✨ AI Summary
The Digital Product Expert will partner with the Product Owner and Agile squad to translate product strategy and business requirements into digital solutions and customer journeys. This role involves defining functional specifications, managing the product backlog, and ensuring sprint commitments are met. The expert will act as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams, driving squad execution and ensuring progress against the product roadmap. Collaboration with various teams including Product, Engineering, QA, UX, Governance, and Compliance is crucial. The role also supports testing, release readiness, and implementation activities.
Requirements
Requires 7+ years of experience in digital product, technical project delivery, business analysis, or software delivery. Must have strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle. Experience with requirements gathering, user stories, backlog management, and Azure DevOps is essential. Strong analytical, leadership, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills are required. Technical experience in development or testing is an advantage.
Description
- The Proxy Product Owner partners with the Product Owner and Agile squad to translate product strategy and business requirements into working digital solutions and customer journeys.
- Define functional specifications, workflows, use cases, interfaces, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Gather and translate business requirements into clear, actionable software requirements.
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog in line with the product roadmap.
- Ensure committed backlog items are completed within each sprint.
- Use technical expertise to actively contribute to sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives, and demos.
- Identify technology opportunities that support business goals.
Acts as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams, the PPO ensures seamless execution of digital initiatives.
Drives squad execution and ensures progress against product roadmap commitments.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, QA, UX, Governance, Compliance, and other stakeholders.
- Support testing, release readiness, and implementation activities.
Qualifications and Skills
- 7+ years of experience in digital product, technical project delivery, business analysis, or software delivery.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with requirements gathering, user stories, backlog management, and Azure DevOps.
- Technical experience in development or testing is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, leadership, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Collaborative, delivery-focused, and proactive, with a strong “can-do” attitude.