[Hiring] Senior Product Owner - Governance Technology Enablement @The TJX Companies, Inc.

Role Description

The Senior Product Owner on the GTE team is responsible for maintaining the product backlog.

• Must have ServiceNow platform and Integrated Risk Management (IRM) knowledge that guides, informs, and provides insight on product enhancements, maintenance, and efficiencies.
• Partners with the Product Manager to understand priorities and features; ensures the team’s backlog aligns to the roadmap.
• Ensures that user stories are clear and concise with well-defined acceptance criteria and collaborates with stakeholders and scrum team to ensure stories are in a ready state.
• Owns the backlog of user stories including user story creation, refinement, and prioritization.
• Attends and actively participates in all team Agile ceremonies.
• Stakeholder management; accountable for scope trade-offs and timeline impacts.
• Handles Stakeholder management; interacting with 8-10 stakeholders with varied levels of technical knowledge.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of the technical environment of ServiceNow.
• Responsible for accepting User Stories as meeting acceptance criteria during every sprint.
• Performs acceptance testing at story level and feature level.
• Writes UAT test scripts.
• Assists in release planning and supporting processes.
• Embraces Agile principles and applies a Lean Agile mindset.
• Ensures team risks and dependencies are identified and managed.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills like analytical, problem solving, open-mindedness, and creativity.
• Responsible for following team process and leveraging tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
• This role can be Fully Remote, aligned to EST working hours required, work within a distributed team environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of experience as Product Owner.
• Bachelor’s degree or similar work experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Agile principles and frameworks, Scrum or Kanban teams.
• Working knowledge of the technical environment of ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management.
• Communication and interpersonal skills; both verbal and written.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to support a collaborative environment with scrum team and wide stakeholder group.
• Critical thinking skills like analytical, problem solving, and open-minded curiosity.
• Experience with product backlog management tools; Jira Cloud preferred.

Requirements

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset with a focus on stakeholder management and Product knowledge.
• Must have a strong sense of ownership to proactively identify opportunities for improvement and take initiative to act on them.

Benefits

• Associate discount.
• 401(k) match.
• Medical/dental/vision.
• HSA; health care FSA.
• Life insurance.
• Short/long-term disability.
• Paid holidays/vacation/sick/bereavement/parental leave.
• EAP; incentive programs for management.
• Auto/home insurance discounts.
• Tuition reimbursement; scholarship program.
• Adoption/surrogacy assistance.
• Smoking cessation; child care/cell phone discounts.
• Pet/legal insurance; credit union; referral bonuses.