The TJX Companies, Inc.

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Senior Product Owner - Global Finance Technology As a Senior Product Owner leading one of our Global Finance Technology scrum teams, you will be working with our global business partners to understand the customer pain points, needs, and workflows to define requirements that add business value. Your epics, features, and stories will ensure that the scrum team is enabled to configure, build, and enhance our solutions with high quality. You will lead sprint planning to ensure the team commitments are achievable, the business requirements are met, and the team in performing optimally. Communication and collaboration are key to this role, and you will be working closely with business partners and other IT teams on a weekly basis. You will prioritize the scrum team’s backlog, manage stakeholder expectations, work with the team to prepare and present the sprint review/demo, prepare user stories, document “as-is” and “to-be” states, lead spring planning, actively participate in scrum ceremonies, and work across teams as needed. You will be a voice-of-the-customer in everything you are do, maximizing the value that you deliver for your end-users. Key Responsibilities • Responsible for defining team product backlog of user stories/features, including backlog prioritization, refinement, and creating of acceptance criteria (incl. Definition of Done) • Partner with the Product Manager to understand customer needs, pain points, workflows, priorities, etc. to translate those into PI features that drive the program increment objectives • Drives iteration goals and content via prioritized user stories • Expresses product/domain knowledge that guides, informs, and provides insight on what product enhancements, maintenance, and efficiencies are needed • Product decision maker including functional and NFRs; accepts users stories and iteration increments • Partner with Product Manager on impact analysis for optimal product delivery, customer/industry trends, etc. • Contributes to the vision, roadmap, and ROI • Voice-of-the-customer for teams, including being the liaison between the business and the team • Ensure risk and dependencies are identified and managed • Responsible for consultative partnering and stakeholder management • Uses metrics to assess team progress and areas for improvement • Prepares and presents the system demo; participates in release train ceremonies • Solicits feedback from customers and the team for possible inclusion in future activities • Enables the team to be empowered and self-regulated, by educating the team on functional knowledge required to execute on sprint and PI goals What You’ll Need (Minimum Qualifications) • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent engineering skillset, training, or functional work experience • 3+ years of experience as a product owner • Proven success working a highly collaborative, matrix environment, with a track record of measurable business impact • Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and mentorship skills • Practiced consultative partnership with customers, with the ability to translate functional needs into requirements that drive value • Hands on experience participating in and leading SAFe events, such as sprint planning, release planning, and PI planning • Strong working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks Preferred Qualifications • Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM) preferred • Knowledge of Oracle EBS, Vertex, ReconNet, C2FO, Kyriba, OneStream, IBM Planning Analytics, Lucernex, or other key financial applications • SaaS application experience • Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Aha, VSTS, or similar This position has a starting salary range of $91,200.00 to $118,600.00 per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive.