Sr Product Owner - Time & Attendance

Responsibilities

• Provide innovation and the end-to-end launch of integrated solutions/products across multiple Agile Teams

• Collaborate with Business Partners and Product Managers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment across multiple Agile Teams

• Work with senior stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization

• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria across multiple products or complex solutions

• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer

• Oversee the design, construction, and implementation of integrated solutions ensuring functionality meets business requirements

• Coach and mentor other Product Owners across multiple Agile Teams to build, refine, prioritize and maintain their Team backlogs

• Review, approve, and drive iteration content by prioritizing user stories and accept user stories as complete

• Define and prioritize solutions to complex issues and effectively communicate dependencies, risks, issues and cope for complex solutions

• Coach and mentor Product Owners and Scrum Masters in the successful delivery of Scrum ceremonies such as iteration planning, iteration reviews, and demos

• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to make decisions independently and demonstrate skills to support, guide, and mentor other Product Owners in the same business domain

• Ability to understand technical issues across multiple business systems and how business areas interact in order to drive toward the best solutions

• Ability to be analytical and problem solve with a high attention to detail

• Ability to show initiative by anticipating risks, issues and opportunities, and escalating them accordingly, while mentoring and coaching

• Skilled in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation across multiple stakeholders and levels in the organization

• Ability to search for opportunities, focus on business value and the Return On Investment and act proactively on possible risks and threats

• Ability to effectively manage complex tasks that are not well defined

• Ability to balance priority, risk, value, learning opportunities and dependencies and effectively uses product / Team backlog to manage them

• Ability to effectively communicate complex problems, risks, progress, or new ideas to diverse Stakeholders and influence direction

• Knowledge of industry trends and new technologies in order to provide innovative product guidance to the Business or Product Manager

• Expertise in Agile including the value and principles, and how they are applied in enterprise environments

Education

• Required: High School Diploma or GED

• Required: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience - BS, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field or the equivalent formal training

Experience

• Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in:

  • Agile and Scrum software development methodologies

  • Business analysis, project management, or software development delivering enterprise products and solutions

• Preferred: SAFe methodology experience

• Preferred: Experience with LPM and value stream mapping

• Preferred: Ability to work directly and productively with multiple Business groups to identify and prioritize needs

• Preferred: Ability to aggregate needs from multiple stakeholders in order to develop and maintain a strategic product roadmap

• Preferred: Ability to set priorities, clearly communicate them, and manage progress towards their accomplishment

Licensing/Certification

• N/A

Physical Abilities

• Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time

• Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job

• Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job

Other Qualifications

• Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines

• Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986

• Must be at least 18 years of age

• Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines

Pay & Benefits

• Competitive market salary from $118,600 per year to $131,800 per year* depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the company.
• Benefits you'll love:
• Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
• Up to a 9.3% 401(k) Company match, dollar for dollar, per paycheck *
• Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution toward retirement - when Southwest profits, you profit**
• Explore more Benefits you'll love:
• *Pay amount does not guarantee employment for any particular period of time.
• **401(k) match contributions are subject to the plan's vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits
• ***ProfitSharing contributions are subject to plan's vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company.