Senior Agile Product Owner, Individual Dental

Stellenbeschreibung:

Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog aligned to product goals, roadmap priorities, and customer outcomes
Translate product opportunities into features, user stories, defects, enablers, and acceptance criteria
Ensure work is appropriately sized, refined, and ready for delivery
Define acceptance criteria reflecting customer needs, business rules, compliance requirements, and operational considerations
Maintain traceability between customer problems, product objectives, and delivery work
Collaborate with Product Managers, engineers, architects, designers, and stakeholders to clarify requirements and solution intent
Facilitate story refinement, backlog grooming, and planning activities
Support decomposition of product initiatives into valuable, incremental releases
Make day-to-day delivery decisions within established product objectives and guardrails
Maintain understanding of users, operational workflows, business processes, and customer journeys
Participate in customer interviews, journey reviews, user testing, and discovery activities
Translate customer insights into actionable product requirements and backlog improvements
Participate in sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, demonstrations, and team ceremonies
Monitor delivery progress, remove ambiguity, and coordinate dependencies across teams and stakeholders
Promote continuous improvement of team processes, quality, and ways of working
Leverage AI to improve backlog refinement, story creation, acceptance criteria, analysis, documentation, and communication
Apply AI responsibly with human judgment, validation, accountability, and governance
Partner with Product Managers and collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX, operations, compliance, security, legal, and business partners
Surface risks, assumptions, dependencies, and implementation concerns early
Build alignment through transparency, customer context, data, and shared understanding

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
Three or more years of experience in Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Product Management, Agile Delivery, Digital Product Development, or a related discipline
Experience working with Agile product teams in a cross-functional environment
Ability to translate customer needs, business objectives, and product requirements into clear, actionable, and testable work items
Experience creating and refining user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, business rules, defects, and backlog items
Experience collaborating with engineering, architecture, operations, business, and product stakeholders
Ability to prioritize work and make trade-off recommendations within established product objectives and guardrails
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
Experience using Agile delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Mural, or similar platforms
Ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments while maintaining delivery focus
Ability to influence decisions and build alignment without formal authority
Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, product delivery practices, and modern software development lifecycle concepts
Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve analysis, documentation, communication, backlog refinement, or team effectiveness
For home working, cable broadband or fiber optic internet service with at least 10 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Agile Product Ownership and Business Analysis, with a strong ability to translate customer needs into actionable product requirements and backlog items. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of product initiatives.