Product Owner - Senior
Orange
- Cairo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage backlog for ORA INTL, collect & analyze business requirements from business owners.
- Translate business requirements to understandable user stories as input to development process.
- Prioritize backlog to balance between business ambition and development capacity
- The Product Owner owns the product knowledge (The current features, the latest product updates, and the product evolution plan. He/she shall participate in setting the product strategy and controls the product backlog.
- Product owner is the gateway between the business stakeholders (project managers, technology consultants, pre-sales consultants, product managers, etc.) and the scrum team
- Business & Technical evaluation of product development and changes requirements
- Understanding and anticipating the business needs to more effectively manage the development process
- Trigger technical requirements as enablers to business needs
- Lead technical & business scope definition of Interfaces between different platforms
- Accountable for design simplification and scalability
- Collect new product development requirements, qualify and prioritize them.
- Act as key member of IT (Scrum team) Create USs story, guide Design and Development teams to understand the needs and prioritize USs
- Features prioritization and backlog management for future PIP.
- Act as the main link between key stakeholders to harmonize decision making
- Accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product. They take a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress through each iteration.
- The product owner makes the judgment call on the performance, and gives go ahead between process phases.
- Contribution in product capacity management, change and release management, quality assurance
- Communication management for platform major and minor changes with customer & Impacted users.
- Work with product manager to set the product strategy and future vision
- Contribute to Knowledge Management Systems, product and service launch information and case studies.
- Interlock with product team regarding roadmap fine-tuning and potential product extensions.
- Accountable on operations and CSMs training for ORA INTL.
- Participate in Bid support process including pricing for standard requirements.
- Participate in new requests for new functionality and coordinate the evaluation of implementation alternatives mainly in the context of TTM or agile projects.
- Align with the business on development team pipeline (Backlog, releases and sprints) to avoid planning conflicts.
- Agrees with the scrum team about the done definition on the level of the story, sprint and release.
- Clearly communicate the scope and the Goal of the release to the scrum team.
- Experienced in SDLC, SAFe, Scrum
- Experience using Jira and confluence
- Service Management experience
- Consulting experience
- Thorough knowledge of IP technologies, devices, services, protocols, and applications
- Experience or ability to perform design activities in a wide range of products and services
- Knowledge of Orange Business Services products and solutions
- Deal with unclear scope and new products
- Manage critical discussions between business and technical stakeholders
- Excellent organizational and planning skills
- Customer facing skills with demonstrable experience
- Time management skills and able to balance tasks
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Independent self-starter
- B.Sc in Communication or Computer Engineering
- ITIL certified
- SAFe POPM certified
- Excellent in both spoken and written English
- Fluent in French is highly appreciated
- 7 - 10 years of experience in software development activities
- 3 -5 of experience as Product owner.