Associate Principal Consultant-Product Owner

Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner

As an Associate Principal Consultant - Product Owner, you will:

• Business Needs & Specification:

  Apply a consulting mindset to conduct thorough research, understand complex business needs, and refine them into clear software specifications via features and user stories.

• Issue Resolution:

  Build an in-depth understanding of issues that arise throughout the product development lifecycle, analyzing them from various angles to find effective solutions.

• Backlog Ownership:

  Own and perform continuous backlog grooming, acting as the key liaison between Business and Engineering teams.

• Solution Facilitation:

  Facilitate solution optioning discussions with Engineering teams to ensure optimal technical approaches.

• Feature Definition:

  Write and document features clearly, aligning them with overarching business goals and metrics.

• Acceptance Criteria & Prioritization:

  Define clear Acceptance Criteria and expertly drive business priority for development efforts.

• Cross-Team Coordination:

  Expertly coordinate between Product Owners of other teams, Engineering teams, and Business stakeholders to drive overall business priority and achieve goals.

• User Story Crafting:

  Write user stories effectively in

  ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) format

  .

• Agile & Development Practices:

  Possess a sound understanding of

  Agile and Scrum practices

  , along with a solid background in

  BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) and ATDD

  .

• Application Architecture:

  Have a very good background and understanding of Distributed and Decoupled Web and API based applications and their architectural approach.

• Team Collaboration:

  Experience working with geographically distributed Engineering/Scrum teams.

• Stakeholder Engagement:

  Able to define and drive a clear stakeholder engagement communications plan. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.

• Project Management:

  Possess project management skills to define, document, and execute small projects or sub-projects independently or with a small team, actively participating in all phases.

• Communication:

  Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Product Strategy:

  Have a sound understanding of

  MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

  and

  MVS (Minimum Viable Service)

  .

Good to Have Skills

• Product Owner experience in the Wholesale Automotive domain.
• CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or SAFe Product Owner certifications.

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