The ideal candidate should bring proven expertise in Product Management, including requirements definition and prioritization, stakeholder collaboration, and negotiation within Agile/SAFe frameworks. Prior experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager is essential.
Strong communication skills are critical, along with a demonstrated ability to think analytically and structurally, with keen attention to detail. The candidate should be a creative problem solver, capable of applying innovative approaches to complex challenges.
Qualifications:
Must have:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering, Technology, or similar program
- Total 7-8+ years of experience with SDLC.
- 4 to 5 years of experience as an independent Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Product Manager role.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Experience driving all aspects of the software development lifecycle with development teams - iteration themes, backlog grooming, story mapping, user story creation and decomposition, retrospectives, etc.
- Deep customer empathy, including ability to understand end-to-end scenarios and how to measure success.
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and organization skills
- Strong ability to gather and interpret complex and relevant data.
- Passionate about sharing your experiences and knowledge and growing your peers.
- Builds a strong relationship with key stakeholders to understand their objectives and products/services.
- Proven ability to negotiate priorities with business stakeholders.
- Driven, curious, and continuous learner who strives to understand the business impact of work.
- Visio (or similar tool) expertise required to create systems or other simple logical drawings and mapped workflows.
Nice to have:
- SAFe –PMPO (Product Manager /Product owner) or CSPO (Certified Scrum Product owner) or PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) certification
- Knowledge of US Tax and accounting
- Previous Experience on US Tax Filing Product
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Proactively seeks detailed understanding of vision, and near-term and long-term priorities for the product portfolio they support, including target customer segment(s), focus areas for solution portfolio, success criteria and goals, etc.
- Gathers functional and non-functional requirements from technology product managers, customers and internal stakeholders, including, marketing, sales, implementation, training and support teams
- Translates functional and non-functional requirements into feature and user stories
- Represents the voice of customers and internal stakeholders to user experience and development teams throughout the solution development process
- Documents user acceptance criteria for all functional and non-functional requirements
- Presents and explains the feature and user stories to the development team throughout the development process in all forums associated with Agile process
- Facilitates quarterly development planning process (e.g., agile big room planning)
- Partners with the development team to strike the right balance of scope, schedule and resources to maximize progress towards their portfolio goals
- Plans for the year, to ensure that the development team will have the written technical features and stories on time and prioritize development of those appropriately along with other user stories for the upcoming five quarters
- Partners with program/project manager to develop detailed project plans and closely track performance against those plans; convey progress, any deviations and impacts of those deviations to product line managers in a timely fashion
- Sets iteration themes and assign prioritized user stories from the product backlog to the Scrum teams; participate in team planning meetings, and provides advice, clarification and guidance during the execution of each sprint
- Inspects, and accepts or rejects completed work for the development sprint, and ensures new functionality meets the acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with partner teams across the organization to develop an in-depth understanding of the Audit Products.
- Gather requirements and write concrete features to be implemented by the development team and prioritize them.
- As a data-driven company, you will need to clearly define what we want to achieve, how to measure our progress against those achievements, and collect and report on that data.
- Measure and evaluate how the product is used and if it solves the right problem.
- Build a roadmap that meets desired needs and goals, and clearly articulate the benefits of that roadmap across partner teams and stakeholders to gain feedback and realignment.
- Plan and prioritize roadmap / issue work with the engineering teams.
- Contribute to technical/product documentation, release notes, and other guides for users.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.