Product Owner

**Meet The Team** Hitachi Vantara combines technology, intellectual property, and industry knowledge to deliver data-managing solutions that help enterprises improve their customers' experiences, develop new revenue streams, and lower the costs of business. Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by combining IT, operational technology (OT) and domain expertise. Come join our team and our employee-focused culture and help drive our customers' data to meaningful customer outcomes. **What You Will Be Doing** Hitachi Vantara is looking for a motivated hands-on Technical Product Owner (PO) to drive the direction and life cycle of our intelligent storage solutions for Big Data. A leader on the engineering team, the PO ensures we deliver products to market that meet or exceed expectations. A key influencer on product direction and gatekeeper to engineering, you will engage with both customer and internal stakeholders, architects, and product leaders to define and prioritize requirements. As curator and owner of the engineering team's backlog you will use agile processes to deliver impactful releases that contribute to the combined success of our customers and Hitachi Vantara. - Drive an agile software development process incorporating user experience, software engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on product and technology roadmap and strategy. - Lead and work with stakeholders, Product Management, Architects and Leadership to provide vision, plan road maps and gather requirements for our Sprint Teams. - Condense requirements into a prioritized backlog consisting of epics and stories for Sprint Teams to work on. - Lead Sprint Teams in grooming backlog stories and epics. - Be the "face of the product" for intelligent storage solutions for Big Data. Evangelize our capabilities and our technology to internal teams. - Provide training and guidance to customer success teams. - Own and prioritize the short-term roadmap for MVPs and release. - Lead release and sprint planning, forecasting resource capacity, and estimate development efforts discussions. - Contribute to internal specifications and external product documentation. **What You Bring To The Team** Experience with "hands on" Technical Product Ownership and/or software engineering leadership - Agile process leadership experience - Strong technical background in software engineering. - Experience with Linux based operating systems - Friendly, detail minded, and team-oriented collaborator. **Our Company** Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage as we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed, and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you. **Our Values** We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours, and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs. We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit: Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge