Job Title: Sr. Product Owner
Introduction:
The Senior Product Owner supports the Product Manager in executing the product strategy, vision, and roadmap.
Their primary focus is serving as the team's agile Product Owner, or scrum product owner, responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by a scrum development team. This includes defining stories and prioritizing the team backlog. They work with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to understand product needs, assess the potential value in addressing those needs, and working cross-functionally to define, develop and deliver solutions.
The Senior Product Owner takes on one or more of these additional responsibilities: leads multiple agile development teams, defines the content for product releases, or take on full product manager responsibilities, including roadmap ownership, for a subset of the overall product. They may bring experience in a specific functional area such as UX design, software engineering, or business analysis. They may also have experience in a specific industry/field, such as retail operations or store IT.
Responsibilities:
- Build, prioritize, and maintain a clear, comprehensive product backlog
- Plan product release contents and timelines, drive execution to maximize the value shipped
- Voice of Customer to the engineering team, ensuring developers understand what to work on and why it is important
- Set goals for the development team and lead the team through the agile process, including planning, refinement, review, and sprints
- Serve as the product expert supporting internal and external stakeholders
- Perform any specific domain or functional responsibilities (i.e. if they were hired to bring UX expertise)
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent combination.
- 3+ years of experience as an agile product owner, leading development teams through planning, refinement, review, and sprint
- Dynamic, articulate, energetic and self-starter personality with demonstrated ability to translate product strategy and the product roadmap into executable development plans
- Proven results-driven individual with good business acumen; ability to understand the problem to be solved and deliver appropriate solutions that balances impact, effort, and alignment to objectives
- Strong interpersonal skills to establish report, credibility, and influence with others across the company
- Strong technical aptitude to learn, understand, and work with a variety of technologies, including hardware, APIs, databases, user interfaces, and various software architectures
- Strong Leadership skills with experience motivating and influencing cross-functional teams to achieve results
- Strong presentation and communication skills with an ability to simplify and clearly articulate concepts at all levels of the organization and across functions
- Experience driving solutions from concept to delivery, working cross-functionally to define, design, develop, deliver, and iterate
- Build, update, and prioritize the product backlog based on the product roadmap and business objectives
- Support marketing, services, and sales enablement in developing collateral, materials, and documentation
- Ability to work with program managers to plan, execute, and ship product releases
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in business, design, or a technical field
- Experience in a specific industry/domain, (for Toshiba, this will usually be retail store technology)
About the Company:
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is a dynamic billion-dollar global company based in Research Triangle Park, NC, providing retail store solutions to your favorite brands. Have you ever been in a hurry and made use of the self-checkout at Lowe's Foods, earned fuel rewards at Kroger, or just paid for purchases at retailers such as Walmart, Michaels, Carrefour, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Boots, Cencosud, BJ's, or Costco? These are just a few examples of our in-store solutions and impressive customer base that made us the world's installed market share leader.
The nature of retail is changing quickly, so if you share our 'Together Commerce' vision of a seamless two-way, participatory shopping experience, let's get together to drive the new economy.
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. offers a competitive salary and generous benefits package including the following:
- Group health coverage (medical, dental, & vision)
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Pre-tax spending accounts
- 401(k) plan w/ match
- Company provided life insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Employee discounts
- Generous paid holiday schedule, paid vacation & sick/personal days
EEO:
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation or any other protected factor. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should email [email protected] to request an accommodation
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:
We at Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions firmly believe that our people are an integral part to the success of our customers. Furthermore, we're committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all our people as highlighted by our5 Core Principles (Create Outreach, Foster Belonging, Unleash Opportunity, Diverse Cultural Engagement and Culture of Transparency). We're passionate about our customersthe retail industry and becoming a more responsible company as we help create a brighter future.
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