Truist Product Owner - Agile 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

502130394

Regular or Temporary:

English (Required)

1st shift (United States of America)Taking a holistic perspective, this position is responsible for delivering the experience across all related pieces within their assigned area of responsibility.

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Lead their delivery team’s priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision defined by product management.
2. Align with product managers to clearly articulate product strategy to the delivery team.
3. Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.
4. Author and maintain the team’s backlog of user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.
5. Perform triage on critical issues and communicate consistently and clearly with all concerned parties.
6. Serve as key resource to development team to answer questions, provide clarifications, and conduct and coordinate business validation, focusing on fitness for use.
7. Update leadership on the epic and feature delivery schedule, including dependencies impacting deliverables, along with recommended solutions.
8. Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity.
9. Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to drive alignment and visibility for which features will be built when, and to ensure overall adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes.
10. Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories in sprint demos; ensuring that the story meets acceptance criteria and otherwise meets its definition of done.
11. Co-ordinate the creation of release-specific business documents, such as support model definitions, go/no-go approvals, internal release notes, and release-related living documents.
12. Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
2. Five or more years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience
3. Three or more years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience
4. Three or more years of leading cross functional teams
5. Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap
6. Demonstrated technical acumen and an ability to work with the technology organization to align product and technology roadmaps
7. Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
8. Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
9. Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, results-driven environment
10. Comfortable with ambiguity, leading work autonomously, and making independent decisions
11. Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues
12. Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation

Preferred Qualifications:
1. Previous experience working as a Product Owner for Agile team(s)
2. Experience working with distributed teams (onshore/offshore)
3. Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (or equivalent)

4. Previous experience working with Rally

Visual / Audio / Speaking

Able to access and interpret client information received from the computer and able to hear and speak with individuals in person and on the phone.

Manual Dexterity / Keyboarding

Able to work standard office equipment, including PC keyboard and mouse, copy/fax machines, and printers.

Able to work all hours scheduled, including overtime as directed by manager/supervisor and required by business need