Role Overview: We are seeking an Agile Product Owner with experience in the Energy industry to lead product development within our Transformers Value Stream. This pivotal role involves close interaction with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring the alignment of product development with market needs and customer use cases. The Agile Product Owner will create, manage and maintain the product backlog, making critical and difficult prioritization decisions for the squads and the business, and will be instrumental in developing use cases and multi generation product roadmaps that address end user pain points. 

Key Responsibilities

• End-user Problem Definition: Identify and articulate end-user pain points and expected end -user experience throughout the life cycle of the product. 
• User Personas: Deeply understand user personas, their business workflows and pain points.  
• Product Roadmap Development: Create and maintain comprehensive multigeneration product plans covering end user feature details. 
• Requirement Gathering: Define and document product user stories. 
• Backlog Management: Own the product backlog and prioritize features and enhancements for the development squads. 
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing to set strategic priorities and launch successful products. 
• Customer Advisory Councils: Establish and lead customer advisory councils in collaboration with the Value Stream Leader and Product Marketing teams to gather feedback and insights. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science or Engineering related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for stakeholder interaction.
• Ability to analyze market trends and user feedback.
• Experience in defining user personas, developing product roadmaps, and managing backlogs.
• Strategic thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Certification in Agile methodologies (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner).
  • Training can be provided to certify previous experience.
• Good knowledge of medium to high voltage power transformers and asset protection and monitoring products.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Proven experience as an Agile Product Owner or similar role in product management 
• Hands-on experience in backlog management covering the full product lifecycle.
• Understanding of the power utility industry and the various Asset protection and monitoring players.
• Solid grasp of relevant Asset protection and monitoring products including combinations of sensors and monitoring systems for temperature, pressure, flow, partial discharge, and dissolved gas analysis.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and backlog tools (Jira)
• Experience in distributed data acquisition, substation automation, grid monitoring, or industrial IoT solutions.
• Experience establishing customer panels and driving user-driven product enhancements.
• Experience going to Gemba, mapping customer workflow and identifying use cases to deliver world class customer experience.

If you are passionate about driving product success and have a keen understanding of user needs and market dynamics, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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