Product Owner Agile, English

As a member of the Product R&D team, the Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Product Management team and a crucial member of the Agile Team. The PO owns the sprint backlog and is a key point of contact to the Dev team for epic and user story details. The PO is responsible for defining and refining epics and user stories, representing VOC, helping prioritize the Agile Team backlog, and helping the team deliver. This role is critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity/productivity in iteration (sprint) execution.

The PO also has a significant role in quality control and is empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has responsibility for building strong relationships with key business stakeholders, including working with the principal Product Manager, who is responsible for the Product Backlog and Roadmap.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Develops a deep understanding of CX, especially at a tactical and transactional level. This requires travelling to Client sites to design, observe, and gather VOC.
• Collaborates with the agile team and key stakeholders to write user stories and document requirements including defining terminology and diagraming processes.
• Builds and maintains Agile team backlog and Reviews and prioritizes agile team backlog for sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.
• Works with principal product manager to break epics into user stories and to plan releases.
• Maintains high availability to the dev team to answer real-time questions and provide clarity.
• Collaborates with system and solution architect/engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technical infrastructure that will host new business functionality.
• Participates in team demo with responsibility for reviewing and accepting user stories including validation that stories meet acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Actively participates in agile ceremonies and supports agile processes, working to continuously improve user stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.
• Maintains collaborative working relationships with Clients, business stakeholders, and the R&D team.
• Develops and maintains professional, technical, and domain knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing industry publications; and active participation in relevant professional networks, societies, and training.

Must have:

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, industrial engineering or related field
• 3+ years of relevant experience as Product Manager, Product Owner, Business/System Analyst, Solutions/System Engineer, or SW Project Manager
• 2+ years in agile software product development environment including using Jira, Aha! or similar
• 2+ years of combined experience in retail, distribution and supply chain domain including working with enterprise management systems like ERP, WMS, MES, WES, and TMS
• Strong ability to document requirements including the ability to write concisely and clearly for various audiences and to visually illustrate processes, problems, and ambiguous concepts
• Proven ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with Leadership, technical and non-technical audiences while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence
• Familiarity with UX/UI process including design, wireframes, and testing
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally in the range of 20% of the time
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job

Nice to have:

• Experience in Client software solutions design
• Experience in business case development
• Experience or certification in scrum master or release train engineer role
• SDLC experience with enterprise systems, especially with WMS, WCS, or WES

Being an Associate of Fortna, you are offered:

• Flexible working hours(5 working days/week) and no overtime
• Competitive salary with annual review and performance bonus
• 100% official salary during the probation period; 13th-month salary
• Onsite opportunities in the US, UK (1-3 months/year)
• Biannual luxury vacations and monthly Happy Hour
• Exciting company outings/events and team building activities
• Outstanding Wellness and English training allowances
• Bao Viet Premium health-care insurance
• Sponsored training and self-development opportunities (English, PMP, CSM,...)
• 10% paid working time per week for personal development (attending soft skill courses, reading books, working on side projects, self-teaching any new IT-related concepts)
• Modern facilities with Laptop Dell Precision 7550 chip I7-10xxxH, Ram 32GB, SDD 1TB and at least 2 high-quality monitors
• Free access to over 9,000 courses on LinkedIn
• Supportive, international, dynamic working environment and talented, culturally diverse teams
• A large pantry full of snack, drink, and seasonal fresh fruit

Take the deal and let's explore many more benefits!