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Full-Time Product Owner at Yahoo!

Job Description
- Customer Engagement
– Engages and solicits Stakeholder and Customer feedback to validate priorities and compromises
– Represents Customer and Stakeholder interests to teams - Maintain the Product Backlog
– Responsible for ensuring that Backlog items are elaborated into User Stories and acceptance criteria
– With input from PPO and Stakeholders, aligns the Backlog according to product roadmap
– Single escalation point for tradeoff decisions on scope/schedule/cost for a Team - Alignment across Teams within a Pod
– Understands the dependencies of other Teams and considers them in prioritization
– Communicates product dependencies to other Teams in order to minimize impediments
– Understands how cross-team Stories roll up into a single Feature - Participate in Scrum Activities
– Works with the team on a consistent basis to communicate prioritization rationale
– Re-negotiates Sprint priorities when team communicates new discoveries that impact size or value of work.
– Responsible for staying abreast of the Scrum Team’s daily progress
– Participates in Sizing Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews
– Validates User Stories during the Sprint to confirm implementation meets intent of acceptance criteria and accepts the completion of the StoryKnowledge & experience
- Degree: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent;
- Strong and proven experience of supporting the development of a product vision and strategy
- Experience of the end-to-end product management & development process from ideation to delivery
- Strong analytical experience
- Experience of managing and influencing cross-functional groups and driving consensus
- Experience in an agile environment preferred
- Fluency in both English and Hungarian a significant advantage
- International working experience a plus.
- Skills and behaviours
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
- Excellent business analysis and organisational skills, ideally with experience of running projects first hand
- Self-starter, highly motivated individual – capable of working in/with teams and working alone.
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