Summary: The Product Owner role within the Tennessee Department of Education focuses on delivering IT solutions that support K-12 educational programs. The position requires collaboration with various program areas and IT Product Owners to define and manage product functionality, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. The role emphasizes Agile methodologies and relationship management to facilitate effective project delivery. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential for success in this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work across a team of IT Product Owners and with multiple program areas to build solutions for education programs.
• Own the IT solution vision for a particular product or product domain and decompose the vision into IT work.
• Establish subject matter expertise in IT solution functionalities to document acceptance criteria and functional priorities.
• Manage the product intake process of new functionality to provide business-valued solutions.
• Build strong relationships with designated program areas and serve as a trusted advisor for technology solutions.
• Foster communication with project managers and scrum masters to implement and support IT solutions efficiently.
• Champion Agile principles and facilitate the adoption of Agile methodologies within the team.
• Define product functionality needed to deliver projects from the perspective of the larger ecosystem.

Key Skills:

• Ability to influence and instruct team members in a matrixed reporting relationship.
• Strong command of Agile philosophies and principles.
• Document and maintain the IT solution vision and IT landscape of products and services.
• Facilitate product vision and requirements gathering within an Agile project framework.
• Ability to decompose solutions into manageable deliverables.
• Strong organizational, estimation, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to pivot as business needs change.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to challenge constructively.
• Ability to trace requirements to delivered functionality.
• Lead by example and work interdependently.
• Collaborate effectively within the team without a strictly defined operating structure.

Salary (Rate): 60

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT