Gravity IT Resourcing
Product Owner
Morrisville, North Carolina
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Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Remote
Job-Type: Contract
Referral Fee: $600
Employment Eligibility: Gravity cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly (we are not open to contract or “corp to corp” agreements).
Position Overview:
Gravity is looking for a Product Owner to help our client’s development teams eliminate barriers through the implementation of agile and scrum practices. Working across departments to capture and prioritize business needs, this person will manage the backlog of cross-functional teams.
The successful candidate will possess 5+ years of experience working to implement scrum and agile practices for offshore development teams. Specifically, experience managing development teams at a SaaS company is preferred. Any experience at a Healthcare/Pharma company is a plus.
Our client is an integrated life sciences commercialization partner that provides comprehensive solutions that span the entire healthcare value chain. This organization helps navigate the complex life sciences marketplace and provides commercialization solutions to accelerate value and enhance patient lives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
· Manage and prioritize the team backlog, working with stakeholders to ensure that it accurately reflects current priorities and business value
· Write clear product backlog stories, prioritizing items that best meet overall team and company objectives
· Ensure team is performing in a manner to provide optimized value
· Work closely with business owners and SME’s to understand and write user stories to prioritize requirements
· Work with scrum master and team to set and deliver upon sprint goals
Required Experience & Skills:
·5+ years of experience working as a PO and implementing Agile and Scrum best practices into development team sprints
· 5+ years of experience managing offshore development teams driving their deliverables to on time completion
· 5+ years of experience working across an organization with internal and external stakeholders, building and maintaining strong relationships
· Experience leading development teams in a SaaS environment is preferred
· Experience in the Healthcare space is preferred