Inclusively is partnering with a major airline to hire a Enterprise Product Owner, Digital Portfolio Office. **Please note: this role is NOT an internal position with Inclusively but with the partner company.**

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Responsibilities:

Strategic Product Execution

• Partner with product leaders to translate high-level product strategy into executable backlogs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and business objectives.
• Rapidly assess and understand key product features that will have a significant impact on the assigned squads.
• Work with various squads to craft clear and concise user stories with defined acceptance criteria.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle within the development teams, facilitating delivery through continuous feedback loops with stakeholders.
• Lead sprint demos and ensure the successful delivery of features that meet predefined business criteria.
• Ensure alignment between product vision and execution across different product squads, coordinating efforts with other Product Owners as necessary.

Cross-Squad Collaboration and Leadership

• Lead and actively participate in all squad ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Facilitate backlog refinement meetings to ensure user stories are broken down into manageable, deliverable increments within each sprint.
• Act as the primary point of contact for integrating cross-squad efforts, ensuring coherent and consistent product development across teams.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by contributing to and facilitating Product Owner communities of practice, sharing knowledge and best practices across squads.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the bridge between stakeholders and development squads, ensuring that feedback is rapidly integrated and business objectives are consistently communicated and aligned.
• Engage regularly with stakeholders and Product Managers to provide insights on progress, aligning deliverables with the overarching enterprise strategy.
• Use a data-driven approach to validate decisions and provide evidence-based recommendations for new features and iterations.

Agile Methodology Advocacy

• Champion agile practices within the squads, ensuring that teams are following agile best practices to deliver high-quality features.
• Utilize agile management tools like Agility and Aha! to track product development progress and maintain data integrity.
• Promote a culture of flexibility and responsiveness, adapting the development process as priorities shift.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within a fast-paced, agile environment (4+ years preferred).
• Expertise working in an agile organization
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage shifting priorities while delivering on business objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with a strong emphasis on clarity and influence.
• Proficiency with enterprise tool for Agile and Roadmapping (e.g., Agility, Aha!) and an ability to maintain data hygiene.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience leveraging data to drive decision-making and feature prioritization.
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

• Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, alignment to STEM discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in large-scale enterprise-level ways of working and initiatives, with a focus on cross-squad coordination and integration.
• Familiarity with the airline industry
• Prior experience in customer and employee journey optimization and understanding of consumer behavior within digital spaces.