Director of Product - Digital Mobile Apps

Our Digital team is transforming how we deliver solutions and interact with our members across our Mobile, Commerce and Order Management platforms.

We have a culture of improvement & learning with a start-up mentality and a customer-centric approach. We are looking for talented individuals to join our team and pursue bold ideas and explore growth opportunities.

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The Director of Product - Digital Mobile Apps will partner with the product management and stakeholders to translate Mobile App product strategy and problem-solving into a detailed, prioritized backlog of user stories.

This Product Owner, specialized in the Mobile App domain, will collaborate with an Agile delivery team to implement, measure, and learn from the improvements they have made.

The Product Manager manages execution of the value stream product features and delivery roadmap for Digital projects that are aligned to OKRs that measure the objectives of both business and IT.

Product Owners are responsible for defining requirements, assisting with the overall product roadmap / vision, and driving value at the scrum team level.

Product Owners work closely with teams and are the "voice of the customer", ensuring the needs of the end-user are incorporated into the product from design to deployment.

Product owners are responsible for the authoring of functional user stories which are used to support the day-to-day development of new features and capabilities.

This role reports into the VP of Digital Operations.

ROLE

• Defines and communicates the minimum viable product (MVP) for a given application / product and the supporting release plans.
• Collaborates with Product Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Systems Architects) to define new and / or enhanced product requirements and functionality.
• Collaborates with Product Managers to support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap.
• Works continuously daily with teams to provide answers, feedback, and direction on work items, enablers, user stories.
• Consults Product Managers for guidance and clarity on the product vision, roadmap, requirements.
• Collaborates with Scrum Masters to ensure the work managed by teams achieves the highest value relative to the needs priority of the business.
• Collaborates with Scrum Masters and teams to define the sprint plan based on the priority outlined within the overall product vision and roadmap.
• Prioritizes the sprint backlog (as part of the sprint planning ceremony) based on the sequencing and ranking of features defined in the product roadmap.
• Refines product requirements based on the input obtained through sprint showcases and demos.
• Creates and authors user stories with detailed acceptance criteria written in the customers' voice.
• Collaborates with the team to prepare the estimates for the user stories within the product backlog.
• Conducts the formal review and acceptance of user stories implemented by a team within a sprint.
• Drives the execution of user acceptance testing (UAT) activities with support from business and technology team members.

Required

• 8 years' experience as a Mobile App Product Owner in any industry (retail preferred).
• Certified Product owner.
• Excellent understanding of Mobile app ecosystems, business strategies, industry benchmarking.
• Experience working in mobile app development, understanding of the Mobile application Ecosystems.
• Experience with creating documentation for communication with varied audiences.
• Experience working within a complex software development environment.
• Experience working on complex development projects.
• Understanding of business requirements elicitation pursuant to specific programs / projects involved.
• Expertise in utilizing standard documentation tools / utilities.
• Communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

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