Guardian is seeking a multidimensional Agile leader to establish vision for an Agile team, prioritize and manage the health of the team backlog, and contribute significantly to team quality.
Requirements
- Extensive understanding of Agile Values, Principles, and approach with a minimum of 5 years’ experience serving as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
- Certified in Scaled Agile - SAFe® Product Owner (PO/PM)
- Knowledge of Disability Insurance products and administration
- Profound technical expertise and systems thinking
- Proficiency using Confluence, JIRA, Clarity, and Jira Align.
- Consumer centric focus with experience managing user experience components.
- Experience serving in an analytical role such as business or system analysis.
Responsibilities
- 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 enhance business value delivered while maintaining a balanced pace for the team.
- Accept user stories as done throughout the iteration with multiple define-build-test cycles.
- Apply an Agile approach and behavior to effectively collaborate with the Agile Release Train (ART), team and stakeholder(s).
- Leverage Agile estimation, forecasting and economic prioritization (WSJF) tools.
- Use various tools including personas to guide design choices, empathy maps to help teams understand user needs, journey maps to describe customer experiences across the operational value stream & story maps to design workflows.
Other
- Hybrid-Three days a week at a Guardian location in Pittsfield, MA.
- Self-driven with strong project management and organizational skills.
- Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
- Demonstrated track record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis.
- Equal Employment Opportunity: Guardian is an equal opportunity employer.
