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MTech Systems · 5 days ago

Junior Product Owner

Dunwoody, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

1+ years exp

MTech Systems is a prominent provider of tools for managing performance in Live Animal Protein Production. They are seeking a driven and detail-oriented Junior Product Owner to join their dynamic product team, where the role involves assisting in backlog management, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-value features that meet business goals and customer needs.

Software

Responsibilities

Backlog Management: Assist in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring clarity and alignment with the product roadmap

Scrum Master: Facilitate Agile Scrum ceremonies. Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Stand-Ups. Create comprehensive iteration reporting including velocity/burn downs

Customer Research: Interview customers on system functionality to solve user problems and inform design decisions

Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, to define and document user stories, acceptance criteria, and business requirements

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with developers, designers, and QA teams during sprints to answer questions, clarify requirements, and ensure delivery aligns with expectations

Customer-Centric Approach: Participate in customer interviews, research sessions, and feedback analysis to understand user needs and improve product functionality

Agile Practices: Support sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring Agile principles are upheld

Data Analysis: Review product performance metrics, identify trends, and make recommendations for iterative improvements

Communication: Effectively communicate progress, risks, and opportunities to product owners and stakeholders

Ensure that all questions posed in bugs/user stories/Feature Requests are addressed either by Junior Product owner or Product Owner within 24 hours

Be able to answer ticket details such as expected delivery time (with developer support), release versioning, database versioning

Move user stories/bugs/features assigned incorrectly to your sprint teams to the correct teams

Coordinate translation of release notes and knowledge base to Spanish and Portuguese

Moving all unclosed tickets from one iteration to the next

Write assigned SOPs

Write assigned knowledge base documents.Review drafts with product owner

Create a new user story when it is determined by development team/product owner that a reported bug should be a user story

Scope tier 1 user stories as assigned by the product owner. Review all scoped items with product owner

Know the priority order as determined and expressed by the director of product

Contribute active comments and feedback on team calls

Qualification

Agile/Scrum methodologiesProduct managementJIRAData analysisCommunicationAnalytical mindsetConfluenceSoftware development understandingTime-managementInterpersonal skills