Junior Product Owner - Homechoice (Southern Suburbs (Cape)) at HomeChoice Holdings Limited

Description

homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For over 35 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.

The Product Owner is a member of the agile team, responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team. Aside from focusing on the scrum team, you will also work closely with both internal and external business stakeholders, engineering and (UX) user experience teams to successfully deliver against the prioritized features for the Program Increment.

What you will love doing in this role   

• Responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the Agile team, which requires the PO to ensure that the right solutions are built and built the right way.
  • Provides input into the refinement of the program backlog, ensuring the team is familiar with the features being brought into
• PI planning.
  • Continuously refines and sequence the product backlog, ensuring that each feature consists of user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Is an active member of the scrum team, joining agile ceremonies and working collaboratively with the team to deliver business value in the form of feature requests.
  • Has strong problem-solving capabilities with proposed/conceptual solutions ultimately resulting in improved/optimized user experiences.
• Team Effectiveness.
  • Live the Company values and work effectively as an active and contributing member to achieve team goals.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management.
  • Identify, build, and nurture trust and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• The Jnr Product Owner works with the teams to break down Features from the Product Owner/Manager into consumable
  stories with agreed acceptance criteria.
• Active involvement in certain team and program meetings: Feature writing (if required), PI planning, all team meetings
  such as Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement. Product
  Owner syncs and Program syncs on the program level (if required).
• Ensure alignment between work delivered and Product Managers ultimate expectations as defined in the feature
  statements.
• Inputting into the vision and strategy. Whilst this is the responsibility of the Product Manager, the Jnr Product Owner may
  be involved in this. Write and prioritize features with acceptance criteria to help guide the team and align stakeholders.
• Understand and be actively involved in removing impediments to team performance that are raised by either the Scrum
  Team or Master.
• Communicating risks effectively to stakeholders.
• Communicate and align with other Product Owners when inter-team dependencies and trade-offs are required to be
  solved.
• Make day to day decisions that will guide the team’s delivery.

Requirements

What you'll need to do this role

• Bachelor's Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7
• Certified Product Owner/SAFe certified - ideal
• 4 years of experience in a similar role

Technical Competencies

• Client orientation and customer focus
  • Value is determined by the customer (be it internal or external); therefore, the PO is keenly aware of the needs of the people to whom their products are delivered.
• Analysing information
  • Systematically exploring and reviewing information to discover meaningful patterns that assist in either completing a task or adding value with continuous improvement.
• Problem-solving and analysis
  • Analyses issues and breaks them down into smaller consumable components. Makes systematic and rational decisions based on the relevant information at hand.
• Designing systems
  • Has the ability to take a consultative approach when defining architecture, modules, interfaces, and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements.
• Communication
  • The PO can consume the problem statement from the customer and relate it to features or stories which is consumable by the dev teams, whilst ensuring that constant communication flows between the various audiences.