The Senior Product Owner defines user stories, prioritizes the backlog, collaborates with stakeholders, and ensures the team delivers customer-centric features through Agile methodologies.
Define user stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline execution of product priorities ensuring the team delivers value to the business through well-executed sprints and customer-centric features.
Essential Responsibilities
Education & Years of Experience
In Lieu of Education
License/Certifications/Training
Compensation & Benefits:
Typical hiring range: $69,600.00 to $108,300.00 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge.
Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:
*Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.
Essential Responsibilities
- Define, refine, and validate user stories with clear acceptance criteria ensuring the stories are aligned with the organization's priorities.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog based on customer needs and stakeholder input.
- Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and convert them into features using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, and/or other means
- Act as the voice of the customer within development teams.
- Collaborate with developers, designers, and QA to ensure business needs are translated into appropriate technical specifications for a successful delivery.
- Participate in regular scrum ceremonies such as planning, backlog grooming, sprint review, daily stand-up, and sprint retrospective.
- Monitor threats, risks, and opportunities that might affect the success of projects and communicate them when appropriate.
- Assist and participate in product lifecycle such as ideation, development, launch, growth and ongoing maintenance.
Education & Years of Experience
- Minimum - 4 Years Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Technology, Business or related
- Minimum - 2 Years of Agile/Scrum Methodologies or related
In Lieu of Education
- 6 Years of Agile/Scrum Methodologies or related in (specific domain)
License/Certifications/Training
- Preferred - Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Compensation & Benefits:
Typical hiring range: $69,600.00 to $108,300.00 Annually. Actual compensation will be determined using factors such as experience, skills & knowledge.
Benefits: Alliant provides a benefits package including health care, vision, dental, and 401k with employer match including:
- Annual performance bonus
- Work from home up to 3 days a week
- Paid parental leave
- Employee discount programs
- Time off including paid personal and sick days
- 11 paid holidays
- Education reimbursement
*Note that eligibility and cost of benefits can vary depending on the number of regularly scheduled hours, and job status such as regular full-time, regular part-time, or temporary employment.
Top Skills
Agile
Scrum
Alliant Credit Union Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
We are located near O'Hare. We have plenty of parking space available.
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