SAFe Agile Product Owner

Immediate need for a talented SAFe Agile Product Owner. This is a 05+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Charlotte, NC/Atlanta ,GA (Hybrid). Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, operations partners, and other stakeholders to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities. Lead the writing and refining of user stories. Author and maintain the team's backlog of features and user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities. Participate in all scrum ceremonies such as Daily Stand Up, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, etc. Collaborate with Product Management to gain insights into customer needs. Understand the customer persona and deeply understand their needs and expectations. Ensure the team has a clear understanding of the vision and roadmap during PI Planning. Continually prioritize the scrum team's backlog. Accept user stories after validating the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD). Assist the team in resolving requirement-level dependencies with other teams. Actively resolve conflicting requirements and ambiguities by collaborating with Product Managers and other Product Owners. Apply systems thinking to ensure alignment with the solution roadmap. Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.