A Client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring a Product Owner
Position type: Full-time - Contract
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Newport News VA 23607 (Hybrid)
As a Product Owner, you will:
Responsible for the success of the product by maximizing the output of the development team within a scrum framework.
Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs.
Lead collaboration, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable requirements. Work closely with business stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to understand, analyze, refine, prioritize, and communicate needs to ensure full understanding of project scope, objectives, and requirements.
Develop and adapt the product vision, writing new user stories, and specify acceptance of each user story.
Bring members of the User Community together to share knowledge, identify enhancements, manage toolset or training improvements, discuss issues, and drive toward process standardization.
Ensure the health and quality of specific processes and resulting products across the value stream.
Education:
5 Years with Bachelor of Science degree in related field; 3 years of relevant professional experience with a master's degree; 0 years with a PhD
Required:
Facilitating communication between team members and stakeholders.
Analyzing incoming service requests from customers and determining the priority and complexity of the requests
Reviewing the requests, clarifying any vague areas with the customers, and then deciding which Kanban board the request cards should be placed
Monitoring the flow of requests through the Kanban boards and ensuring service level agreements are met
Working to smooth workflow and removing any blockers
Prioritizing the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and risk
Ensuring that the team has a clear understanding of the work items and their respective priorities
Maintains a ready feature backlog
Provides oversight and acts as an escalation point
Orchestrates work across Kanban team
Full breakdown of project key activities and PBI assignment to delivery teams.
Understand and speak to the metrics for the service level and what they mean.
Understand how to make meaningful decisions based on service level metrics.
Manage service roadmap for 24 to 36 months
Must have:
Team player- ability to work across teams and with others
Communications- Clearly explain status of efforts
Project management - These skills would be a plus for managing efforts
Organizational skills - Needs to have strong organizational skills to juggle multiple efforts.
Kanban- Knowledge of Kanban or agile
Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines. ASK ME HOW.
Thank you!
Gulshan
(210) 461-5268 Gulshan@innovasolutions.com
PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: $45 - $53 per hour.
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.
Recent Recognitions:
Named One of America's Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024
Named One of the Best Companies to Work for by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications
Website: https://www.innovasolutions.com/
Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at or (770) 493-5588. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. ยง 1324b.
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