Principal Consultant/Associate Principal Consultant-Product Owner

Principal Consultant/Associate Principal Consultant

Role Description

As a Product Owner, you will be a strategic leader responsible for driving the development, launch, and ongoing support of a company's products. You will focus on long-term vision, market trends, and identifying new opportunities. Working closely with the Chief Product Officer (CPO), you will define specific incremental improvements to be managed across different squads.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Analysis & Opportunity Identification:

  Analyze market trends, monitor competitors, and identify new opportunities within organizational processes.

• Product Vision & Strategy:

  Set an ambitious and clear product vision, communicating it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit.

• End-to-End Product Strategy:

  Own the end-to-end team output strategy, from initial inception through to production.

• Stakeholder Collaboration:

  Collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure the digital vision and products align seamlessly with value streams.

• KPI Accountability:

  Be accountable for product-specific KPIs once a solution enters production and communicate regular tracking updates to stakeholders.

• User Story & Backlog Management:

  Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria for your team. Maintain a well-groomed backlog, ideally 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.

• Business Value & Messaging:

  Work closely with the CPO to establish each product's business value and support messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.

• User-Centric Design:

  Integrate usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer-driven design.

Previous Experience

• Overall Experience:

  11+ years of overall experience.

• Relevant Experience:

  2 to 3 years of experience in roles with similar Product Management/Owner responsibilities.

Skills & Competencies

• Leadership:

• Effectively manages own time and provides clear visibility into ongoing work.
• Recognizes when teammates encounter difficulties and readily offers support.
• Demonstrates initiative by taking action without constant direction.

• Agile Proficiency:

• Applies values of quality, responsiveness to change, and customer centricity in ways of working.
• Works iteratively and incrementally as a standard practice.
• Understands the differences between agile and traditional practices and can select the best fit for context.

• Design Acumen:

• Possesses knowledge of good design practices (e.g., design patterns, known structures, industry solutions) applicable to the role.
• Identifies opportunities or issues to apply best practices.

• Optimization Focus:

• Designs solutions with performance in mind.
• Performs Proof of Concepts (POCs) on potential solutions to assess their impact.
• Identifies performance issues in day-to-day operations and alerts the team.
• Analyzes technologies or methods that can complement, improve, or optimize solutions.
• Offers optimization solutions that positively impact key metrics (e.g., turnaround/processing time, resource consumption).

• Technical Tutoring:

• Has the necessary knowledge to solve many technical impediments encountered by the development team.
• Knows and suggests good practices, novel technologies, and methodologies with the potential to add value to projects.
• Promotes discussions on the best ways to approach a solution.
• Provides ongoing on-the-job coaching to junior team members.

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