Agile Product Management Advisor

Job Description

- Proactive and takes an active role in understanding the business case, why a change is being requested and learning the desired future state.
- Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learning
- Leverages knowledge of the product s value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value.
- Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements.
- Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)
- Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering.
- Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest. Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.
- Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders.
- Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.).
- Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals and priorities.
- Leads sprint planning , story refinement , feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
- Actively participates in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team s work creates the iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams).
- Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
- Participates in team standups, and retrospectives, facilitates dialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos.
- Identifies, monitors and communicates technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners.
- Manages allocation of team capacity to ensure appropriate levels are utilized for product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)
- Leverages agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implements strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).
- As a member of the team, drives complex projects from an end to end perspective, understanding the business logic end to end and helping orchestrate requirements with all cross functional dependency teams.
- Ability to be succinct and crisp in representing stories, risks and updates. Ability to provide program updates to Sr leaders at various level as required by project/ program.
- Detail oriented and possesses excellent task management, documentation skills

Qualifications

Required Skills:

- Agile experience required preferably Agile SAFe certified.
- JIRA/Jira Align
- Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills
- Ability to navigate difficult discussions using data as evidence for best next steps and resolution.
- Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, execution team and peers.

Required Experience & Education:

- 10-15 years of Years experience in software development or maintenance
- College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrate ability to perform root cause analysis and suggest rectification options.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills - Should be able to provide technical and functional impact summary of the managed incidents
- Development/ Design experience preferred
- Previous Product Management experience driving complex business products required.
- Certification in Product Management preferred; not mandatory.
- Proven track record of excellent communication and stakeholders

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