Senior Product Owner

Posted:
6/2/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines ⋅ Metro Manila, Philippines

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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What We'll Bring:

What We’ll Bring:

The Senior Product Owner for PH Solutions team at TransUnion will work directly with various product management teams and/or platform owners to ensure that the business requirements for the Philippine market are translated into product features or work items that can be consumed by the product development team/s. He/she is accountable in delivering the product features per committed timeline to support business targets and drives the prioritization discussion with Center of Excellence (COE) teams. The role is required to consolidate/document product requirements in a form of user stories, process flows and/or customer journeys, build a high-level design of the requirements and work with the engineering team for the technical design. Other responsibilities include supporting the scrum team, manage the product backlog and optimize the value of the product/s.

What You'll Bring:

What You’ll Bring:

The Senior Product Owner should be a certified SAFe Agile Product Owner and DevOps practitioner and will be working as part of multiple Agile teams. The successful candidate must have at least  seven (7) years of intensive experience working with Agile/Scrum work environment as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Technical BA or similar role with proven ability to deliver and quick to learn. He/she will be involved in daily discussion around the features progress, understand impediments of the engineering team and provide clarifications so that the product delivery commitments are met as per the market expectations.

  • Functioning as a core team member within our Agile teams, a Product Owner ensures that features and stories are well-defined for the engineering team or scrum team to work on and following the development process through user story acceptance.

  • Extensive experience in B2B software, including experience in creating, implementing, and managing software platforms, enterprise applications and/or SaaS platforms

  • Experience working on micro-services and API based products

  • Excellent understanding of Scrum principles and practices

  • Hands-on experience in using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Office and flowcharts (e.g Visio, Lucidchart)

  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

  • Solid communication skills across all levels of the organization and with international teams

  • Experience launching and/or selling products in international markets is highly desirable; a genuine interest and excitement in working with different cultures is a must

  • Ability to thrive in a highly dynamic and intense environment – sees change as something that creates new opportunities

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a strong technical environment

  • Having a background on credit bureau platforms is desirable

Impact You'll Make:

Impact You’ll Make:

As a part of the solutions organization, the Senior Product Owner will engage with Product Manager, COE (Center of Excellence) based Product Management teams situated outside of Philippines, customers or users from various departments to collect the product requirements and opportunities than can be best enabled by either localizing a global solution or developing new solution. Based on the requirements provided by the customers, internal users and the outcome of the market research analysis, the Senior Product Owner will then work closely with other product owners and product managers, UI/UX teams, Business, Marketing, Legal, Engineering, Operations and/or Data science teams to create a prioritized feature backlog comprising of high-level technical design, specifications, UI/UX mockups and other relevant documentation.

You work well with virtual teams and have a flexible work structure that allows for early morning/late night calls with associates in other countries.

  • Develop product features and cascade to the agile/engineering team

  • Represent capabilities and features at team level in supporting Scrum (SAFe) Framework

  • Writes user stories in JIRA

  • Manage traceability from product/business requirements to features to user stories to test cases to ensure that the right product is delivered to the customer or end-user

  • Collaborate with solution architect, product manager, and engineering lead to translate product requirements into features for the development teams to implement.

  • Review of test cases against acceptance criteria

  • Prioritize the Product Backlog aligned with business priority as communicated by the Product Manager

  • Formally accept the user stories once all acceptance criteria are met and demo-ed

  • Work with external partners/vendors to liaise with the scrum team for the ongoing implementation of the product with the goal of ensuring timely resolution of issues and execution of build, and when necessary, timely escalation to Product Manager

  • Be a leader during Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and project team’s release planning sessions

  • Use your excellent communication skills to understand technical requests and accurately translate into product features that include benefit hypotheses, outcome hypotheses, and acceptance criteria

  • Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency

  • Work with QA and analyze data and test results to ensure integrity is maintained throughout program lifecycle and ensure market and business needs are satisfied

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Consultant, Product Management