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

• Takes a fully independent lead in several areas of product development following Agile principles to manage the team backlog, anticipate and prioritize needs, oversee development stages, act as a primary liaison, and evaluate product progress.
• Serves as the customer proxy; works collaboratively with business owners and other stakeholders to accomplish tasks with little to no support, handling a high volume of work and increased complexity.
• Utilizes strong understanding of the business vision to regularly contribute and manage execution.
• Heavily influences the business owner's requirements and the Product Manager's program vision and roadmap while introducing new and useful tools and practices to drive continuous improvement.
• Provides overall leadership to the Product Owner team through mentorship and guidance.
• Provides back up to the Product Manager, as needed.
• Applies basic scientific practice within iterations to routinely plan, do, check, and adjust.
• Manages team backlog items and prioritizes based on business value.
• Outlines dependencies and informs stakeholders of the necessary sequence of development to ensure optimized performance and outcomes.
• Holds a significant role in quality control and is the primary team member empowered to accept stories as done.
• Utilizes advanced business knowledge, based on prior experience within the business function, and communication skills to anticipate and address problems.
• Works cross-functionally in a self-organizing manner to accomplish tasks and effectively manage the backlog.
• Leads processes and procedure changes identified by teams by working with external business partners.
• Effectively applies critical thinking to identify flexibility in determining how and when each iteration and product element will be developed.
• Acts as primary communicator and connection between stakeholders, end users, and teams, determining if each story meets their shared expectations.
• Ensures collaboration from all stakeholders on decisions and strategy, providing clear instructions and deliverables for developers.
• Takes ownership for each stage of the process and final product to ensure the goal and vision are correctly aligned with the work items on the backlog.
• Contributes strategic input into the prioritization of the program backlog, coordinates dependencies, and manages the inspection and evaluation of product progress through each iteration.
• Drives the mitigation of program risks.
• Leads PO and/or ART sync meetings in addition to the system demo to show critical aspects of the solution.
• Leads in Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshop to work across teams to define and implement improvement stories to increase program quality.
• A key member of the Agile team who utilizes perspective to define iteration goals and drives execution and delivery.
• Partners with the business owner to understand needs, manage scope, and add/eliminate user stories while contributing heavy influence to build an effective strategy.
• Communicates requirements to the Agile Team in a clear and collaborative manner to determine new requirements, negotiate teams, and dependencies.
• Regularly interacts closely with the Product Manager to discuss goals and vision of the business/value stream, sharing extensive knowledge to make sound decisions.
• Heavily involved in the Program Increment (PI) planning, story definition, and assists the team with story estimates and sequencing.
• Oversees the development of the product to include planning, refinement, review, and execution.
• Partners with stakeholders to identify and organize steps required for the next iteration.
• Works to gain clarity on queries and participates in the demo of committed items.
• Participates in ceremonies within the team to coordinate efforts with the team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support the execution of tasks.
• Continuously keeps end-user needs in mind based on a higher level of business acumen to ensure the solution meets expectations and the development delivers expected outcomes from the accepted stories.
• Independently represents business owners' interests and prioritizes user stories based on business value while maximizing agile team's capacity.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to PO I and II.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Guidewire
• Agile principles
• Product development
• Agile Team
• PO and/or ART sync meetings
• Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshop
• Program Increment (PI) planning

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the business vision.
• Advanced business knowledge, based on prior experience within business function.
• Effective communication skills.
• Critical thinking.
• Ability to mentor and guide.