Product Owner Job Description
Product owner
provides guidance in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban as determined by each team’s goals, and leads Agile delivery teams to deliver value consistently.
Product Owner Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective product owner job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included product owner job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Creates and maintains a product backlog reflecting value and prioritizing work for a product engineering team
Work with business and product engineering leadership to prioritize enhancements and releases
Distill annual roadmaps into requirements and then prioritized sprints with the help of engineering
Decide what your product engineering teams work on
Communicate and evangelize product strategy to peers in engineering and UX
Work with partners in business, engineering, marketing and analytics to define, build and launch products/platform features
Provide quality assurance (QA) review of non-code developer’s deliverables (i.e., design documents, test plans, test reports, ), and track acceptance using customer provided automation tools
Manages an enhancement request process to identify work of high business value
Conveys the goals and product requirements for enhancements and new development, and with Business Analysts assists with the elaboration of the user stories and requirements
Represents the business to the team
Product Owner Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Owner
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CSPO, PMI, IIBA, ASCP, PO, XP, PMP, CSM, PKI, SSL
Education for Product Owner
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product owner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Technology, Technical, Business/Administration, Science, Information Technology, Education, Marketing
Skills for Product Owner
Desired skills for product owner include:
Microsoft Office products and applicable databases
Multiple technical software delivery methodologies
Agile process and principles
Change Management practices
Procedures
Technology
Engineering
Consulting
Agile working methods Scrum/Kanban
Microsoft Office products
Desired experience for product owner includes:
Work with Strategic Product Managers to translate high level strategy product direction into work breakdown and prioritization for the backlog
Work with Product Designers to develop personas supporting usability and user-centered design
Collaborate with the Business Solutions team during pre-sale activities and convert client launch requirements into backlog items
Experience with agile product development including requirements and work management in epics and stories
Build, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog in order to deliver the most value
Manage ROI and deliver business benefits
Product Owner Examples
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Product Owner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a product owner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product owner
- Develop a solid knowledge of the existing systems and business processes
- Work with Product Managers / Business owners to understand the business drivers and strategy
- Conduct requirements analysis/design, needs assessments and cost benefit analysis
- Work effectively with the team to decompose complex feature sets into a set of priority stories for delivery
- Document requirements / user stories
- Work with UI / UX / Development to develop, validate and refine concepts with end Users
- Ensure requirements are clear, unambiguous, prioritised, demonstrable and testable
- Work with marketing, sales, and service on the development of product positioning, demo design, training courses, sales collateral
- Work with our US Product Management team and NZ based Product Delivery Managers to break down features into a product backlog
- Make prioritisation decisions and guide teams on what work to pull in next
Qualifications for product owner
- Align strategy and roadmap with cross vertical product areas
- Work closely with various team members, across sponsors, stakeholders, and customers
- Vendor contract negotiations and vendor relations management
- Provide appropriate updates, reviews with partners and senior management
- Maintain high-level product roadmaps
- Prioritized features and functionality
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product owner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product owner
- Taking the overall solution strategy and roadmap to provide tactical day to day focus and direction of the development and architectural teams for your respective areas
- Definition and ownership of all functional, non functional and programme requirements ensuring appropriate prioritisation against business objectives
- Definition, ownership, prioritisation and management of the product backlog
- Tracking of internal deliverables and feature set against business requirements and industry trends
- Facilitating customer engagement at the appropriate levels throughout the life of the programme
- Validation and approval of all user cases and user stories
- Validation and acceptance of the customer user experience
- Approval of all acceptance criteria whilst following behavioural driven development techniques
- Responsible for assuring quality and commercial readiness
- Support of the creation of the training, service and support collateral
Qualifications for product owner
- 2+ years of business analysis or product owner experience, preferably within the realm of Enterprise Performance Management
- Working knowledge of budget & forecasting, profitability, and balance sheet risk management principles
- Previous experience with agile development practices
- Proven track record of building effective, collaborative relationships with software developers
- Results-oriented at an individual and team level, ambitious, and strong ability to follow-through on commitments
- Undergraduate degree preferred (Business, Finance or MIS)
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of product owner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product owner
- Defining the vision for a product feature through consultation with customers, and external and internal collaborators
- Representing the customer during the development cycle to ensure the software produced is valuable and useable
- Organising external and internal showcases of the work at relevant points
- Excellent people influencing skills
- Able to build and maintain a network of external relationships with customers and others
- Knowledge of legal operations and/ or the legal software market desirable but not essential
- Ability to “own” delivery
- Good team player and easy to get on with
- Respect for the expertise and experience of others but willing to ask “why?”
- Practical with the ability to apply common sense
Qualifications for product owner
- Good knowledge of agile/scrum methodologies
- Scrum Product Owner certificate is an additional asset
- Ability to work with development team to deliver value to the client
- Programming/technical background is encouraged
- Ability to form acceptance criteria with Gherking is a plus
- Empower the development team instead of managing them
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a product owner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for product owner
- Consolidates requests, designs, and technical research to create well-defined and well documented requirements
- Offers guidance to the team during design, development, and testing phases and holds accountability for the overall solution
- Works with internal project teams to ensure a smooth consumption of the platform
- Understands our clients’ use of the product to deliver detailed communication and presentations on the value of various features
- Own a product or suite of products on behalf of the company
- Be a central point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
- Build relationships with users and customers
- Maintain a focus on product quality throughout development, reviewing stories, features and product increments to ensure that they meet the user needs, are functional and compliant
- Monitor metrics following product releases and use this data, any user feedback and new findings from communication with customers to define the next set of requirements/features for future releases (respond to market demand to deliver value)
- Adapt the platform/platform capabilities vision based on the larger platform or company vision
Qualifications for product owner
- Prior experience leading technical and business teams, with an in-depth understanding of technical systems requirements business initiatives
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate (verbally and in written form) and engage with individuals at all levels of the organization, with internal and external customers
- Develop and maintain product roadmap
- Serve as a SME on product
- Create and maintain the product roadmap
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in software product management or software development and prior project management experience
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of product owner. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for product owner
- You will Own and support product readiness activities such as L2 training, sizing, golden number setting, documentation
- You Will participate in a groundbreaking transformational project that will redefine the future of SDN/NFV telecom networks
- You Will define new products for design, deployment and operation of future network
- You Will experience working with the global team for the global customer base
- Responsible for defining scope of development for new product features and on-going feature enhancements including all management of backlog and project management activities
- Responsible for writing and prioritizing stories
- Proven leader, motivator, and effective decision maker enhanced by creativity and a detailed understanding of digital product management so they can manage the backlog effectively
- Responsible for the vision, objectives and benefits of their initiatives
- Accountable for the delivered functionality and user experience
- Representing the stakeholders on a day-to-day basis to the Team
Qualifications for product owner
- Experience of managing resources and teams of people
- Experience within development or payments business
- Expertise in delivering value from Agile methodologies - essential
- Be able to generate a vision for the domain which will encourage idea generation that motivates the team(s) to bring concepts to life
- Highly adaptable with ambiougous guidelines
- Have a genuine passion for the business area