Product Owner

We’re looking for a Product Owner - Career (P3) to join the Equifax Global Product team. You will provide the technical thought leadership to the product team, bridging the gap between idea and development, advancing technologies/concepts and seeking cross business unit collaboration on solutions. You will work in a team that develops the formal global platform product roadmap that will allow for teams to reuse services across the business units to expedite speed to delivery.

You will partner with your peers across Equifax to help define product implementation strategy, working closely with business partners, engineering leaders and data & analytics leaders. You will be responsible for clearly setting the product prioritization for specific lines of products or business units, with a balance of near-term deliverables and longer-term investment in technology platforms.

You will also regularly assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations and make trade-offs stabilizing product needs against constraints. Your passion, drive and intellect will inspire thoughtful behavior that maximizes value for customers and benefits the greater enterprise.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Know the customer & stakeholders: Understands the needs of customers and stakeholders in a broader context; Develops partnership relationships with key engineering and QA counterparts and engages with Architecture teams as needed.
- Understand the Problem(s) to be solved: Participates in Office hours with users, customers and stakeholders to understand defects and Incidents; Become the first level of contact to triage any issues brought forward by Business units.
- Develops whole product solutions: Understands the end product/functionality needed and can distinguish defect vs enhancement.
- Contributes to the Plan and Roadmap: Be able to prioritize and drive resolving defects and incidents. Provides inputs to QE partners to ensure testing approach and high level use cases are considered in the solution and estimation; Provide input into enhancements needed to add to the roadmap.
- Dependency management: Drives the process to identify, capture and document dependencies required to deliver the solution in partnership with engineering and architecture teams; Interacts with dependent teams to understand dependencies.
- Backlog Prioritization and planning: Active participant in the process of initial estimates and value/effort assessment to define scope of quarterly increments; Contributes to the analysis of how work should be sequenced and the implications to the critical path.
- User Story creation: Reviews initial drafts of stories developed and/or contributes to refinement for Product Management review
- Prioritization and sprint planning: Aligns prioritization with Product Management and Product Owner best practices for defined backlog; Creates sprint, sprint goal, ensures sprint plans are in place for the current sprint and the subsequent two sprints; Drives alignment with upstream dependencies to deliver
- Testing and Acceptance Criteria: Drives adherence to story acceptance criteria to ensure development team delivers according to desired outcome and readiness checklist; Partners with QE and Engineering lead to define testing approach, scope and planning; Provides final sign-off/acceptance of stories
- Demos: Reviews initial drafts and partners with product managers to prepare and present sprint/quarterly demos.
- Captures feedback from Demos: Actively lead documentation and synthesize feedback from demos for tangible future work efforts to be considered in the backlog with Product Management.
- Delivery Retrospectives: Velocity, quality (incidents/bugs), reasons for delays: Understands drivers of team velocity; Understands testing gaps that drove incidents and bugs; Understands drivers for delays in committed deliverables; Synthetizes learnings and proposes a prioritized set of changes in partnership with technology partners.
- Monitors adoption KPIs: Understands metrics driving the adoption success of the released value and proposes changes to upcoming deliverables to drive improvements.
- Adopts feedback in future iterations: Drives the scope and/or changes to new release increments to feedback collected.

**What experience you need**
- 5+ years’ experience working in a product management or a product owner role

Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- GCP Experience
- Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to translate customer business needs into product roadmap features
- Strong presentation skills, including the ability to rationalize product features
- Strong technical skills preferred, to be able to break business requirements down to a technical level
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives/priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Working knowledge of standard SDLC processes in an Agile framework
- Ability to develop effective working relationships with peers, managers, and senior managem