Product Owner

Imizizi

Reference: JHB001474-NS-1

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

  • Extensive Agile Master working experience
  • Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban
  • Excellent facilitation and coaching skills
  • Ability to lead, organize and mentor Feature Teams
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience with Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS

  • German Language skills are a bonus.
  • Excellent usage of MS Office tools (Excel, Word & PowerPoint).
  • Working knowledge of AI tools
  • Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools
  • Experience in data-driven decision making and analytics

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Align internal and external IT/business stakeholders.
  • Create transparency regarding resources, requirements, competencies and implementation status to Products and Domains.
  • Define, request, track and, if necessary, escalate the required resources (incl. skills, capacity).
  • Implement the product vision and roadmap.
  • Steer internal/external consultants and serve as a quality assurance of their deliverables.
  • Adhere to the Agile Working Methodology
  • Daily use of the Agile Tool Chain and content-wise steering of all team meetings, including Stand-ups, Sprint
  • Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings, etc.
  • Determine acceptance criteria/definition of done and evaluate the developed product scope, decision regarding release or rework in the product backlog.
  • Identify improvements to the Product Owner regarding the Product Owner hierarchy, including the Feature
  • Teams as well as all relevant internal functions at BMW and external partners, if necessary.
  • Create transparency regarding resources, requirements, competencies and implementation status to Product and Domains.
  • Soft Skills
  • Ability to interpret Business requirements and move concepts through to proposal and successful
  • implementation.
  • Take consultative approach to challenge customers’ requested solution design, should a better alternative exist.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

Relevant IT / Business qualification

Scrum Master Certification

6+ years relevant experience

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