As a Systems Engineering - Agile Product Owner, you will be responsible for maximizing the value of the products created by a scrum development team, understanding engineering details while seeing the high level solution, maintaining schedule and meeting commitments. The Product Owner (PO), needs to have a solid understanding of users and of future trends for the domain or type of system being developed in order to make sound decisions.

Responsibilities include:

Translating the customer/end user needs into a vision of what needs to be developed, and conveys the vision to the scrum team
Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
Ensuring the team has an adequate amount of prepared tasks prior to work start
Planning and prioritizing product feature backlog and development
Defining product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
Assessing value, developing cases, and prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value and are aligned with product strategy
Providing backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Leading product release planning and setting expectation for delivery of new functionalities
Actively mitigate impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Engaging with team, participating in design decisions, daily scrums, release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, demonstrations
Working with leadership and across teams to limit design/workload volatility for developers
Interfacing between the Customer, end users, program management, engineering leadership and system architects, developers and the integration and test teams
Ensuring clear communication between stakeholders and teams, gaining buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and providing clear strategy, instructions and deliverables to the developers

Required Experience, Knowledge and/or Skills:

Bachelor degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, or biomedical) and 8 years of engineering management experience
In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
Experience in an Agile or DevOps development environment
Understanding of the product lifecycle and change management process
Experience in functional decomposition, use case development, interface analysis and definition
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to meet timelines
Knowledge of component level integration and test
Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with all levels of management and individual contributors on the program team

Desired Experience, Knowledge and/or Skills:

Electromechanical medical device development
Experience using DOORS
Domain experience preferred

RSR OPS NOTE - MANAGER WANTS SHORTLISTING BUT PLEASE DO NOT REJECT CANDIDATES

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