Product Owner

About this role

Symetra has an exciting opportunity to join our team as a
Product Owner
!


About The Role
The Product Owner represents the business vision and customer problems to be solved for enhancements on a system or platform. The Product Owner conveys the vision to the agile team and provides direction on priorities and work to be delivered. The Product Owner is responsible for maintaining a prioritized, healthy backlog, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborating with the engineering delivery team to commit to work items for a sprint. The Product Owner acts as a liaison between business, customer, and technology, clarifying and understanding needs and how to translate those needs into user stories. The Product Owner leverages data and insights in dialog with leaders to ensure that solutions that will bring the most value are prioritized. The Product Owner maintains focus on the end user and/or customer and incorporates information from customer interviews, feedback sessions, and user testing or other customer research methods.


What You Will Do

• Product Execution: Owns and regularly maintains a healthy product backlog.
• Understands and documents business outcomes in user stories, writes and explains user stories to the agile team.
• Prioritizes work items in the backlog based on customer value and business outcomes.
• Articulates the user, needs, business outcome, and acceptance criteria for each user story.
• Owns the 90-day plan and updates it regularly. Collaborates on release plan goals.
• Ensures scope for each release is clear, well communicated, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Approves work items as ready for release.
• Possesses and provides authoritative knowledge on the system being developed and communicates impact of the changes.
• May support up to two low-complexity pods.
• Works with the delivery team and Scrum Master to remove impediments.
• Participates in regular agile events.
• Acts as the voice of the ...