Product Owner - 5564469

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

Job Description

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for driving the vision for the product, being the voice of the customer, and following a human-centered design approach. You will shape and manage the product roadmap and product backlog, ensuring the product team consistently delivers on the client's needs and wants. You will validate and test ideas through recurrent feedback loops to ensure knowledge discovery informs timely direction changes. Expected to be an SME, collaborate and manage the team to perform. Responsible for team decisions. Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions. Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.

• Lead cross-functional team meetings to align on product vision and priorities

• Implement Agile methodologies to optimize product development processes

• Conduct market research to identify opportunities for product innovation

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather feedback and iterate on product features

• Develop and maintain relationships with key clients to ensure product success

• Responsible for defining stories and supporting scrum teams in the building of messaging and communication stories.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, customers, and a wide range of stakeholders to identify and define requirements, maintain backlog, and support the development of Program Roadmap, and the features required

• Support Agile Release Train value delivery through the Program Increments (PI).

• Facilitate Scrum and SAFe ceremonies on the team

• Defines sprint plan within the program increment

• Works with Architecture team to develop technical solutions

• Maintain change management expectations to the vision and product roadmap

• Collaborates with other program PMs and supports larger solutions and capabilities.

• Constantly inspects and adapts, analyzing operations and processes looking for LEAN and continuous improvement opportunities

• Applied knowledge of related business processes, products and applications, in addition to functional/ technical knowledge and testing knowledge in order to analyze and anticipate impacts to system changes

Job Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software related field

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working as Product Owner or Business Analyst owner in scaled agile framework (SAFe) or other large scale agile frameworks

• Minimum of 1 year of experience working with Jira

• Minimum of 2 years of experience working in financial services industry

• HS Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York or Washington

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Hourly Range

California $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

Colorado $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

District of Columbia $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

Illinois $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

Maryland $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

Minnesota $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

New York $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

Washington $70.67 - $80.67 per hour

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