Product Owner

**TOSHIBA **GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS**, **INC.**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**POSITION DATA**

Job Title:
Product Owner

Exemption Status:
**TBD By HR**

Job Code:
**TBD By HR**

Grade:
**TBD By HR**

Division:
**Sales**

Target Bonus (%) or $):
**Click here to enter text.**

Department:
**Solution**

Sales Pay Mix:
**100**

**Location**:
**Australia**

% Travel Required:
**10-30%**

Lifting Required (lbs):
**N/A**

Management:
**People Manager** Functional Management (No Direct Reports)**

Environmental Conditions:
**N/A**
- The Product Owner (PO) will be responsible for both strategic and tactical aspects of a product. The PO will be responsible for product's vision, company objectives, and the market needs as well translating into actionable tasks and work with agile teams to execute those requirements.- Strategic:
- Evaluates business opportunities to define and optimize the product development plan, analysing and understanding the targeted markets, market trends, new technology, customer business issues and the competitive environment.
- Applies broad knowledge of company product capabilities and service offerings with in-depth analysis of market position to create and expand the portfolio of products and solution alternatives.
- Build and execute go-to-market plans. Uses technical expertise and extensive industry experience to formulate product strategies and identify new product opportunities
- Responsible for developing project plans designed to address customer needs and/or expand market share.
- Create the foundation for product development, validating early product definitions with customers.
- Provide insight to stakeholders on the product and market
- Own the product roadmap
- Tactical:
- Execute product strategy (translating business strategy into product strategy)
- Primarily responsible for championing the principles of Agile Development.
- Provide product marketing with insights on key differentiators and messages
- Participates in the development lifecycle by organizing and communicating product requirements for the development and quality engineers, with ability to write high-level requirements
- Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
- Be the representative and owner of the requirements throughout development and participate, either as a primary or delegate, in the final approval and acceptance of requirements implementation
- Participant in user acceptance testing (UAT) and requirements signoff
- Produces end of Agile iteration reports to stakeholders
- Maintains strong relationships with the development organization and acts as a trusted go-to representative for the product organization within their relevant area of influence
- Produces appropriate reports at end of sprint for relevant stakeholders. Reports including but not limited to backlog burndown, sprint burnup, and requirements readiness analysis.
- Drive action throughout the organization to get products to market
- Plan and carry out product launches
- Manage product profitability and commercial success - own the business case
- Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education or Equivalent:
High School Diploma or GED Associate Degree bachelor's Degree Master's Degree PhD Juris Doctor Degree

Degree Emphasis: Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field

Equivalent combination of education/experience acceptable

Experience Level:
None 1+ yrs 3+ yrs 5+ yrs 8+ Yrs 10+ Yrs 12+ Yrs

Management Experience Level:
NO EXP < 4 yrs 4+ Yrs 6+ yrs 8+ yrs 10+ yrs

AREAS OF EXPERTISE & SPECIAL SKILLS
- Dynamic, articulate, energetic and self-starter personality with demonstrated ability to translate industry and customer insight into executable strategic vision
- Proven results-driven individual with good business acumen; ability to manage forecasts, costs, and budgets to meet strategic objectives for the business
- In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
- Working knowledge of product development architecture
- Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
- Ability to prioritize effectively
- Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Understanding of design quality standards
- Demonstrated ability to translate well documented requirements into actionable work items

Areas of Expertise & Special Skills:

- Retail Solutions - cloud solutions, POS software, Promotions, Loyalty, Self Service technologies & Mobility
- Software development and web technologies

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

REPORTS TO:

- Claudia Dias

MANAGES:

- N/A

EXTERNAL CONTACTS:
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

**_RESPONSIBILITY_**

**ESSENTIAL**

**% TIME**
- Product Management (external inputs from customers, market and competition)

30%
- Product Backlog Management
- 60_%
- Championing the principles of Agile Development
- 10_%
- Perform other related duties as described in position summary and