Associate Product Owner

The Associate Product Owner will work across a portfolio of digital products and capabilities supporting Country Management Units, Regions, Global Practices, and operational teams. The role involves managing product roadmaps, prioritizing backlogs, coordinating delivery with cross-functional teams, and ensuring solutions provide measurable business value.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans across assigned ITSCE products and capabilities and contribute to cross-unit initiatives and priorities across ITSOE.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand priorities, confirm requirements, identify opportunities, and ensure products deliver measurable business value.
• Manage and prioritize product backlogs across multiple initiatives, balancing business demand, strategic priorities, delivery capacity, dependencies, and risks.
• Maintain visibility across products, business processes, data assets, and technology capabilities to identify overlaps, dependencies, integration opportunities, and areas for simplification within ITSCE and across related ITSOE products and capabilities.
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and success measures in collaboration with business and technical teams.
• Coordinate delivery across engineering, architecture, data, security, and user experience teams on department level to ensure timely and high-quality execution.
• Drive roadmap planning and release prioritization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and portfolio priorities in alignment with other teams.
• Support unit-level planning and governance by providing recommendations on priorities, trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and investment decisions.
• Work with peers from across ITSOE units to identify and advance opportunities for integration, reuse, and alignment across products, platforms, data, and workflows.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement, communications, demonstrations, and feedback sessions throughout the product lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through process simplification, automation, shared capabilities, and better use of technology.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in business, STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), computer science, or a related field, with a minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant product ownership experience.
• Demonstrated product ownership experience in ITSOE, including working across products, business areas, and technology teams to deliver integrated solutions and business value.
• Commits to delivering products that maximize business value through the management of product design, innovation, and lifecycle in accordance with Agile processes.
• Ability to collaborate closely with business stakeholders to identify and shape demand, strategize opportunities, and drive the development and delivery of IT products across multiple business and product areas.
• Recommended Certifications in SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager and/or SAFe® DevOps Practitioner.
• Demonstrated ability to perform advanced-level research and analyses in the field of specialization and oversee complex products, platforms, initiatives, or processes, with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple stakeholders, priorities, and workstreams, balancing competing demands and managing dependencies across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to provide knowledge-based guidance, coaching, and training to more junior staff within the job area, serving as a technical resource for other professionals.
• Ability to identify opportunities for alignment, simplification, integration, and reuse across products, processes, data, and technology capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, proficiency in creating concise reports, and presentations.
• Strong presentation and collaboration skills with a proven record of leading meetings and influencing stakeholders in multicultural environments.
• Passion for innovation and staying up to date with the latest technological trends.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities.
• Able to take personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results and has the personal organization to do so.

Skills

• Product Ownership
• Agile Processes
• SAFe Product Owner Product Manager
• SAFe DevOps
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Business Value Maximization
• Product Roadmaps
• Backlog Prioritization
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Advanced Research and Analysis
• Technical Coaching
• Process Integration
• Product Innovation
• Report Writing
• Presentation Skills
• Multicultural Stakeholder Engagement
• Technology Trend Awareness
• Adaptability
• Time Management

Languages

English