The Senior Product Owner defines and prioritizes user stories, manages the product backlog, and collaborates with teams to ensure successful feature delivery.
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
- 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.
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Top Skills
Agile
Product Backlog Management
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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