Agile Product Owner, The Walt Disney Company

Job content

The Walt Disney Company

Position Type

Full time

Type Of Hire

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Travel Percentage

1 - 5%

Are you an experienced Agile Product Owner looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment?

If you are a highly-motivated individual with a genuine interest in Payments and technology, a passion to deliver cutting-edge products, we have the perfect job for you!

We are seeking a strong software Product Owner to work with Global Payment Product team in order to deliver the best solutions to our innovative and industry-leading payment products.

About The Team

You will a Senior Product Owner working within the Global Payments Solutions team, which is focused on building and maintaining best-in-class products, capabilities and services to support our global Enterprise customers’ needs.

Our vision is to create services that are vital for the world’s largest and fastest-growing merchants to achieve predictable, profitable revenue streams. You will be central to this vision.

As Senior Product Owner, Global Payment Products (GPP), you will be an internal and external champion driving the creation and market penetration of APM products (focused on BNPL) that provide top and bottom-line benefits to many of the largest eCommerce merchants in the world. You will be working within the GPP Product Management team, which is focused on building and maintaining best-in-class products, capabilities and services to support our global eCommerce business customers’ needs

Duties And Responsibilities

What you will be doing

• Provide the internal voice of the customer for the team and work with Product Managers, Customers (as well as other Product Owners) and Architects to constantly understand and communicate their needs and participate in the validation of the delivered Features and Enablers (Architectural Runway to provide future business functionalities)
• Understands, appreciate, own and drive technical vision by working very closely with System Architects and effectively handles wider technical stakeholders
• PO is heavily involved with Product Management and Architect in Feature and Enabler backlog refinement at program level and prep for PI planning
• By partnering with System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the PO has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
• Reviews and reprioritizes the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners.
• Collaborate with their team to elaborate details of user stories with acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
• Validation that user stories meet acceptance criteria and have the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests. The PO also assures a level of quality, focusing primarily on fitness for use.
• Collaborate with System Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical non-functional requirements (NFRs) as well as technical debt user stories.
• Serve an essential role in the team demo, reviewing and accepting stories. Additionally, POs participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes and are active in the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.
• Coordinates dependencies with other Product Owners through participation in the weekly PO Sync meeting
• Coach other Product Owners and champion best practices in team
  

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in FinTech; Payment experience is plus
• Technical background and ability to effectively communicate with Technology stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize work to meet deadlines
• Exceptional communication skills including the ability to deliver precise, detailed requirements
• Laser focus on delivery of customer value
• Intellectual curiosity and genuine interest in the ever-changing dynamics of markets and a complex, global industry
• A strong team player, comfortable collaborating with and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional colleagues
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to win, ability to take ownership and desire to drive for optimal business results
• A self-starter with a can-do attitude who can operate with minimal direct/daily supervision
• Ability to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitude
• Show thought-leadership in day to day Product Development and Delivery
  

Added Bonus If You Have

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification is a plus
• SPO/PM (SAFE Product Owner/Product Manager) preferred
• Think beyond day-to-day activities; apply systems thinking
• Experience collaborating with virtual and global distributed teams
• Knowledge of Jira and/or Rally (tools for planning, tracking, and release of software features and enhancements
  

What We Offer You

• A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team
• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities
• A fantastic range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing
• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
  

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