Remote Position
Senior Product Owner / Scrum Master
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Job Description:
- Set and communicate product vision and roadmap
- Own the product backlog, write user stories, define acceptance criteria, and refine work
- Prioritize scope, budget, timeframe, customer value, goals, and defect resolution
- Plan product releases and schedule benchmarks and upgrades around customer approval processes
- Lead and coach Scrum teams toward self-organization and cross-functionality
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Identify and remove impediments to sprint and release goals
- Coach development teams and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices
- Serve as primary contact between delivery teams and stakeholders
- Track and report progress, velocity, and other relevant metrics
- Contribute to scaling Agile practices across the program
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and follow-through on agreed actions
- Lead delivery teams across infrastructure modernization, data engineering, and application development
- Collaborate with PMO peers and leadership on status, issues, risks, decisions, and change requests
- Work regularly with customer stakeholders from engineers and technical project managers to executives
- Participate in onboarding, compliance training, learning assignments, and meetings
Requirements:
- Located in the United States and authorized to work there for the full duration of the engagement
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- SAFe experience, including certification and application across at least two or three programs
- Thorough grasp of Agile principles, values, and the Scrum framework
- Proven ability to facilitate effective Scrum ceremonies and manage a product backlog
- Previous Product Owner experience across all stages of the product life cycle
- Ability to set and communicate product vision and translate stakeholder needs into user stories and acceptance criteria
- Experience identifying and removing impediments to team progress
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
- Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- At least seven years of experience in a technical, engineering, or software development environment
- At least three years managing IT deployment projects
- Experience managing a team of engineers
- Experience delivering in large or complex enterprise environments
- Comfort working within governance, compliance, and approval processes
- Strong organizational, time-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, and Smartsheet
- Positive approach to change and ability to adapt
- IT consulting experience
- Project management certification such as PMP
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Experience delivering and managing projects on Google Cloud or another major public cloud
- Business systems analysis certification or experience
- Experience with Kanban or Lean
- Experience scaling Agile with LeSS or Nexus
- Experience leading distributed teams
- Experience running training sessions and workshops
Benefits:
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Long-term career development pathway with individual contributor or management track
- Onboarding and training, including learning materials, assignments, compliance training, and meetings
- Development plan based on contribution breadth and quality, estimates, customer feedback, peer collaboration, and consultative judgment