Senior Product Owner

The Product Owner Manage backlog for different platforms, collect & analyse 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 evaluation of product development and changes requirments
- Understanding and anticipating the business needs to more effectively manage the development process
- Collect new product development requirements, qualify and prioritize them.
- Create the US story, help the IT team to understand the needs and prioritize the US
- Features prioritization and backlog management for shared platforms
- Act as the main link between 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 platform 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.
- Demo platform ownership.
- Accountable on operations and CSMs training for CICV2.
- 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.

Accountabilities

1. Develop & maintain product catalogue up to date
2. Attend backlog refinement & scrum meetings
3. Review and monitor development and test plans
4. Problems resolution & escalation
5. Participate in UAT if needed
6. Set regular calls with business owners for backlog maturation
7. Update tracking tools like Jira, SNOW

**about you**:

- Knowelege of SDLC, SAFe, Scrum, TTM & ATM practices
- SNOW & Jira experience
- Service Management experience
- Consulting experience
- Solarwinds products experience especially
- 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
- Excellent in both spoken and written English
- Fluent in French is highly appreciated
- 7 to 10 years of experience in telecom industry
- 3-5 of experience as Product owner.

**additional information**:
**department**:Orange Gbl Sol for Business

**contract**:Regular