We are seeking a full-time IT Product Owner in our Olathe, KS location. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the functionality of a system or service, maximizing the value it provides to its customers and stakeholders and owning the vision for the product/guiding the team in executing on this vision, including ideation, prioritizing product features and functionality, and monitoring the usage, value, and effectiveness of the product.
Essential Functions
Serve as a liaison between the development team and Global stakeholders to build a viable product, maximizing return on investment of the squad
Define strategy/vision for product by collaborating with multiple business/technology stakeholders, and harnessing external market information, business process knowledge, and value analysis and define/drive initiatives that deliver on this vision
Maintain/manage a prioritized product backlog, accept the work of a squad, and lead the planning of work to accomplish results including participating in product releases/setting expectations of deliverables/timeframes
May manage projects requiring coordination cross-functionally and/or cross-departmentally
Understand and advocate for global customers and stakeholders
Gather, document, and effectively communicate user stories, which describe the product from the user's perspective for medium to large size projects of medium complexity for products across multiple strategic channels, with multiple stakeholders
Collaborate with both functional/technical architect to assess level of effort on projects, enhancements, fixes
Evaluate product effectiveness/suitability and market the value of the product internally to IT/the business
Maintain and run the product successfully (ex. incidents, performance, etc.), participate in an On-Call rotation, and look for opportunities to standardize globally
Assist in evaluating squad health, function, and capacity
Communicate at all levels including Executive level (ex. project status/health, risks, achievements etc.
Work closely with cross-functional project teams/multiple enterprise stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and deliverables are aligned with long-term, enterprise objectives as well as project objectives
Understand/communicate business impact of issues and how they relate to IT owned solutions
Identify interdependencies between projects, squads, and overall business strategies and participate in alignment on priorities/timelines for overall benefit of Garmin being aligned with Executive Systems Review prioritization
Collaborate directly with co-located and remote development team members and business clients
Actively and constructively contribute to high pressure situations
Demonstrate quality and effectiveness in documenting work in organized manner in accordance with Garmin/IT standards and provides reliable solutions to problems including evaluation of new technologies to improve existing functions
Actively implement continuous improvement for a given stakeholder set for business processes/IT business analysis processes and actively participate in Garmin's Product Owner community
Produce Reporting metrics for applications and define/monitor performance goals
Demonstrate a proficient, in-depth understanding of the technologies utilized by the product(s)/portfolio and advocate for regulatory compliances for owned applications
Seen as the go-to subject matter expert for application/technology solution and related business processes within the squad and given stakeholder set
Demonstrate responsibility for ongoing personal development, professional growth and continuing education
Demonstrate broad understanding of one or more of Garmin's business functions (ex. Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales & Marketing)
Serve as a mentor to less experienced Business Analysts and POs
Understand the importance of change and consistently supports change as an opportunity
Manage development and documentation of requirements from global Stakeholders using use cases and scenarios
Collaborate with other squad members which may include other analysts, QA developers, and business to define test cases and assist with testing efforts
Manage acceptance testing by end users to ensure appropriate standards are met and successful deployment validation is completed
Work with Business Stakeholders and if necessary, language services, to ensure translations are correct
Participate in continuing business analysis and Product Owner education courses
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR Master's Degree in one of the fields noted above AND a minimum of 3 years relevant experience
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Demonstrates mastery of business analysis principles and methodologies and ability to apply and adapt them into requirements which meet business needs
Demonstrates facilitation and leadership expertise
Demonstrates superior analytical skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
Experience working on Agile/Scrum project team
Demonstrates strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in a cross-functional setting with business partners
Demonstrates ability to work independently with a high degree of competency
Desired Qualifications
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Certifications: PMI-PBA, CBAP, Scrum Master
Experience with Jira
Understanding of compliance and security concepts
Knowledge of basic application architecture concepts
Experience with usability, user training, and user change management
Experience collaborating across a decentralized, global team
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
