Duties:                        

• Works closely with stakeholders (business and technology), including executive leadership, to define and prioritize features and stories, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals.
• Understands customers' needs in detail and ensures they are clearly defined, prioritized, and the squad(s) is focused on the most valuable work for the organization.
• Collaborates with Product Owners and Solutions Architects across the organization to develop a deep understanding of the capabilities, technologies, and platforms they support.
• Accountable for creating product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders.
• Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision.
• Communicates the vision as a product strategy to their squad/team and other squads/teams outside their portfolio and functional area as well as executive leadership.
• With the squad, accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs.
• Manages product(s) with high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its content and prioritization.
• Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/ART quarterly planning.
• Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participates in squad demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the Agile working group clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Leads IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Monitors and maintains the product health.
• Designs additional monitoring to support enhanced understanding of product health.
• Proactively monitors impact of their product on others in the ecosystem.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
• Drives alignment with stakeholders to understand the impact that their products' regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints will have on other products in the portfolio.
• Negotiates with squads across the entire ecosystem to align priorities both within and outside the portfolio.
• Builds the product roadmap and strategy based on ongoing input from stakeholders.
• Determines expected value and any changes in value to be delivered in each iteration (sprint, monthly, quarterly, etc.) based on the squad-determined capacity.
• Leads customer-driven design and usability testing for the squads/team and across the portfolio.
• Ensures a well-positioned product through market and industry analysis.
• Use internal data & analytics to measure impact of stories, epics & initiatives, prioritize backlog, set KPI goals, and build business case to support product vision.
• Mentor POs that have less experience, come from different portfolios or Industries.
• PO III often has dotted line oversite of other POs in an Agile Release Train.
• PO III is the primary owner of the strategy for their Product to deliver business outcomes.
• PO III owns alignment of stakeholders and be the ultimate decision maker on features implemented.
• Strong partnership with UX is required in the IAD Sales portfolio. Participate in user research, usability studies, confidence voting.
• PO is the arbiter of misalignments between UX, Stakeholders and Technology. May telecommute up to 60%.