital vision and strategy across a platform supporting Caterpillar and more than 140 dealers worldwide. Partnering with customers, dealers, and internal business units to gather voice-of-customer insights, this role builds out core applications and drives product backlog prioritization to deliver measurable business value.

Primary Duties

• Steer the platform to ensure delivery of business value.
• Engage with customers, dealers, and internal partners across business units to gather voice-of-customer and voice-of-business insights, driving product improvement.
• Communicate updates and product plans to impacted audiences.
• Clearly communicate the vision at the beginning of every release and sprint so the team understands and is equipped to realize it.
• Make business decisions and clearly communicate requirements through epics and stories so they are understood.
• Provide boundaries to describe the realities within which the vision must be realized, including time frames, quality, and budget.
• Create, maintain, prioritize, and sequence the product backlog based on business value or ROI.
• Create user stories and acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for a single sprint.
• Prioritize user stories by business value and decide which are scheduled into sprints.
• Participate in product planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Review and accept or reject demonstrable code after every sprint.
• Develop and maintain standards for testing and progress visibility.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in the used equipment business and/or the used digital market.
• At least five years of experience in business, requirements analysis, and writing agile stories.
• Experience working with and/or managing digital applications that support the business.
• Experience leading an agile team and working with dealers to solve problems.
• Demonstrated experience using influencing skills to lead others toward goals.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated project management and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to global audiences and collaborative partners in both schedule and style.

Sitting at the intersection of product strategy and agile execution, the Agile Product Owner owns the product roadmap and translates stakeholder needs into prioritized epics, features, and user stories that guide software development teams toward maximum business value. Operating across internal and external customer groups, senior management, and cross-functional delivery teams, this role delivers product alignment within wireless technology environments, including device and RAN.

Duties

• Work with internal and external customers to analyze needs and align the product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Own the product roadmap.
• Develop a scope and define backlog items such as epics, features, and user stories that guide the agile software development team.
• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analysis to stay on track toward business deliverable commitments.
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies, and apply product data to make business decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value aligned with product strategy.
• Identify and help stakeholders understand the business model, value, and value proposition.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and serve as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
• Represent the team in front of stakeholders, clients, or users.
• Work closely with product management and senior management to create a product that fits the company's portfolio.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience with minimum marketable features and minimum viable products.
• Deep understanding of and experience with agile methodologies.
• Overall understanding of wireless technologies, including device and RAN.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience developing relationships with team members and customers.
• Organizational, time management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

A key member of the product and development team, the Agile Product Owner builds and maintains a prioritized product backlog by gathering inputs from all business areas and translating them into clear requirements that reflect changing objectives and customer experience standards. Collaborating across marketing, operations, and development functions, this role advances B2B and B2B2C web-based solutions within the healthcare insurance industry, ensuring delivery teams operate with an informed and customer-aligned product vision.

What You'll Do

• Gather inputs, insights, and needs from all business areas to translate them into product requirements to be added to the backlog.
• Refine, challenge, discuss, and set priorities within the product backlog based on changing requirements, business objectives, and the yearly project plan.
• Act as the voice of the customer and business in front of development teams, and work with them to develop and test new features while monitoring product progress at each stage.
• Work with the marketing team to define look and feel, text, and all aspects related to usability and customer experience for every asset.
• Follow competitors in the industry and keep up with standards, tendencies, and best practices, identifying potential new features to be developed.
• Apply knowledge of business processes to proactively identify improvements in processes or systems within the operations department.

