Seeking a Product Owner for a full time position in Boulder, CO
BridgeView IT has an immediate opportunity for an experienced Product Owner for a full-time salaried role with our client in Boulder.
Summary
The Product Owner closely collaborates with the agile team on a daily basis to guide and direct the team by actively managing the backlog, answering questions when they arise, providing feedback, and signing off work results.
Will work with multiple Product Managers and Internal Stakeholders to gain a thorough understanding of their needs and how their components will satisfy those needs. As a general function, will then represent the interests of the Product Managers and Internal Stakeholders to the agile team by describing, prioritizing, and communicating the requirements.
In addition, will be responsible to consider which activities will deliver the most business value and make the necessary decision.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in related discipline, or a combination of education and related experience.
5+ years’ Project Management or Product Management experience.
Strong organizational and time management skills.
Basic understanding of Agile development methodology in a SCRUM environment.
Ability to work well with others and resolve any conflicts that may arise between different viewpoints.
Ability to assess risks, dependencies, and identify mitigation strategies.
Strong ability to multi-task.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical skills.
Strong team player.
Skilled in leading meetings, setting agendas, driving decisions, and negotiating.
Responsibilities:
Acts as a liaison between the agile delivery team and business groups by communicating product and business vision, translating product needs into clear, well defined user stories.
Collaborates with Product Managers and Internal Stakeholders to manage and prioritize work backlogs.
Works with the Agile development team to specify and scope features as well as define acceptance criteria for those features.
Collaborates with Product Managers to understand and set the correct customer expectations regarding production delivery.
Works with Product Management to determine ongoing priorities and business values for functionality and stories.
Creates and maintains the teams’ backlog. This means creation of user stories with enough detail for the team to groom; manages which groomed stories are in the iteration; makes sure that there is an adequate supply of groomed stories.
Accepts the iteration and makes sure it is ready for deployment, once development and quality assurance are complete.
Plans with project management the releases of specific feature sets and key portions of multi-component initiatives, so they can be delivered to the market in a coordinated fashion.
Manages the Agile team for maximum productive velocity.
BridgeView IT is a technology placement firm assisting a national network of clients identify and hire the highest-caliber IT professionals. Our management and senior recruiting specialists have successfully supported the IT marketplace for over a decade and we have grown into a world class organization with operations coast to coast. BridgeView IT’s mission is to build long-lasting relationships through successful candidate placements, to conduct business with utmost professionalism and courtesy, and to achieve rewarding business performance results.
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