Location: Atlanta (Hybrid Working Mode)

Duration: 12+ months

Qualifications:

• Scrum Master or Product Owner certification
• Has some experience as a product owner or has worked closely with product owners
• Experience with Content Management Systems

Required:

• Extensive experience working in scrum/kanban environment
• Extensive experience defining agile requirements (Epics/stories), including functional and technical in a product/services organization
• Understanding and usage of agile metrics (velocity, burn downs) and help the team be more productive
• Experience with root cause analysis and digging into different sources of information (console errors, etc) to understand issue causes and identifying preventative steps and resolutions.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to partner with business stakeholders to prioritize backlog as necessary
• Creative thinker paired with great attention to details

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product Owner and ensure: Release and Sprint backlogs are always prioritized for the Scrum Team to deliver sprint to sprint.
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared stories to work on
• Translate Product Owner / Product Manager visions into meaningful Epics and Stories so that the scrum team can incrementally deliver.
• Assist Product Owner with prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Assist Product Owner with backlog management, iteration planning, and grooming of the user stories
• Work closely with Product Owner and Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Ability to write necessary stories to deliver functionality, such as user interaction stories, or system integration stories or API level stories.
• Willingness and aptitude to identify technical requirements and translate to adequate technical stories (eg: API creation, integrations, code refactoring, etc).
• Lead story grooming sessions or requirements clarifications sessions.
• Partner with UX to ensure capturing UX requirements and needs into stories.
• Leading root cause analysis of production issues and identifying resolution and preventative steps.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends