• Product Management Team Lead-Agile Delivery/ 100% Remote
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Zions Bancorporation is seeking an Agile Delivery Product Manager to join its team working with the Payments and Treasury Agile Release Train (ART). Delivery Product Managers are responsible for coordinating Features through the kanban system at a Program / ART level. They collaboratively work with Epic Owners and additional Product Manager and Technical SMEs within Payments and Treasury to understand intent of Epics, and thereby work with Product Owners to share the related priority of Features.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for coordinating Features through the system at a Program / Agile Release Train (ART) level
• Responsible to prioritize the features based on delivery against the Epic priorities
• Responsible and accountable to facilitate Feature definition
• Create, own, and manage the Program/ART backlog, constantly collaborating with customers and the team to ensure work items are refined and prioritized
• Continuously engage with the business, technology, and other key stakeholders to stay informed, nurturing strong and trusting relationships and increasing business knowledge to represent product vision and customer/business needs to the team
• Accountable to coordinate feature prioritization across a program when dependencies arise
• Accountable to coordinate trade-off discussions when conflicting Epic, Feature, Maintenance and Enabler priorities arise
• Responsible for accepting feature completion (i.e. achieving acceptance criteria demonstrated in system or team demos)
• Collaborate with the team for demos and delivery of team commitments
• Accountable to provide insights into the commitments for value delivered by the ART
• Help identify organizational impediments and works with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them
• Responsible to work with Architecture to identify and prioritize Enablers (features) or work needed to delivery on epic or feature priorities
• Accountable and responsible to facilitates Feature Review in advance of PI Planning event to promote prioritization alignment
• Exemplify agile principles, encourage good practices, encourage, and assist team to continue to develop and mature in agile practices and methodologies
• Help to identify and raise obstacles and champion/enable self-organizing or high performing teams
• Champion mindset changes and belief re-sets required to affect the desired business results
• Encourage transparency to the organization to help grow trust
• Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
• Excellent planning, organizational, analytical and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including coaching and mentorship qualities
• Excellent decision making, problem resolution, listening and team building skills
• Ability to effectively engage with various levels of leadership
• Advanced understanding of the broader product development lifecycle in large enterprise settings
• Experience as a Delivery Product Manager in a large enterprise utilizing scaling practices, building complex solutions using teams of teams, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), contributing to successful value delivery & agile methodology experience
• Expert knowledge of the agile frameworks & scaling models, Agile Values and Principles and the Scrum Methodology including iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, iteration reviews and system demos, iteration retrospectives, PI Planning, Demos, Inspect & Adapt Workshops, Scrum-of-Scrums, PO Sync, and ART Sync
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, mathematics, computer science or a related field & 4-6 + years experience contributing to strategic creation & building out of products, accelerating value delivery to customers, working with cross-functional teams to realize products, employing innovative mindsets & practices to product development (design-thinking, lean startup approach, MVP, rapid prototyping, frequent feedback cycles, customer centricity).
• Working knowledge in multiple agile practices: Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban, XDD, Scrum@Scale, Nexus, SAFe, etc.
• Experience with Agile work item management tools, such as JIRA, Azure Dev Ops (ADO), or similar tools preferred
• A combination of education & experience may meet requirements
Associated topics: chief program officer, cpo, manage, manager, management, monitor, product manager, project manager, relationship manager, task