Agile Product Management Senior Advisor

The job profile for this position is Agile Product Management Senior Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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Key Responsibilities

 Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own and communicate the product vision, roadmap, and priorities
• Translate business strategy into features, epics, and user stories
• Partner with Product Managers and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on outcomes
• Drive customer-centric decision making and value delivery

 Backlog & Delivery Management

• Own and maintain a well-groomed, prioritized backlog
• Write definition-of-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and prioritization activities
• Ensure incremental, iterative delivery of MVPs and product features

 Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with:
  • Business partners and clients
  • Engineering and architecture teams
  • QA and release management
• Act as the voice of the customer and ensure requirements reflect real user needs
• Facilitate sprint reviews, demos, and stakeholder feedback loops

Agile Leadership & Execution

• Provide servant leadership to agile teams
• Drive agile ceremonies (refinement, planning, demos, retrospectives)
• Remove blockers and escalate issues when needed
• Improve team performance through metrics and data-driven insights

Technical Alignment & Quality

• Partner with engineering to:
  • Incorporate architectural guidance and technical constraints
  • Ensure scalability, performance, and security requirements
• Own definition of done and acceptance validation
• Support testing strategy, defect triage, and production support processes

Product Health & Metrics

• Define and monitor product health KPIs
  • Quality metrics (defects, stability)
  • Delivery metrics (velocity, throughput)
  • Business outcomes
• Ensure regulatory, compliance, and security expectations are met

Cross-Team & Program Coordination

• Coordinate dependencies across multiple teams and TPOs
• Align features with program-level goals and enterprise roadmaps
• Manage release planning, communications, and documentation

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience in:
  • Product Ownership / Product Management
  • Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience managing technical products and engineering-driven solutions
• Strong understanding of:
  • APIs, microservices, cloud platforms
  • SDLC and CI/CD practices

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong business + technical acumen
• Excellent stakeholder communication and influence
• Agile mindset with focus on continuous improvement
• Ability to manage ambiguity and complex dependencies
• Data-driven decision making and prioritization

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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