Zions Bancorporation is looking for a Product Owner to represent vision and customer needs to the team, answer questions, and facilitate conversations to get work done. The role involves providing context, prioritizing, and accepting work demoed by the agile team to ensure the right value is delivered. The individual will continuously engage with business, technology, and other stakeholders to stay informed, nurture relationships, and increase business knowledge to represent product vision, including technical enablers and managing technical debt.
Requirements
- Advanced working knowledge of the agile frameworks & scaling models, Agile Values and Principles and the Scrum Methodology including iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, iteration reviews and system demos, iteration retrospectives, PI Planning, Demos, Inspect & Adapt Workshops, Scrum-of-Scrums, PO Sync and ART Sync.
- Strong understanding of the broader product development lifecycle in large enterprise settings.
- Strong working knowledge in multiple agile practices: Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, XDD, Scrum@Scale, Nexus, SAFe, etc.
- Experience as a Product Owner within a large enterprise utilizing scaling practices, building complex solutions using teams of teams, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) & agile methodology experience required.
- Employing innovative mindsets & practices to product development (design-thinking, lean startup approach, MVP, rapid prototyping, frequent feedback cycles, customer centricity).
- Accelerating value delivery to customers, working with cross-functional teams to realize products.
- Contributing to the strategic creation & building out of products.
Responsibilities
- Responsible to represent vision and customer needs to the team, answering questions and facilitating conversations needed to get the work done.
- Responsible for providing context for, prioritizing and accepting the work demoed by the agile team, specifically ensuring the right value is delivered.
- Actively participates in team ceremonies as a proxy for the customer/business.
- Continuously engages with the business, technology and other key stakeholders to stay informed, nurturing strong and trusting relationships and increasing business knowledge to represent product vision, which includes technical enablers and managing technical debt.
- Creates, owns and manages the team backlog, constantly collaborating with customers and the team to ensure work items are refined and prioritized.
- Provides story detail and prioritizes via iteration planning and backlog refinement ceremonies.
- Accepts stories based on acceptance criteria and customer intent.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, mathematics, computer science or a related field and 6+ yrs experience contributing to the strategic creation & building out of products, accelerating value delivery to customers, working with cross-functional teams to realize products, employing innovative mindsets & practices to product development (design-thinking, lean startup approach, MVP, rapid prototyping, frequent feedback cycles, customer centricity).
- A combination of education and experience may meet job requirements.
- Strong presentation, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
- Strong decision making, problem resolution, listening and team building skills.
- Strong planning, organizational, analytical and communication skills, both written and verbal.
