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Work Where You Matter: At Dollar General, our mission is Serving Others! We value each and every one of our employees. Whether you are looking to launch a new career in one of our many convenient Store locations, Distribution Centers, Store Support Center or with our Private Fleet Team, we are proud to provide a wide range of career opportunities. We are not just a retail company; we are a company that values the unique strengths and perspectives that each individual brings. Your difference truly makes a difference at Dollar General. How would you like to Serve? Join the Dollar General Journey and see how your career can thrive. Company Overview:
Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day.® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations. Dollar General operates more than 18,000 stores in 47 states, and we're still growing. Learn more about Dollar General at www.dollargeneral.com.
The Senior Product Owner serves {functional area} as the voice of the customer to guide development teams in building software capabilities with the highest business and customer impact. They have a mastery in PO practices as well as the applications they support, and actively investigate and train others in ways to improve practices at DG. The Senior Product Owner anticipates or sees gaps in other teams and offers assistance until those gaps can be filled. They represent business needs and priorities, prioritize and manage the product backlog, recommend developers for backlog items based on knowledge of the developer's experience, and incorporate feedback from business stakeholders to guide continuous product improvement. The Senior Product Owner is accountable for the delivery of business outcomes for multiple high, or one or more products of the greatest complexity.
Job Details:Duties and Responsibilities:
•Authors Agile stories and performs backlog prioritization 55%
• Meets with stakeholders to gain clarity on business needs 25%
• Participates in Scrum ceremonies 5%
• Stay current and familiar with marketplace, make build vs. buy decisions for the domain 5%
• Collaborates to ensure product vision remains appropriate and applicable to DG's strategic direction 5%
• Document and educate on Agile methodologies and promote adoption across department(s) 5%
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Develops metrics to measure customer satisfaction and bug-free implementation
• Educates and coaches teams on Agile methodologies to promote adoption across departments
• Determines dependencies on other teams
• Servant-Leader for multiple cross functional teams with a portfolio of products
• Develops Use Cases and authors agile stories while prioritizing the highest impact work for the team and stakeholders
• Accepts high-level objectives and works with stakeholders to convert business needs into product requirements
• Manages a variety of viewpoints to build stakeholder consensus
• Refine the backlog to enforce Sprint/story durations
• Develops and communicates product vision, strategy and related roadmap for the product
• Leads sprint review meetings and analyzes feedback to identify and understand product needs
• Primary technical contact for the engineering team
• Sets expectations with business stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities
• Responsible for Release Planning and accountable for overall product delivery and speed to market
• Understands how features are performing, the level of customer satisfaction, and provides suggestions for improvements
• Ensures flow of work by maintaining at least two future Sprints in the backlog
Work Experience &/or Education:
• 7+ years of relevant experience in IT, Retail technology
• 7+ years of software delivery experience related to {functional area} to include {main application, e.g. WMS}
• 5+ years in diverse roles and increasing responsibilities across business and IT CSPO roles desirable
• 5+ years working in or with Agile software delivery teams using tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• 5+ years experience working with {vendor's} {primary application} preferred
• Applicable Product Owner certifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner Certification)
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or other technical discipline or equivalent experience
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