Panasonic Avionics Corporation · 4 months ago
Product Owner III - Hybrid
Beaverton, OR
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$102K/yr - $171K/yr
5+ years expPanasonic Avionics Corporation is a leader in delivering inflight entertainment products. The Product Owner will manage the team backlog, ensuring alignment with customer needs and collaborating with various stakeholders to maximize product value.
Consumer ElectronicsInformation TechnologyManufacturingTelecommunications
Responsibilities
Responsible for executing the team backlog thorough the entire life cycle management of a product, including purpose, definition, design, planning, development prototyping and testing
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features based on business objectives and customer needs for entire product life cycle
Act as intermediary between the team and the customer. Provides daily insights that guide the developers towards providing the highest value outputs and the team towards meeting iteration goals. Enables the team to delivery continuous value
Creates user stories from high level Epics/Features and maintaining the technical and feature level integrity
Works with cross-functional teams on PI objectives and goals and also sprint specific goals
Tracks and is able to provide regular updates on progress, including KPIs and metrics, to leadership and stakeholders
Applies a customer-centric mindset along with design thinking tools to guide the team toward delivering solutions that are desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable
Owns the team's backlog and its Stories, its prioritization and health (the quality and readiness of stories)
Translates complex technical features into user-centric stories
Owns their teams mechanisms including backlog refinement, system demos, and other team events
Participates/conducts pre-PI Planning necessary, specifically User Story refinement
Ensures Stories have concrete acceptance criteria, maturing toward an acceptance test driven development and shared understanding of "complete/ready"
Collaborates with team on ensuring User stories to Meet Definition of Ready and defines acceptance criteria for User stories
Communicates with stakeholders, understands and prioritizes requirements from competing stakeholders. Enabling the continuous feedback loops from stakeholders and customers that fuel the value to the customer
Understands the Definition of Ready and is communicates the changes required to the Product Manager in a clear and informative manner
Support and empower Agile teams by providing clear goals, guidance, and a shared understanding of priorities aligned with the team's backlog
Contribute to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or 9 years of experience in an engineering product development delivery role in lieu of a degree
5+ years of moderate to complex project management or product development delivery experience with development of complex systems in aerospace sector and /or experience in driving a product roadmap, leveraging data and analytics to ensure sophisticated customer engagement
Agile Certifications (ie, CSM, CSPO, APM, SSM)
Prior experience in breaking down larger complex solutions into achievable goals and tasks and written into User Stories
Excellent verbal/written communication; comfortable presenting ideas and decisions to a larger audience
Prior experience with Atlassian products including JIRA and Confluence
Prior experience in agile methodologies. Understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Experience in prioritizing tasks, manage time efficiently, and adapt to changing priorities
Ability to navigate and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Prior experience in Avionics with knowledge of IFE customers, competition
Preferred
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software or other Technical degree (STEM)
In-flight entertainment
Benefits
Paid time off: Exempt Salaried employees receive flexible paid time off. This means that there is no fixed number, range, or limit to the amount of Personal and Vacation Days that may be taken for exempt employees. Non-exempt hourly employees accrue 14 vacation days per year + 7 sick days + 3 personal days. Accrual rate increases with tenure. All employees receive 11 company paid holidays per year. We also close our offices at the corporate level in the U.S. between Christmas and New Year. For operational positions that are expected to work on holidays, we provide additional compensation for hours worked.
Health Insurance: Medical insurance offerings from Aetna and Kaiser (CA &HI). Options for Employee Only, Employee + Spouse/Domestic Partner, Employee + Children, or Family. Dental PPO and DMO options & Vision insurance through EyeMed or VSP.
401K with 50% match on up to 8% contribution, full vested from day 1.
Washington residents only are eligible for: Washington’s Family and Medical Leave program and Washington’s Paid Sick Leave program.
Other offerings include: Wellness Program, Counseling services, FSA & HSA, Life Insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, Long-term and Short-term disability, Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance, Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Dependent Care FLSA, Education Assistance, Commuter Program, Employee Purchase Program, Service Award Program.
Company
Panasonic Avionics Corporation
For 40 years, Panasonic Avionics has strengthened the connection between the world’s airlines and their passengers.
5001-10000 employees
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