Product Owner Iii

2 months ago

Brackenfell, South Africa ShopriteX Full time

**Role Purpose**

We are seeking a dynamic Product Owner to join our Strategic Partnerships, New Business Development & Customer Innovation team. As part of this external, digitally focused team, you will play a pivotal role in driving customer innovation and new opportunities to fuel the Shoprite ecosystem. The team's mission is to unlock alternative revenue streams through new strategic initiatives, partnerships and strategic investments.

In this role, you will support and lead the delivery of innovative solutions, working closely with cross functional stakeholders to identify and develop new ventures that align with our long-term growth strategy. Your focus will be on transforming ideas into tangible products, driving value creation and ensuring alignment with business objectives to grow and diversify Shoprite's ecosystem.

The Product Owner III 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. The role engages and collaborates with product management to execute the product vision, strategy and roadmap.

**Role Description**
- Lead the design of any new feature (“continuous exploration”) and work with business stakeholders to design the optimal user experience and assess the impact on the On Demand backend. This includes but is not limited to:

- Facilitating workshops to gather the feature's requirements o Creating wireframes of the optimal user experience o Engaging business stakeholders to review the user experience and obtain their input and sign-off
- Working with designers to ensure the UI created by them aligns to the wireframes and feature requirements
- Documenting the impact of a user experience on data models, business logic and business rules with the various On Demand microservices (backend) affected by the change. This can include:

- Context diagrams
- System/data flows
- Tables summarising scenarios that impact business logic
- High-level system integration requirements (incl. data fields required in request and response payloads), etc.
- Reviewing integration specifications (IFS) from Functional Analysts to ensure that they address all requirements originating from the user experience
- Provide input into the refinement of the program backlog, ensuring the team is familiar with the features being brought into PI planning, collaborating with program management in the refinement of the backlog and keeping them informed of progress in achieving team PI objectives.
- Continuously refine and sequence the product backlog:

- Gather the requirements for the product and capture them in the form of a product backlog, consisting of user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Ensure all user stories are written and that each user story has acceptance criteria.
- Provide visible, transparent and clear direction, ensuring the development team is clear on priorities:

- Provide clear solution direction to the agile team.
- Balance PI objectives with local team requirements.
- Ensure team backlog readiness for next iteration.
- Include the team in backlog refinement.
- Participate in ART level events: ART sync, Product Owner Scrum of Scrums, Inspect and Adapt, PI Planning, daily stand-ups and system demos.
- Help create a release plan and track progress towards the release of a product.
- Drive mobile digital omnichannel customer engagement based on customer preference and omnichannel strategies.
- Ensure a consistent and delightful customer experience across all digital touchpoints of the Shoprite customer journey.
- Provide strategic input to customer experience improvements that help drive customer acquisition, customer retention, and conversion.
- Actively promote and advocate product features and customer-first product design.
- Adhere to and improve customer service levels across businesses and service.
- Provide integrated reporting and feedback.
- Test new features in the staging environment (user acceptance testing) to provide business signoff
- Engage at a senior level with respect to customer centric product concepts and best practices.
- Coach and support junior and mid-level product owners in their development.

**Qualifications and experience**
- Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Marketing or another relevant field - (essential).
- Certified Product Owner / certified SAFe Product Owner - (essential).
- +6 years' experience in a Lead or Senior Product Owner role, with experience working in an agile team and proven success launching new and complex product features and translating business strategy and analysis into successful consumer products - (essential).
- Extensive experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects (essential).
- Depth of understanding and experience with analytics and big data - (essential).
- Strong commercial experience in dig

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