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Product Owner – Consumer Experience (Remote - CST Hours, Contract-to-hire) (freelance)
United States
Contract
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$110K/yr - $140K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences.
Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product.
Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization.
Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings.
Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis.
Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps).
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, and 5+ years of work experience.
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures.
Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization.
Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies.
Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices.
Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing.
Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships.
Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives.
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint.
Benefits
Benefits during both the contracting period and once converted to full time with client
Company
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Funding
Current Stage
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