Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day.R by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations. Dollar General operates more than 18,000 stores in 47 states, and we're still growing. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com.
General Summary:
Product Owner serves Operations Management Solutions as the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer impact. They are considered an expert in their field as well as the applications they support and are often sought out by other teams to assist in product delivery. The Product Owner represents business needs and priorities, prioritizes and manages the product backlog, assigns points to stories based on their knowledge of the system, recommends developers for backlog items based on knowledge of the developers experience, and incorporates feedback from business stakeholders to guide continuous product improvement. They are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes for one or more products of low to high complexity.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Authors Agile stories and performs backlog prioritization
Meets with stakeholders to gain clarity on business needs
Participates in Scrum ceremonies
Collaborates to ensure product vision remains appropriate and applicable to DG's strategic direction
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Servant-Leader for cross functional teams over a portfolio of products
Accepts high-level objectives and works with stakeholders to convert business needs into product requirements
Manages a variety of viewpoints to build stakeholder consensus
Develops Use Cases and authors agile stories while prioritizing the highest impact work for the team and stakeholders
Refine the backlog to enforce Sprint/story durations
Develops and communicates product vision, strategy and related roadmap for the product
Leads sprint review meetings and analyzes feedback to identify and understand product needs
Primary technical contact for the engineering team
Sets expectations with business stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities
Responsible for Release Planning and accountable for overall product delivery and speed to market
Understands how features are performing, the level of customer satisfaction, and provides suggestions for improvements
Ensures flow of work by maintaining at least two future Sprints in the backlog
Work Experience &/Or Education:
4+ years of relevant experience in IT, Retail technology
4+ years of software delivery experience related to {functional area} to include {main application, e.g. WMS}
3+ years in diverse roles and increasing responsibilities across business and IT CSPO roles desirable
3+ years working in or with Agile software delivery teams using tools such as JIRA and Confluence
3+ years experience working with ServiceNow, Communications Platforms, Task Management, Ticketing Solutions, and Robotics Process Automation platforms preferred
Applicable Product Owner certifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner Certification)
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent experience
Authors Agile stories and performs backlog prioritization
Meets with stakeholders to gain clarity on business needs
Participates in Scrum ceremonies
Collaborates to ensure product vision remains appropriate and applicable to DG's strategic direction
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Requisition ID: 2022-260058
Street: 100 MISSION RDG
External Company URL: http://www.dollargeneral.com
