Agile Product Owner

What you’ll be doing…

Verizon is actively searching for a Product Owner as the key project stakeholder for transformative digital experiences. The ideal candidate will inspire and motivate the engineering teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency. The candidate will represent the “voice of the customer” by maintaining and prioritizing the backlog to ensure that the team is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary functionality. This role will be highly visible across the organization acting as the ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.

• Develop and maintain the product vision and strategy. Effectively communicate that vision to internal and external stakeholders.
• Organize and work with cross-functional teams and remote resources to drive process and deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Own and drive backlog grooming and management, prioritize user stories, create acceptance criteria and drive testing and delivery.
• Write requirements (user stories) for product features working with stakeholders (both internal and external), ensuring that customer, stakeholder and market needs are met.
• Use agile/lean methodologies to drive and deliver enterprise-scale digital projects.
• Understand relevant web design and development technologies in order to interpret and translate requirements into a detailed creative and technical brief.
• Be a product leader that ships on time, with a distinct eye for the intersection of MVP and customer value.

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Three or more years of experience in Project or Account Management, Product Owner or Business Analyst role, or related experience.

Even better if you have:

• Your degree in Business or Engineering. Ideally, your Master’s degree.
• Experience being responsible for budgets, teams, and deadlines within an agile/lean environment.
• Experience in issue tracking and project management platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Basecamp.
• Demonstrated team player with ability to coordinate multiple projects in a fast paced, deadline driven, multi-location / multi-cultural matrix work environment.
• Problem solver with the capability to effectively communicate solutions.
• Self-motivated with a can-do attitude and the ability to influence and motivate others while staying positive.

When you join Verizon…

You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.

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