Product Strategist

Product Owner Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Owner to join our team at Prosum. As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for working with business units to identify and prioritize AI opportunities and develop business cases to support them.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business process owners to obtain and maintain an in-depth knowledge of Mattel business processes.
• Develop business requirement and business case documents along with financial justification and ROI for all initiatives.
• Work with business to identify and understand issues, problems, and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions; use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions.
• Develop as-is to be process flows. Coordinate Organization Change Management in alignment with the to-be state.
• Develop and sustain productive customer relationships.
• Lead User Acceptance testing to ensure that the system addresses the business needs from the users' point of view.
• Manage multiple projects to coordinate all aspects of implementation and delivery of tasks necessary for successful project execution.
• Evaluate timing of software version upgrades and facilitate migrations.
• Partner with GTO Client Services, Architecture teams to ensure timely and effective break/fix and add/change services.
• Liaison between business users and a variety of GTO departments, including Network, Architecture, IT Security, Server Support, etc.
• Acting as a lead for cross-functional team implementations.
• Assist in managing 3rd-party providers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
• Experience working on software development projects, including mobile applications, AI preferred.
• Solid understanding of information architecture.
• Proven experience working in an Agile project framework like Scrum, XP, or Lean Development.
• Design thinking and workshop experience required.
• Experience in building Jira user stories, features, epics, and business cases.
• Expert at Miro, Jira, Jira Align.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 7+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst Role.
• Consulting and analytical skills.
• Ability to identify business process improvement opportunities as it relates to industry best practices and software package out of the box functionality utilization.
• Ability to analyze risks, mitigate liabilities and negotiate solutions.
• Ability to facilitate ideation sessions and business requirements sessions with a large number of users and produce pertinent business project documents and business process modeling documentation, including business requirements documents, with an emphasis on the AI enablers.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to conduct user acceptance testing, test scenario formation and communicate the results to the IT resources to drive for resolution or improvement.