FBS Product Owner III, Guidewire

About the Role

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group €22.5 billion in revenues in 2023.

Key Responsibilities

• Take a fully independent lead in several areas of product development by following the principles of Agile.
• Manage the team backlog, anticipate and prioritize needs, oversee development stages, act as a primary liaison, and evaluate product progress.
• Serve as the customer proxy; work collaboratively with business owners and other stakeholders to accomplish tasks with little to no support, managing a high volume of work and increased complexity.
• Utilize a strong understanding of the business vision to regularly contribute and manage execution.
• Heavily influence business owner requirements and the Product Manager's program vision and roadmap.
• Introduce new and useful tools and practices to drive continuous improvement.
• Provide overall leadership to the Product Owner team through mentorship and guidance.
• Provide back up to the Product Manager, as needed.
• Apply basic scientific practice within iterations to routinely plan, do, check, and adjust.
• Prioritize backlog items based on business value.
• Outline dependencies and inform stakeholders of the necessary sequence of development to ensure optimized performance and outcomes.
• Hold a significant role in quality control and be the primary team member empowered to accept stories as done.
• Utilize advanced business knowledge and communication skills to anticipate and address problems.
• Work cross-functionally in a self-organizing manner to accomplish tasks and effectively manage the backlog.
• Lead processes and procedure changes identified by teams by working with external business partners.
• Effectively apply critical thinking to identify flexibility in determining how and when each iteration and product element will be developed.
• Act as primary communicator and connection between stakeholders, end users, and teams, determining if each story meets their shared expectations.
• Ensure collaboration from all stakeholders on decisions and strategy, providing clear instructions and deliverables for developers.
• Take ownership for each stage of the process and final product to ensure the goal and vision are correctly aligned with backlog work items.
• Contribute strategic input into program backlog prioritization, coordinate dependencies, and manage the inspection and evaluation of product progress through each iteration.
• Drive the mitigation of program risks.
• Lead PO and/or ART sync meetings, in addition to the system demo, to show critical aspects of the solution.
• Lead in Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshops to work across teams to define and implement improvement stories to increase program quality.
• Define iteration goals and drive execution and delivery.
• Partner with the business owner to understand needs, manage scope, and add/eliminate user stories, while contributing heavy influence to build an effective strategy.
• Communicate requirements to the Agile Team in a clear and collaborative manner to determine new requirements, negotiate teams, and dependencies.
• Regularly interact closely with the Product Manager to discuss goals and vision of the business/value stream, sharing extensive knowledge to make sound decisions.
• Be heavily involved in Program Increment (PI) planning, story definition, and assist the team with story estimates and sequencing.
• Oversee the development of the product, including planning, refinement, review, and execution.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify and organize steps required for the next iteration.
• Work to gain clarity on queries and participate in the demo of committed items.
• Participate in ceremonies within the team to coordinate efforts, refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support task execution.
• Continuously keep end-user needs in mind, based on a higher level of business acumen, to ensure the solution meets expectations and development delivers expected outcomes from accepted stories.
• Independently represent business owners' interests and prioritize user stories based on business value while maximizing agile team capacity.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to PO I and II.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Agile principles
• Guidewire (implied by Job Title)

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the business vision.
• Advanced business knowledge, based on prior experience within business function.
• Communication skills.
• Critical thinking.
• Higher level of business acumen.
• Experience within business function.