Product Owner

Job description

Job Overview:

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.

 

What you do:

The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog. Product Backlog management includes:

·  Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;
·  Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;
·  Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;
·  Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and,
·  Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

 The Product Owner may do the above work or have the Development Team do it. However, the Product Owner remains accountable.

The Product Owner may represent the desires of a committee in the Product Backlog, but those wanting to change a Product Backlog item’s priority must address the Product Owner.

The Product Owner decides what will be built and in which order. He or she will:

·  Manage Product Backlog and Release Planning
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·  Define the features of the product or desired outcomes of the project.
·  Adjust features/outcomes and priority as needed to ensure ROI.
·  Fully elaborates Acceptance Criteria for User Stories.
·  Prioritize User stories according to business value.
·  Perform Release planning and ensures that the release backlog is aligned with the Vision and Roadmap.
·  Reviews backlog in depth with the Scrum Master in preparation for future Release Planning activities.
·  Write new User Stories needed in order to have a complete and comprehensive backlog.
·  Work closely with the Scrum Team
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·  Collaborates with the team to ensure User Stories are accurately elaborated and understood.
·  Ensures that everyone in the Scrum Team understands what is required.
·  Be available to answer any question arise during Sprint execution and support them.
·  Sprint Planning and Execution
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·  Attends Sprint Planning in order to answer any remaining questions.
·  Attends Daily Stand-ups to remain engaged and up-to-date on the team’s progress.
·  Completes incremental reviews of stories as they are completed.
·  Adjust priorities of stories mid-sprint based on impediments or dependencies.
·  Attend the Demo to provide feedback and acceptance of stories.
·  Accept work results.
·  Stakeholder Management
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·  Collaborates with Stakeholders outside of the team to review progress.
·  Collect and discuss required functionalities with the different Stakeholders. These requirements are then combined and filtered before giving it to the team in the form of prioritized Scrum Product Backlog Items.

What you bring:

·  Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree.
·  3+ years of relevant experience in a similar project management/Product Ownership role.
·  Physically fit to carry out duties.
·  Previous working experience as a Product Owner for 3 years +
·  Previous experience in TPA / Insurnce industry in MEA /GCC region.
·  Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
·  Broad and deep knowledge of software development agile framework

 

 

What we offer:

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

67771 | Product Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
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