*requisition title*:product owner
*requisition id*:225702br
thermo fisher scientific inc. (nyse: tmo) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of almost $40 billion and approximately 110,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands - thermo scientific, applied biosystems, invitrogen, fisher scientific and unity lab services.
*location/division*: tijuana, mexico corporate offices
*what will you do?*
- facilitative leader who can encourage agile scrum teams and drive consensus and decision
- work with product managers, solution owner, engineering manager, architects, ui/ux designers and global colleagues to turn innovative ideas and customer problems into valuable software epics and user stories
- builds well-defined product requirements including epics, user stories, and acceptance test criteria depending on product roadmap features
- prioritizes and maintains the product backlog for assigned features, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
- plan and build sufficient work for next few sprints
- work with the release train engineer, product management, and their scrum master to ensure the team is prepared in advance of program level events such as pi planning, inspect and adapt and system demos
- assists team in effective preparation for art activities, including pi planning, system demos, and inspect and adapt
- guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps to understand on how to estimate features and capabilities
- leads functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
- defines and conducts go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, and leadership have what they need to be successful
- prioritize feature backlog and define product increments to improve customer value and meet business goals
- collaborate with scrum teams and other product owners to advance our digital science roadmap though quarterly software releases
*how will you get here?*
*education*
bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent of 6+ years of experience
*experience*
- minimum 4+ years as a product owner in an agile environment across multiple cross-functional teams
- demonstrated ability in software development as a developer or business analyst
- knowledge of agile software development methodologies, including safe, scrum, and the relevant tools like jira and confluence
- the ability to get things done and move things forward actively
- experience optimally driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g., dashboards, apis, real time alerts
- experience with customer identity access management would be a plus
- experience, instincts, and passion around testing and testability and driving quality objectives
- established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of agile principles
- experience in driving implementation and reporting of non-functional requirements (nfr - security, performance, cost)
*knowledge, skills, abilities*
- a highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “determine what needs figuring out”
- excellent verbal and written communication skills (english - spanish)
- ability to effectively detail artifacts and processes then explain them to others
- highly motivated teammate with a strong desire for continuous learning and broadening knowledge base
- strong ability to communicate and influence business and technical teams