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ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Avaya is seeking a highly motivated and thorough individual to join as a product owner (aka Agile / Scrum Lead). As a Scrum Product Owner in professional services you will be part of a cross-functional Agile team of software architects, business analysts, and software engineers.  Role is NAR remote with some travel as required to customer or office premises.  5+ years of proven industry sales experience required along with 2-4-years of experience of product ownership responsibilities and/or experience in gathering requirements for the development of web applications. 

 

• Work with internal and external customers to gather product requirements, analyze business needs and align product roadmaps to strategic goals. 
• Show flexibility to respond to the changing needs of the business. 
• Define scrum backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the Scrum development team towards successful product delivery. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product. 
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation. 
• Develop detailed specifications for product features and clearly communicate those features so they are understood by the development teams. 
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to ensure scrum teams questions are answered and user story acceptance criteria is precise and clear. 
• Assess value, develop business cases, prioritize user stories, epics and themes to ensure product work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with the business’ strategic goals. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders

ABOUT YOU

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across functions, and interact, influence, and negotiate effectively with various levels of management and peers.
• Proven ability to take a data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to improve value delivered.
• An intrinsic leader within the Scrum team
• Proven Sales experience, Vertical knowledge a plus
• Self-sufficient with the ability to navigate a large organization, work with cross-functional teams and share information with other product owners and scrum teams. 
• Contact Center Knowledge and Architecture Design
• Knowledge of Agile /Scrum development background
• Strong Avaya UC/CC experience at solution level spanning multiple Avaya products.
• Strong presenter of documentation 
• Advanced knowledge of computer applications, with a strong understanding of web software design and development, preferably utilizing Agile/Scrum techniques. 
• Working knowledge of relational databases. 
• Ability to write clear precise Scrum user stories for scrum teams. Proficient in Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Experience with market leading public Cloud solutions (AWS, Google, Azure) is a plus.
• Working in a fast-paced global organization, ability to collaborate with remote teams is a must.
• Strong Communicator and Client relationship Engagement

 

COMPENSATION

The pay range for this opportunity is from $110,580 to $138,240 + target sales incentive + benefits

This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. Actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and location.

 

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