Demonstrates expertise in product ownership within Agile environments, effectively translating product strategy into actionable tasks and user stories while prioritizing customer needs and business value. Strong communication skills facilitate collaboration across teams and stakeholders to drive successful product delivery.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Product OwnershipAgile MethodologiesBacklog ManagementUser Story DevelopmentStakeholder Communication

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define product direction and development priorities supporting NMDP’s mission to save lives through cellular therapy
Maintain product backlog success, health, and readiness
Partner with Product Managers, stakeholders, customers, and Agile teams to understand needs and deliver valuable work
Set development priorities, define strategic initiatives, and manage the portfolio backlog
Gather and validate customer and stakeholder problems, needs, and jobs to be done
Prioritize impactful features and enhancements based on customer needs and business value
Own planned and unplanned work while evaluating trade-offs
Lead backlog refinement and prioritization using operational, market, and user data
Identify and validate hypotheses, assumptions, and risks to maximize ROI and business impact
Drive planning and release activities and maintain delivery cadence through sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
Communicate delivery progress, sprint updates, and release status across teams and stakeholders
Mitigate impediments and support successful sprint and release outcomes
Translate product strategy into actionable tasks and user stories
Communicate product vision and business value to the development team
Write and maintain clear, complete, testable user stories with acceptance criteria, context, dependencies, and supporting details
Use team capacity and historical velocity for sprint planning, delivery forecasting, and scope or sequencing adjustments
Review completed work against acceptance criteria and support timely acceptance decisions

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or another related field preferred
Equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for the degree requirement upon evaluation
Two years of previous experience as a product owner or related role
Four years of experience defining and prioritizing requirements in an Agile environment
Experience working within Scrum and other Agile methodologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to translate business and technology concepts for technical and nontechnical audiences
Strong knowledge of functional and business areas
Ability to solve complex problems and make sound decisions amid ambiguity, risk, and uncertainty
Ability to manage multiple priorities through negotiation, delegation, and conflict resolution
Ability to maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive information and records
Understanding of connections across multiple applications in a federated enterprise architecture
Ability to accommodate infrequent travel
Ability to work extended hours as required to meet deadlines or support after-hours product releases
Experience working in a highly integrated technical environment preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Life and disability benefits
Accident, critical illness, and hospital benefits
Well-being benefits
Legal benefits
Identity theft and pet benefits
Retirement plan
Paid time off and holidays
Leave benefits
Incentive plans for eligible employees
Remote work arrangement

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Hard Skills

AgileScrumBacklog RefinementUser Story WritingRequirements PrioritizationDelivery ForecastingRisk ManagementData AnalysisSprint PlanningAcceptance Criteria

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationProblem SolvingNegotiationConflict ResolutionDecision Making

Industry Keywords

Cellular TherapyProduct DevelopmentStakeholder EngagementEnterprise ArchitectureTechnical Environment