Product Owner

Job Title

Product Owner

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:
- Acts as the primary interface between the customer and the development team, handling the management of stories and backlog for a single product/module characterized by moderate complexity, delivered by multiple scrum teams. Knows and understands the product, the customer, their needs and pain points

​- Coordinates with stakeholders across various functions within the same business unit, ensuring alignment of priorities and expectations to drive successful outcomes and meet customer needs effectively.

- Understands business goals and expectation/contribution of their product

- Maintains focus on a single, complex system/module, directing the delivery of new features or enhancements within an existing framework, ensuring adherence to quality standards and timelines.
- Facilitates iteration planning at the team level, orchestrating efforts to prioritize tasks and allocate resources optimally, fostering collaboration and synergy among team members.
- Defines clear sprint objectives for the team, establishing measurable goals and milestones to guide development efforts, track progress, and ensure alignment with broader organizational objectives.
- Contributes to defining and reviewing the program vision, roadmap, and content presentations to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and market demands.
- Participates in all scrum ceremonies with team to drive the achievement of program goals.
• Contributes efforts in defining iterations and user stories, managing dependencies, and maintaining a cohesive flow of work to support continuous value delivery.
• Cultivates effective relationships with internal/external partners and provides influence over projects and peer groups, demonstrating full understanding of area of specialization.
• Resolves a wide range of moderate complexity requests in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

- Can prioritise feature work and tech work based on business and customer value

- Can come up with and communicate a roadmap

- Knows stakeholder landscape and can advocate for the product within the organization

- Can communicate dependencies towards platform and negotiate with other propositions

- Can help the team to connect to stakeholders to align/remove blocker and dependencies

- Can drive decision making and navigate competing priorities

- Has prior experience in software design and development activities

Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.

Minimum required Experience:
Minimum 3 years of experience in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture

Minimum 3 years of experience in leading development teams and working in a setup needing interactions and collaboration with other scrum-teams

Minimum 2 years of experience in product owner role demonstrating ownership and delivery


Preferred Skills:
• Agile Methodology
• Business Acumen
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Continuous Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• Program Management
• Systems Architecture
• Stakeholder Management
• Requirements Management
• Product Development Lifecycle Management
• User Stories Creation

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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Manufactures medical imaging systems and personal care appliances.