Vervint is looking for a Lead Product Owner/Analyst to provide oversight, guidance, and quality assurance for the Product Owner/Analyst team supporting client modernization initiatives. This role will establish standards, mentor analysts, and ensure consistency and alignment across requirements, backlogs, and delivered product increments.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in requirements management, backlog strategy, and stakeholder facilitation.
- Deep understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
- Experience working with technical delivery teams and external vendors.
- Proven ability to coach, influence, and set standards across teams without direct people management.
- At least 8-10 years of experience in business analysis, product ownership, or agile delivery roles, including at least 2 years of experience in functional leadership, mentoring, or lead responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Oversee requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and traceability across multiple initiatives or product increments.
- Ensure consistent application of user-centered design and inclusion of system users throughout design, development, and testing.
- Guide backlog strategy and health, including epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization.
- Lead or support complex discovery sessions, stakeholder workshops, and design reviews.
- Ensure requirements and backlog items align with the project roadmap, policy direction, funding constraints, and technical architecture.
- Provide oversight and guidance on agile practices and Scrum ceremonies across product increment teams.
- Identify cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers and coordinate resolution with project and technical leadership.
Other
- Provide functional leadership, coaching, and day-to-day guidance to Product Owners/Analysts.
- Establish, maintain, and enforce standards, templates, and best practices for requirements, user stories, process documentation, and backlog management.
- Review, validate, and approve analyst work products to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business, policy, and technical needs.
- Support onboarding, training, and professional development of analyst team members.
- Assist leadership with workload planning, prioritization, and analyst capacity management.
