Principal Product Owner

Job Description

The Principal Product Owner represents the voice of the customer for the vision computing platform.About Vision computing platform Our mission is to provide core capabilities in vision computing and machine learning. We want to enable unparalleled guest experience by deriving insights from structured data and unstructured content (videos, images and documents) using vision computing and machine learning platform and capabilities. The platform will provide end to end ubiquitous experience including acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding content and extraction of high-dimensional data in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, eg., in the form of decisions. Machine learning platform would enable ML developers to focus on writing efficient ML models solving business problems and train/ deploy/ manage with minimal effort.PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position provides broader strategy for vision and machine learning platform by working across a broad set of stakeholders (internal and external). Study the industry trend and applicability to Retail and define the strategy.
• Works with businesses to maximize the value of the product and communicate the product vision. Create and maintain a Product Charter and Product Vision
• Drafts key product strategies and objectives and key results (OKRs) for the product.
• Lead dual track agile to balance both Delivery and Discovery activities within your team
• Accountable for development and health of the created product, working in the product model and collaborating with key partners
• Work across multiple product and engineering teams to help problem solve, identify use cases and analyze/ validate prototypes and solutions
• Maintain and refine backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
• Value Articulation and Prioritization: Decides what business and technical stories are part of current and upcoming sprints for a product(s) and/or cross product based on value or other criteria. Accountable to achieve and deliver the value in support of the OKRs of the product(s). Leads scrum team to ensure they have the necessary context of the problems they are solving and for whom.
• Define user journeys, work with UX team for the mockups, etc
• Work in scrum team, ensuring the teams are aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all scrum meetings.
• Leverages data and analytics to drive decisions and solve problems
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization s direction
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles
• Provide guidance and mentoring to other product owners in the team
• Communication: Owns the outward communication plan of the product(s) delivery and strategy to stakeholders (written, oral, demo, other). Can demo and interact with customers and executive leaders to show product benefits and value.
• Industry and Market Strategies: Creates and uses A/B testing, or other test and learn practices, to drive product adoption. Develops and drives go to market strategies, release planning, and training. Develops product positioning and messaging including product collateral. Interacts with competitive products and evaluates industry trends to set product roadmap and poetize features based on value. Can teach/evangelize customer point of view. Develops innovative and new features with necessary business case that drives value for Target.

JOB REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 10+ years of experience with 2 years in a product role or equivalent with enterprise software products.
• Bachelor s degree and/or equivalent experience
• Strong communication skills working across multiple business and technology stakeholders
• Experience with data analytics driven products or platforms.
• Exposure to machine & deep learning concepts and their applications in retail environment.
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and tech teams
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• Strong ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Demonstrate strong accountability
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in a Technology organization
• Strong data analytics skills
• MBA or advanced degree in related field

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Keyskills :
scrum agile productmanagement marketing delivery voiceofthecustomer usecases userstories deeplearning businesscase userjourneys dataanalytics problemsolving machinelearning productstrategies enterprisesoftware btesting