Senior Product Owner, Business Applications

Are you passionate about learning and intellectually curious? Do you thrive in a fast paced, innovative work environment where team members hold themselves and others accountable? Are you energized by trying new things, have an agile mindset and enjoy making an impact? Is working for a purpose driven organization important to you? If the answers to these questions are a resounding YES, then read on!

Skillsoft is the global leader in corporate learning. We help businesses solve their biggest challenge – attracting, motivating and retaining world class talent. Our team is recognized for cutting edge digital learning and human capital management solutions. Trusted by the world's leading organizations, including 65% of the Fortune 500, we train more professionals than any other company in the world. Our 100,000+ courses, videos and books are accessed over 130 million times every month, in 160 countries and 29 languages. At Skillsoft, we believe that knowledge is the fuel for innovation and innovation is the fuel for business growth.

We are all about "Making Work Matter." With over 2000 employees around the world, we are always looking for amazing talent!

Overview:

The Senior Product Owner (SPO) Business Applications, provides leadership for the Business Application product team and fills role of product owner on one of our scrum teams. The SPO works closely with the business to understand their strategic goals and objectives. The SPO responsibilities include all aspects of user story creation and prioritization with the business and scrum team, sprint planning, sprint review and backlog refinement.

The SPO is an experienced, driven, results-oriented professional responsible for successful for maximizing the value delivered from the executed user stories. A successful candidate is a strong communicator and can support large-scale initiatives-working with multiple business partners, stakeholders and sometimes vendors. The SPO works in collaboration to align and prioritize user stories through development, planning, execution, testing, implementation and through business readiness activities. The SPO works with other POs and Scrum Teams to ensure all aspects of each deliverable is compatible and coordinates with Business Application management for resource capacity and other priorities including initiative summaries for management and Executive Leadership review, as needed.

The SPO is familiar with a variety of agile concepts, ceremonies, and practices. The SPO relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish each sprint. The SPO performs a variety of tasks where a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Opportunity Highlights:

Create and continually refine a shared product vision, strategy, direction and roadmap for business applications and scrum teams Apply agile values, principles, and best practices across the organization.

Mentor other product owners on product ownership and provide day to day support and management for PO team activities

Provide transparency into backlog and progress.

Provide leadership to teams to ensure the focus is on key priorities and there is alignment to achieve business outcomes.

Facilitate meetings / workshops, to create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team members to gather requirements and turn them into user stories.

Serve as the primary liaison between business partners, stakeholders and other POs and development teams, managing the relationship with all stakeholders.

Influence stakeholders through strong leadership skills and provide decision making with business and technical teams.

Facilitate agile ceremonies of a Product Owner.

Coordinate with internal resources and /or third-party vendors for sprint execution as needed.

Lead refinement exercises, accountable for sprint readiness.

Continually develop leadership skills and attend training as required to maintain Agile PO proficiency and best practices.

Skills & Qualifications:

5-7 years' experience as a Product Owner in direct support of a large scrum effort for a business application organization, working on initiatives/projects focused on application development.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

Experience with Salesforce required.

Experience with JIRA preferred.

Experience with Apttus CLM, Marketo and other marketing tech stack is preferred.

Bachelor's degree, MBA preferred.

10+ years of sales, marketing, support, or operations experience is a plus.

Product Owner and/or other Agile Certification desired.

Success Qualities:

Adaptable and Agile. Responds quickly to the changing needs of the business and is resilient in the face of setbacks or adversity.

Confident & Audacious Achiever. Champions breakthrough initiatives and holds him/herself and others accountable for delivering. Enjoys working hard; is action-oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting without over-analysis.

Entrepreneurial Spirit with Learner's Mindset. Is uncomfortable with simply maintaining "status quo" and is intellectually curious and demanding of excellence and continuous improvement.

Committed to our Collective Purpose. Leverages cross functional collaboration to solve complex business issues and drive greater results.

Authentic & Customer Centric. Never compromises integrity to achieve results while constantly being mindful of creating a positive customer experience both internally and externally. Adheres to an uncompromising set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; practices what he/she preaches. Acts with the highest standards of conduct and is seen as a direct, truthful individual.

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