Experience & Qualifications

• Technical degree preferred.
• Agile or SAFe Product Owner certification is valued.
• At least three years of experience as a product owner, project manager, or business analyst in an agile or SAFe environment.
• At least three years of experience with B2B and B2B2C web-based solutions and platforms.
• Experience working in an agile or Scrum environment, including writing user stories, participating in agile ceremonies, and involvement in program increment planning.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with an IT background, particularly related to web platforms.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and business audiences in Spanish and English at B2 level or above.
• Experience working with various areas simultaneously and cross-functional teams.
• Diplomatic, with strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills, and adept at adjusting to changing circumstances.
• Proactive and resilient, ideally with experience in the healthcare insurance industry.
• Proficiency in standard office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Maximizing business value delivered across the Agile Release Train depends on the Agile Product Owner, who identifies, decomposes, and prioritizes user stories within iterations to ensure teams operate at a sustainable pace aligned with program goals. Serving as the link between product management and agile delivery teams, this role applies economic prioritization tools, empathy maps, and journey maps to guide design choices and ensure consumer-centric outcomes.

Accountabilities

• Identify, communicate, and decompose business requirements into small, estimated, functional, vertical user stories that fit within a single iteration.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements in the form of acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize and sequence stories to maximize business value delivered while maintaining a sustainable pace for the team.
• Accept user stories as done throughout the iteration with multiple define-build-test cycles.
• Work with the product management team to ensure vision, goals, and objectives are established and achieved.
• Participate in team and Agile Release Train ceremonies.
• Apply an agile mindset and behavior to effectively collaborate with the Agile Release Train, team, and stakeholders.
• Leverage agile estimation, forecasting, and economic prioritization tools.
• Make critical decisions regarding functionality and priority for the team with a focus on delivering value.
• Use various tools, including personas, empathy maps, journey maps, and story maps, to guide design choices and describe customer experiences.

Background & Experience

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager.
• Demonstrated track record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis.
• Experience serving in an analytical role, such as business or systems analysis.
• Extensive knowledge of agile values, principles, and mindset, with at least five years of experience in a product owner or product manager role.
• Proficiency using Confluence, JIRA, Clarity, and Jira Align.
• Strong technical acumen and systems thinking.
• Consumer-centric focus with experience managing user experience components.
• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions simply and logically.
• Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
• Self-driven, with strong project management and organizational skills.

As the Agile Product Owner, this role curates a clear and prioritized backlog within a specific product domain, translating business needs into technical requirements and communicating product development progress through sprint reviews and stakeholder demonstrations. The product owner community at the organization relies on this work to advance enterprise-wide product vision, with the Agile Center of Excellence providing a collaborative network for ongoing growth.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Curate a clear, prioritized backlog of items supporting an efficient build within a specific product domain.
• Work closely within the product scrum team, clearly communicating and translating business needs into technical requirements for developers.
• Engage with stakeholders across departments and levels to understand priorities, gather requirements for development, and gain alignment on the product vision.
• Collaborate with other product owners within the organization, supporting the overall enterprise vision and promoting the vision for the product.
• Communicate clearly and frequently with leadership and stakeholders on product development, including demonstrations, sprint reviews, and ceremonies as needed.
• Partner with colleagues within the Agile Center of Excellence for Product Owners to promote growth and development within the product owner community.

Professional Experience

• Undergraduate degree.
• Three to five years of experience within agile or as a product owner.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Jira Software is recommended.
• Experience in healthcare is recommended.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Highly organized, disciplined, flexible, and self-motivated.

Agile Product Owner oversees product backlog health and delivery quality across new development and maintenance work, ensuring teams produce outcomes that meet completeness and quality standards while managing iteration planning and dependency coordination. The work directly supports efficient stakeholder communication, team flow, and the timely fulfillment of product launch schedules in line with client commitments.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Build, edit, and maintain the team backlog as the primary responsibility.
• Maintain a healthy balance of new development and maintenance work.
• Maximize the value produced by the team and ensure deliveries meet the expected quality and completeness.
• Prepare iteration planning events and coordinate dependencies.
• Maintain good flow within the team and understand enabler work.
• Facilitate efficient communication between the team and stakeholders.
• Participate in team demos and retrospectives.
• Understand the needs and gains of customers, map user journeys, and present findings confidently to stakeholders.
• Research and work with customers and teams to generate hypotheses around customer needs and issues, including costs and benefits, with emphasis on maximizing value.
• Shape the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog, crafting and elaborating the artefacts needed to create a flow of value.
• Find creative ways to elicit needs and information in a global and remote working environment.
• Support improving team mindset and skills by mentoring and coaching on product thinking and design thinking.
• Ensure product launch schedules are fulfilled in line with client commitments.
• Communicate with software vendors to source required information or solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience leading teams to execute high-quality deliverables within stipulated timelines.
• Experience managing agile projects with personal accountability.
• Ability to manage multiple agile teams simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and people management skills.
• Awareness of vehicle-level attribute targets and the fundamentals of vehicle dynamics.

