Product Owner

About T-Mobile:T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, connecting millions through its strong nationwide network and flagship brands, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile. Customers benefit from an unmatched combination of value, quality, and exceptional service experience.About TMUS Global Solutions:TMUS Global Solutions is a world-class technology powerhouse accelerating the company’s global digital transformation. With a culture built on growth, inclusivity, and global collaboration, the teams here drive innovation at scale, powered by bold thinking.TMUS India Private Limited operates as TMUS Global Solutions.About the Role:Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Technical Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and is the single point of contact to the Dev team and Customer team for user story details. PO is responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing the Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team.In this capacity the PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. PO also drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two functions are critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / productivity in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a PO supports a single Agile (Scrum) Team up to a maximum of 2 teams.PO also has a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Technical Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program/Portfolio/Platform) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).What You will Do:Business and Technical Execution:Develop deep understanding of customer/user experience at a tactical and transactional levelBuild and maintain Agile (Scrum / Sprint) team backlogWrite and refine user stories and requirements including acceptance criteria and testsReview and prioritize team backlog for iteration planningCoordinate and resolve dependencies with other Product Owners, domain POCs, UI/UXReview and assess enabler work and collaborate with System ArchitectsAccept completed user stories, ensuring they meet the Definition of DoneServe as single point of contact for technical and customer/user teams during sprintsMaintain 2 sprints of ready work via ongoing story elaborationParticipate in demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt workshopsManage and groom testable, production-quality user storiesSupport PI planning and PI system demo executionDrive improvement stories to increase velocity and qualityRun PO sync meetings in larger scaled ARTsSupport Technical Product Manager with product vision and roadmapCollaborate with Scrum Master to prioritize the Scrum backlog to maximize throughput of a sprint.Create and review L3 diagrams, Swaggers, API documentation for system integrations.Drive Low Level Design /Domain Level Design for platform featuresReview Test Cases and support testing teams during domain/system and night of releaseConduct Platform Level Demos with StakeholdersParticipate and Drive, Release Activities during Night/Day of ReleaseRelationship & People, Professional Development:Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and customers/usersWork collaboratively across technical and teamsDevelop Platform specific training material/user manuals and educate stakeholdersDevelop Agile training material and educate stakeholdersContribute to Product Owner Community of Practice (COP) and Scrum Master Community of PracticeWhat You will Bring: Bachelor's Degree (required)4+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, System Analyst, or similar roles in Agile software developmentStrong technical writing and requirements elicitation skillsExperience with Agile tools and methodologiesExperience with LucidChart, PlantUML, Visio, Jira, ConfluenceAbility to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical audiencesExperience with writing and elaborating Features and User StoriesStrong analytical skills and data-driven decision-makingScrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) – preferredMust Have Skills:Relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.Nice To Have:Experience with JSON, API Swaggers and L1/L2/L3 diagrams