Senior Technical Product Owner

This technical product owner is a contributing member of the Agile development team that defines, plans and accepts the work that is done by the technical team members. The product owner further coordinates with product management to identify features and user stories while prioritizing into Sprints. At this career level, she or he generally works independently on moderately complex Agile events or as a team member on larger projects. He or she may coach other product owners.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.

• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.

• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.

• Coordinates with product management to prioritize and understand the backlog going into the program increment planning event. Breaks down features provided by the product manager into user stories.

• Serves as a content resource for all user stories and associated acceptance criteria.

• Works as part of a team with managing a particular process from end to end.

• Works as a part of a team for improvement and implements solutions by understanding the value of telemetry and performance metrics.

• Participates in sprint planning process and priority setting. Attends agile development team participating in daily stand-ups, system demos, sprint planning, program increment planning and other meetings as required.

• Refines team backlog, ensuring that there is adequate detail (just in time elaboration) to prioritize and sequence work.

• Accepts stories as done ensuring that the product meets quality standards. Actively contributes to team demos and retrospectives.

• Coordinates with product managers to address cross team dependencies and impacts.

• Coordinates between Agile Team, Release Advisor and Product Manager to carry out Change management activities for new feature/product releases: End user communications, training plans, and deployment schedules.

• May provide expertise to other professionals and support staff in the product ownership discipline.

What do you bring?

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.

• 1-3 years relevant experience working in this or a related field and/or equivalent education, training and/or certification

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

• Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.

• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.

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