The Agile Product Owner produces a well-maintained and balanced team backlog, coordinating iteration planning, dependency management, and enabler work to maximize value and delivery quality within data warehousing and business intelligence services. Reporting through standard agile ceremonies and working across customer-facing and internal stakeholder groups, this role supports a solution-oriented team environment through clear communication and structured time management.

Role Responsibilities

• Build, edit, and maintain the team backlog as the primary responsibility.
• Maintain a healthy balance of new development and maintenance work.
• Maximize the value produced by the team and ensure deliveries meet the expected quality and completeness.
• Prepare iteration planning events and coordinate dependencies.
• Maintain good flow within the team and understand enabler work.
• Facilitate efficient communication between the team and stakeholders.
• Participate in team demos and retrospectives.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field.
• Previous product owner experience and experience with agile ways of working.
• Knowledge of data warehousing and a passion for business intelligence services development and maintenance.
• Excellent communication skills, including proficiency in English, and strong presentation skills.
• Excellent time management, stakeholder management, planning, and execution skills.
• Customer-centric and solution-oriented mindset.
• Open-minded, structured, and self-driven team player with a can-do attitude in complex situations.

Reporting to internal and external stakeholders, the Agile Product Owner develops a clear product vision for spectroscopy software solutions and drives implementation by translating stakeholder requirements into user stories and managing the product backlog alongside development teams. Working closely with software engineers and business stakeholders, this role advances agile ways of working and monitors implementation progress to grow customer value.

Job Functions

• Develop the vision for the spectroscopy solution and drive implementation to increase customer value.
• Collect requirements from internal and external stakeholders and translate them into user stories.
• Manage the product backlog together with development teams.
• Foster agile ways of working and drive further improvement.
• Monitor implementation progress.

Position Requirements

• Degree in computer science or a comparable field.
• Preferred certification as an agile product owner in Scrum or a similar framework.
• Experience as an agile product owner in software engineering.
• Familiarity with cloud technology and Azure DevOps.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both software engineers and stakeholders.

Reporting to internal teams and external customers, the Agile Product Owner refines and maintains a prioritized product backlog of epics and user stories for agile scrum teams, serving as the primary evangelist of product vision while ensuring each sprint delivery meets defined quality standards. Partnering with architecture teams, scrum masters, and cross-functional stakeholders, this role ensures product integrity is maintained throughout implementation and that development teams have a clear understanding of technical and business value.

Scope of Work

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand product requirements.
• Translate product requirements into epics and user stories.
• Maintain a prioritized set of user stories on the product backlog for agile scrum teams to implement.
• Ensure user stories and epics are traceable and that high-level requirements are maintained.
• Define acceptance criteria for user stories and approve user stories once satisfied that the acceptance criteria have been met.
• Work closely with agile scrum teams during refinement and implementation of user stories, providing input, advice, and clarifications when needed.
• Ensure agile scrum teams have a clear understanding of what they are developing and the technical and business value it delivers to the customer.
• Engage with the architecture team to ensure the product's architectural integrity is maintained during user story implementation.
• Act as an evangelist of the product vision and value to all stakeholders.
• Ensure the overall quality of each sprint delivery.
• Manage stakeholder expectations with respect to delivery capability and release planning.

