Senior Agile Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a well-organized, prioritized backlog that aligns with business objectives, customer requirements, and product strategies.

• Convert product roadmaps and priorities into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that teams can implement effectively.

• Facilitate backlog refinement sessions to ensure tasks are prepared, clearly defined, testable, and comply with delivery standards.

• Prioritize tasks based on customer value, business impact, risk factors, dependencies, and team capacity.

• Act as the voice of the customer, ensuring that delivery teams comprehend stakeholder and business requirements.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Engineers, QA, and Operations teams to define and implement solutions.

• Validate completed work and ensure that features meet requirements, quality benchmarks, and customer expectations.

• Utilize Jira or similar Agile tools to oversee backlog health, track story progress, identify blockers, and manage dependencies.

• Support Agile ceremonies, including PI Planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, demos, and Inspect & Adapt activities.

• Identify and mitigate risks, blockers, dependencies, and prioritization conflicts, escalating issues when necessary.

• Coordinate release readiness activities, which include communications, documentation, user preparedness, and post-release validation.

• Monitor delivery, quality, customer feedback, and operational metrics to enhance team performance and outcomes.

• Lead, mentor, and develop Product Owners and Agile team members in backlog management, story creation, prioritization, and customer value delivery.

• Advocate for Agile principles, collaboration, continuous improvement, innovation, and a customer-centric approach.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Extensive experience as an Agile Product Owner in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, ART, or other large-scale Agile frameworks.

• Demonstrated experience in translating business and customer needs into features, user stories, and actionable backlog items.

• Proven capability to manage backlogs, acceptance criteria, definitions of ready, and definitions of done.

• Strong knowledge of Agile planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, and release management processes.

• Experience with Jira or comparable Agile project management tools.

• Ability to cultivate strong relationships and influence stakeholders across business and technology teams.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, prioritization, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

• Experience in coaching Product Owners and enhancing Agile delivery practices.

• Proficient in managing competing priorities, navigating ambiguity, and resolving dependencies and risks.

• Strong focus on customer needs with the ability to balance business value, technical feasibility, and delivery obligations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• 401(k)

• Company paid life insurance

• Tuition reimbursement

• Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year

• Paid holidays

• Leaves of absence

• Comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting whole health