About the Role / About the Job
The Proxy Product Owner partners with the Product Owner and Agile squad to translate product strategy and business requirements into working digital solutions and customer journeys. This role involves defining functional specifications, workflows, use cases, interfaces, user stories, and acceptance criteria while gathering and translating business requirements into clear, actionable software requirements.
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Responsibilities
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog in line with the product roadmap.
- Ensure committed backlog items are completed within each sprint.
- Use technical expertise to actively contribute to sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives, and demos.
- Identify technology opportunities that support business goals.
- Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams to ensure seamless execution of digital initiatives.
- Drive squad execution and ensure progress against product roadmap commitments.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, QA, UX, Governance, Compliance, and other stakeholders.
- Support testing, release readiness, and implementation activities.
Qualifications and Skills
- 7+ years of experience in digital product, technical project delivery, business analysis, or software delivery.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience with requirements gathering, user stories, backlog management, and Azure DevOps.
- Technical experience in development or testing is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, leadership, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Collaborative, delivery-focused, and proactive, with a strong "can-do" attitude.