Technical Qualifications

• Agile product owner certification.
• Minimum five years of experience working in the software industry in a technically oriented role, such as developer, tester, support, or technical business analyst.
• One to two years of previous experience working as an agile product owner or in a similar role.
• Knowledge or experience of working in DevOps environments and with Linux, scripting languages such as Python, and programming languages such as Java.
• Knowledge of DevOps, including CI/CD environments and tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence.
• Knowledge of agile estimation and planning techniques.
• Skilled in agile software development processes with a focus on delivering quality software.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Strong understanding of how to maintain quality in an evolving product.
• Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Analytical with good problem-solving skills and a positive attitude when faced with challenges.
• Adaptable and open to taking on new roles, values, behaviors, and approaches continuously.
• Collaborative approach to finding solutions, with a preference for direct communication over tools and processes.

Sitting at the intersection of systems engineering and agile program management, the Agile Product Owner Liaison oversees operational visibility, interdependency management, and tempo across multiple Agile Release Trains by acting as a liaison between product owners, DO Leaders, and Release Train Engineers. Operating across NORAD ITW/AA and NISSC environments, this role strengthens client communication and documentation governance to ensure program objectives are met and issues are mitigated across decision-making groups.

Engineering Responsibilities

• Independently evaluate, select, adapt, and modify standard techniques and criteria to plan and conduct engineering assignments.
• Independently plan, schedule, and conduct or coordinate detailed phases of engineering work through the selection and adaptation of techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Analyze complex features of work and apply principles and practices of the discipline, or devise new approaches to problem solutions.
• Thoroughly review all results from assigned tasks and determine whether outputs are complete, correct, integrated with project objectives, and adequately documented.
• Apply concepts for developing and establishing systems engineering databases, templates, requirements, and test and modeling tools.
• Accomplish tasks of moderate scope and solve problems requiring the investigation of a select number of variables.
• Interpret requirements and perform analyses to ensure objectives are met.
• Attend and participate in periodic large-scale agile planning events and ceremonies.
• Support standard agile ritual meetings, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, and assist Release Train Engineers, scrum masters, and scrum teams in the execution of sprints.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three to five years of related engineering experience, a master's degree with six to eight years of related engineering experience, or a PhD with two to five years of related engineering experience.
• Experience in independently evaluating, selecting, adapting, and modifying standard techniques and criteria to plan and conduct engineering assignments.
• Experience planning, scheduling, conducting, and coordinating detailed phases of engineering work through the selection and adaptation of techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Experience with NORAD ITW/AA and legacy space mission systems.
• Experience working on NISSC products and applications.
• Experience with MBSE and associated tools.
• Experience with agile principles and related tools, databases, and processes.

A key member of a global and remote product team, the Agile Product Owner advances product thinking and design thinking capabilities by shaping the product vision, strategy, and roadmap while mentoring team members on lean startup and user research techniques. Collaborating across multiple locations with customers, development teams, and stakeholders, this role produces a clear flow of value through user personas, empathy maps, story mapping, and the elaboration of backlog artefacts.

Areas of Ownership

• Understand the needs and gains of customers, map user journeys, and present findings confidently to stakeholders.
• Research and work with customers and teams to generate hypotheses around customer needs and issues, including costs and benefits, with emphasis on maximizing value.
• Shape the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog, crafting and elaborating the artefacts needed to create a flow of value.
• Find creative ways to elicit needs and information in a global and remote working environment.
• Support improving team mindset and skills by mentoring and coaching on product thinking and design thinking.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience with lean start-up and design thinking techniques, including user personas, user journeys, minimum viable products, and empathy maps.
• Experience with product management techniques, including product vision and strategy, roadmaps, product analytics, user research, design and wireframing, impact mapping, story mapping, and story writing.
• Experience working in an agile environment using Scrum or Kanban, and the ability to work at scale.
• Ability to work globally across multiple locations with strong written, spoken, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Understanding of current challenges facing brake engineering.