Product Owner: II

AVA Consulting is seeking a Product Owner: II

Location: Greenwood Village, CO (Hybrid)

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experience Product Owner to join our client s team. The ideal candidates will work closely with Product Managers and Agile delivery teams to plan, deliver and optimize key products and services for Client. This role requires a strategic thinking balanced with tactical execution; a strong understanding of SAFe methodologies, excellent communication skills and the ability to drive and manage cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Manage planning and delivery of key themes, translating objectives and deliverables into Epics, Features and User Stories. Works with Delivery teams to organize and prioritize work efforts through Planning Increments.
• Drive product objectives with business outcomes and success metrics, design thinking, customer feedback and competitive analysis.
• Crafts epics, features and user stories for the enterprise capability, working directly with the delivery teams to deliver value.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to coordinate and manage resources and activities maximizing impact and overall return on investment.
• Works across team to ascertain, review and address the effectiveness and optimization challenges, and works with Leadership and across the governance structure to mitigate and resolve risks and issues relating to: associate engagement, behaviors, knowledge and skills, organizational priorities and/or dependencies, change and process improvement challenges.
• Interface with key stakeholders to deliver necessary pieces of our product with time-to-market excellence.
• Responsible for understanding the market and farm credit's niche landscape in order to maintain competitiveness. Ensures product compliance with bank policies and regulatory standards. Maintains expertise regarding competition, best practices and benchmarks.
• Analyze customer feedback to identify customer successes and frustrations to improve the product and customer experience.
• Gather and evaluate data to solve complicated problems rationally through critical thinking, logical reasoning, data analysis and research.

Requirements:

• Experience with transformation programs and organizing large efforts into achievable deliverables.
• Proven experience working with technology, data teams, user experience teams, and key stakeholders in creating and delivering value.
• Ability to create, maintain, prioritize, and sequence the product backlog based on business value / ROI.
• Proven ability to think strategically and develop roadmaps for products and services.
• Ability to solve complex problems and develop Epics, Features and User Stories to communicate across all levels of the organization effectively the 'Whys' and 'Whats'.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance, working toward strategic objectives, delivery plans and milestone goals, as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead teams, work collaboratively and build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of associates, management, and internal customers across the bank, as well as external vendors and other stakeholders.
• Knowledge with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and Azure DevOps, ServiceNow

NOTE: Interested Candidates can apply by sending their Updated Resume and Contact Details.

Ron Tolson

AVA Consulting

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