Senior Product Owner

Responsibilities

The Senior Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products while leading the product team. They are responsible for grooming the product backlog, managing roadmaps, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement new features.

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of related experience, or a high school diploma with 8 years of experience. Strong understanding of the SDLC process and experience in an agile environment are required.

Skills

• Product roadmap management
• Product backlog grooming
• Stakeholder management
• Sprint planning
• Functional specifications
• User stories
• Market research
• Agile methodology
• SDLC
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic planning
• Data analysis
• KPI management
• Communication
• Leadership
• Software development lifecycle

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Growth and development opportunities
• Recognition for work

About this role

Important Application Submission Information
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Job Summary

The Senior Product Owner defines, delivers, and manages the lifecycle of products in a product portfolio. Leads the product team(s) developing the product(s). This position may be involved in the funding management and budgeting processes for the products and / or portfolio.

Responsibilities

Defines and manages product roadmap
Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog, continuously managing expectations with relevant stakeholders – including the senior leadership team
Manage the sprint planning process and participate in all relevant ceremonies (reviews of prior sprints, grooming, retrospectives, etc.)
Develop a deep contextual understanding of our customer, worker and user needs
Gather market feedback through user interactions, focus groups, and by performing industry research to support future development
Write detailed functional specifications, user stories and product documentation
Collaborate with cross-functional teams of developers, designers and analysts to implement and deliver new products and features
Collaborate with the organization on vision, strategy, decisioning, tactical execution, and measurement systems
Communicate roadmap stages and timelines internally with key stakeholders

Basic/Required Qualifications

Bachelors degree
Minimum 4 years related work experience
In lieu of Bachelors degree(s) AND 4 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 8 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications

Previous Duke Energy Experience
7 or more years working in the utility industry
Experience as a Senior Product Analyst
Agile Product Owner certification
"Black Belt" Six Sigma certification
Experience with Jira

Working Conditions

Virtual Mobility Classification – Work will be performed from a remote location after the onboarding period. However, virtual employees should live within a reasonable commute to a Duke Energy facility and must live within a footprint state of Duke Energy (NC, SC, FL, OH, KY, IN) or the DC metro area.
Office environment mostly, often with research, analysis or engagement conducted in plants or field

Specific Requirements

Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping software
Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team
Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate
Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities
Excellent communication skills including the ability to build relationships and effectively influence across all management and organizational levels
Strong understanding of the SDLC process and the ability to work in an agile environment with bi-weekly releases
Experience with relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment
Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you have the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals

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Travel Requirements
5-15%
Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)
No
Represented/Union Position
No
Visa Sponsored Position
No. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.
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