Platform Owner

 

Location: Remote

Duration: 3-month contract with extensions

Pay: $55.00 hourly

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Platform Owner will have ownership of product(s) and be responsible for developing and maintaining the product vision into an actionable road map. This role will be responsible for achieving business goals through prioritization, development and delivery of high value capabilities and features while leveraging a robust set of product research and analytics capabilities for decision making. This role manages the product backlog and stakeholders to ensure success. An understanding of the end user, external market pressures and all stakeholder goals is needed to ensure continuous delivery of the highest business value first in accordance with defined product roadmap.

 

• Lead the development of a product vision, then drive a process to bring that vision to life.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure that they understand the vision for the product.
• Champion the needs of the customer and RBS/AD USA business goals throughout the execution of a project
• Lead the prioritization of features and understand the art of sequencing their delivery within an agile framework.
• Partner with IT on development, testing & implementation plans, as well as internal communications & deployment plans.
• Work with development teams and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams.
• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Ensure both quality and functional goals are met with each sprint.
• Communicate detailed requirements, epics, and stories to ensure schedules are followed for short-term requirements aligned to long-term plan.
• Partner to ensure integrity is maintained throughout program lifecycle and ensure market and business needs are satisfied.
• Interpret and adhere to standard legal, compliance, and business rules during program design and development.
• The role will involve hands on work in terms of writing functional stories, acceptance criteria, testing and analysis and will follow Agile ceremonies (Release Planning, Sprint planning/ Retro / Review, etc.) and principles throughout the product development phases.
• Synthesize business requirements, identify areas of uncertainty, recommend solutions, gather buy-in from relevant stakeholders, roll solution out to team, shepherd feature through development and review code before rollout.
• Develop metrics to measure success of program features, analyze results, and partner across the organization to develop action plans and enhancement recommendations.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of experience
• Collaborative mindset
• Communication skills- articulate and knows how to speak with customers and stakeholders
• Effective in stakeholder mgmt.
• Retail Experience (grocery or Enterprise)

 

Category Code: JN008, JN037