Job Description

PRODUCT OWNER 1-3

LOCATION: Acuna / Coahuila (MX-COA), Mexico | BRAND: Bendix | REQUISITION ID: 11220 | JOB GRADE: 16

| ON-SITE/REMOTE: On-site

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As a Product Owner, this individual is responsible for creating and maintaining a product vision and roadmap. Collaborating with customers and stakeholders, this position identifies the needs and the value the product can bring to the customer and the overall Bendix product portfolio. As part of an Agile team this individual will be responsible for clearly articulating these needs and priority to the development team. This position is expected to represent the customer and business interests through the definition and prioritization of the product backlog that provides valuable outcomes that satisfy the larger business features and solutions.

Essential Functions:

· Champion for the customer by collaborating with the Agile team to develop user stories that create value for our customers.

· Work with other Product Owners in their area to identify and plan for dependencies with other teams.

· Create, share, incorporate feedback on the Product vision and roadmap.

· Maintain a visible, transparent, clear, and data driven Product roadmap, product planning, and product backlog for new features and improvements.

· Execute the role of a Product Owner as described in the Scrum Guide.

· Work collaboratively with the Agile team to align with product vision, negotiate commitments and maximize value delivery.

· Sequence and balance trade-offs among conflicting business priorities.

· Constantly pursues incremental delivery to reduce risk and increase learning opportunities through frequent, measurable delivery of value.

· Collaborate with stakeholders during sprint reviews, or individually, to show the most critical aspects of a solution.

· Work with the development team to have ready backlog prior to each sprint.

· Foster a strong team interaction that allows people to get information on time by creating an environment where people share ideas and opinions, even when they disagree to ensure optimum solutions, activities.

· Act as customer advocate for team questions and seek out opportunities to connect the team with end users, stakeholders and customers to develop and improve their understanding and empathy of end user needs.

· Establish and maintain business cases for opportunities based on product and customer strategies.

Knowledge:

· Basic knowledge of Scrum and Agile

· Product Ownership practices such as Story mapping, Personas, Vision,

· Basic Financials

· Understanding of major functional and cross-functional business processes and related metrics. (Engineering, Operations, Financial, Marketing, and Sales)

· Understanding and utilization of business, management and people processes needed for overall success.

Experience:

· Product Owner 1:

o Prior experience negotiating tradeoffs with technical and business resources

o External and internal customer relationship building or training.

o Experience managing and prioritizing business and customer requirements

o Agile Scrum development environment experience is a plus

o Experience in the automotive or transportation industry preferred

· Product Owner 2:

o 3+ years’ experience negotiating tradeoffs with technical and business resources

o External and internal customer relationship building or training.

o Experience managing and prioritizing business and customer requirements

o Agile Scrum development environment experience is a plus

o Experience in the automotive or transportation industry preferred

o Prior experience leading and motivating teams

o Experience delivering products into the marketplace

· Product Owner 3:

o 7+ years’ experience negotiating tradeoffs with technical and business resources

o External and internal customer relationship building or training.

o 7+ years’ experience managing and prioritizing business and customer requirements

o Agile Scrum development environment experience is a plus

o Experience in the automotive or transportation industry preferred

o 7+ years’ experience leading and motivating teams

o 5+ years’ experience working with a cross-functional team delivering complex products into the marketplace

Skills:

· Business acumen and ability to understand the larger company strategy

· Ability to listen to, understand and articulate customer needs

· Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and within and between teams.

· Strong verbal and written communication skills; capable of formal and informal discussions; has professional presence.

· Ability to inspire and build teams around a vision.

· Ability to take appropriate risks to enable learning and to gain a competitive advantage.

· Demonstrated ability to understand complex problems and needs and break them down into smaller hypotheses and experiments.

· Ability to facilitate the alignment of differing priorities and viewpoints into a prioritized list.

· Ability to articulate the reasons for a direction or decision to a diverse group of stakeholders.

Education:

· Four-year technical, marketing, or business degree preferred

· Agile training and certification preferred

Position Requirements:

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What does Bendix have to offer you?
- Work-life balance that includes Paid Vacation & Holiday Paid Time Off
- Vacation Premium
- Major medical expenses
- Christmas Bonus
- Life insurance
- Educational assistance program
- Wellness program
- Saving Fund
- Pantry Vouchers
- Personal Days Paid
- Permits paid for: Marriage or Death of a direct relative
- Attendance Bonuses
- Cafeteria Subsidy
- Subsidy for prescription glasses
- Medical service in plant
- Recognition Programs
- Gym