Principal Product Owner

Common accountabilities: - Proficient in technical knowledge to ensure team performs at a high level. Is recognized as a leader in own area and may formally train Specialists/Senior Specialists. - Understands how main business drivers may impact on own area. Can assess complex problems with broad impact on the activity, improve processes, recommend solutions and risk mitigation plans. Able to communicate complex information. - Works with a high level of autonomy, based on management directions. Leads projects or contributes to broad cross-functional projects. May contribute to planning of resources and budget. Specific accountabilities: Understand, identify and define customer needs * Transform the high-level vision of the Product Manager into detailed requirements, working closely with a range of stakeholders for the product, including non-customer stakeholders such as finance, security, operations, support, audit, and others. * Consolidate and articulate business needs into new product concepts or upgrades, and interact with Epic owners and Product Managers to develop features affecting the team backlog. * As cross functional managers, POs need to be able to see how and where systems and processes that affect product success can be improved. Are Marketing/Sales working efficiently WRT the product plans/goals; are Services/Support in synch etc. The flow from concept to development to market should be as frictionless as possible. Product Owner plays a key role in making this happen. Contribute to the product vision and roadmap * Define and continuously develop the product vision & the business value in line with the business owners, product managers, SAFe ART Product Management, other Product Owners & agile teams * Communicate and evangelize customers & teams on product vision and roadmap, share product knowledge and ensure mutual understanding of the business Support the product features definition (scoping) * With the support of the Agile team, lead the definition and prioritization of the Features, based on customer needs and value, to deliver based on market and business needs * Consider and prioritize amongst all Features the enabler work and sequence the architectural runway in collaboration with Architects/Engineering * Collaborate with the System Architect and R&D to ensure the good priorization of Enablers * Collaborate with other teams across the group to ensure coherent prioritization, product alignment, marketing and user experience across various ARTs/Products/Groups. This includes (but is not limited to) Business Owners, SAFe ART Product Management, other POs, PMKs, UX, other groups, SAFe RTEs and Architects Manage, prioritize and communicate the flow of work * Ensure the features and user stories backlogs are reprioritized before each release and sprint planning session * Constantly align and communicate with respective agile counterparts and leadership team * Do sufficient analysis to ensure requirements are ready to be worked on * Document, analyze, trace, prioritize and agree on requirements and then control change and communicate to relevant stakeholders * Work closely with delivery teams to ensure they build the right functionality in a timely manner * Is involved with ongoing testing efforts Participate to Agile events * Accept stories prior Sprint review * Attend and participate actively to the ceremonies at ART level (PI planning, PO Sync, ART Sync, System Demo...) * Actively participate to team coordination meetings, PO synchronization meetings, draft plan reviews and management meeting * Actively participate to System demos and Inspect & Adapt workshops if in SAFe * Actively contribute to the Community of Practice of Product Owners and participate to working group(s) if relevant. * Organize demos Contribute to product promotion * Provide key information & communicate value on the product, to define the Value proposition * Define a succession of strategies as a product goes through its product life cycle * Create standard and tailor-made presentations, and demo scripts showing product value. * Contribute to the pilot plan with Product Marketing and other associated teams & BUs * Share content for product documentation, sales tools and collateral. * Give presentations, demos and familiarization sessions to customers and customer-facing teams (for them to perform them). Once the product has been piloted, standard presentations should be performed by customer-facing teams * Participate to the preparation of key events, guaranteeing the success of product launch and follow up. * Contribute to RFP/RFI for the product