MetLife

This is a critical role with significant accountability to build and manage relationships and responsibilities across the agile teams and within the team.  POs work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Management, Customers, Business Owners, team members and other stakeholders to create viable and sustainable plans, and constantly seek feedback from multiple stakeholders incorporating into the plans.

POs share accountability with Product Managers for delivery outcomes and make decisions to solve product related problems.  You lead the creation and alignment of business scenarios and supporting details for product feature testing, so they are clearly understood by the agile teams.  

POs are effective at holding the team accountable to deliver outcomes by:  working with others to actively explore solution options, ensuring decisions are taken by those with accountability for delivering outcomes, and dedicating their effort to delivering value, that meet the needs of MetLife’s customers and our business goals.

What you will do in this role…

·       Work with Product Management to decompose epics into features, assess value and prioritize the stories

·       Ensure work focuses on those stories with a maximum value, aligned with product strategy, roadmap, and key milestones

·       Help refine, prioritize, and accept the work delivered by an Agile team to ensure the outcome meets the defined acceptance criteria

·       Develop use cases, scenarios and supporting details for the product features at the appropriate level so they are clearly understood by the development teams

·       Make decisions to solve product related problems, trade-off discussions, to stay on track to committed outcomes. (acceptance, prioritizing, making trade-offs, etc.)

·       Collaborate with the team to create viable and sustainable plans

·       Manage stakeholders’ expectations through iterative demonstrations of completed work

·       Hold the team accountable for what has been defined as set criteria, receiving, and incorporating feedback from multiple sources

·       Active interaction with Product Management and other partners to protect the integrity of the deliverables

To help you succeed, you need to have…

·       Agile certification

·       Demonstrated capability to lead teams from solution design through execution, achieving measurable outcomes

·       2-3 years of experience operating within an agile framework, with a strong focus on Lean methodology

Are you passionate about bringing your unique background and skills to a team of talented, diverse people? If you are looking for personal growth and a chance to make an impact, we invite you to apply to Product Owner role.

Join MetLife and let’s find out what we can build together!