Product Owner

Summary:
As a Product Owner you will be responsible for working with other Product Owners, Business Units and Architects to analyse, understand and document complex requirements for Viavi’s 5G product range. You will contribute to the Viavi TM500 Program Portfolio and be heavily involved in the preparation, planning and execution of Program Increments (SAFe). This is a critical role that contributes to define and improve the products, enable the development teams and validate the team deliverables.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities
- You will work day-to-day with multiple scrum teams:

- Grooming the team backlogs by breaking down program requirements into stories: defining the “WHAT”, “WHY”, acceptance criteria and relative priority
- Contributing to daily updates, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Act as quality control by defining the acceptance criteria and validate the team deliverables
- Accountability for backlog refinement and prep for PI planning, playing a significant role in the planning event itself
- Defining Stories and prioritising the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team
- Accountable for quality, defining acceptance criteria and accepting stories as done
- Work with the teams to ensure priorities are maintained for features and defects throughout the PI
- Review and reprioritise the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners
- During PI preparation the PO is accountable for coordinating dependencies with other POs to ensure what is required from each team is clearly defined
- Provide training information and demo’s if required for new feature delivered by their teams

Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

- Strong engineering background and degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics
- Have experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst or Product Manager
- Experienced in creating, maintaining and prioritising product backlogs using product management tools (Jira)
- Excellent at breaking an epic level items into appropriately sized user stories, with the correct level of detail and acceptance criteria required
- Able to discuss & evaluate technical architecture recommendations from engineering
- Eager to work in an agile set-up continuously improving your agile skills
- Ability to work in dynamic and fast moving/changing development environment
- Previously worked in SAFe or Scrum environments
- Strong collaboration and team working skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships cross-functionally and across all levels
- Able to influence senior stakeholders and business owners
- The ability to influence change and lead by example
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to motivate, coach and inspire at all levels
- Comprehensive communication skills, both verbal and written
- The ability to manage complex and multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment
- Proven proactivity and drive
- Ability to solve significant and unique issues using in depth evaluation of variable factors
- Makes recommendations on strategic decisions

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements: