Understands and supports prioritized Portfolio and Value Stream work by collaborating with Solution Architect, Business Architect, Product Manager and stakeholders to breakdown features into user stories. Manages the delivery of business value by owning the team backlog, defining stories, establishing story acceptance criteria and leading story refinement for preparation of iteration planning and program increment planning. Provides input and feedback to Epic Owners on new and existing epics, understands stakeholder and customer needs. Reviews and accepts user stories throughout the iteration as developed functionality is completed by the team (develop on cadence). Works with other Product Owners and the Product Manager to determine impacts and interdependencies with other teams, programs or value streams. Acts as customer advocate for team questions and seeks out opportunities to connect the team with end users, stakeholders and customers to develop and improve their understanding and empathy of end user needs. Interacts with stakeholders during iteration demos, or individually, to show the most critical aspects of a solution and negotiate the reality of systems solutions. Collaborates with Product Manager to provide input to the Program Vision and Roadmap Collaborates with Product Manager, Release Management, stakeholders, and team to define and plan for releases (Release on Demand). Participates in the iteration demo and retrospective meetings to inspect and adapt the product or solution for the next iteration and the team's process for improvements in how they work to build solution increments. Works with the team to ensure features, stories, and tasks are entered, maintained, and tracked in required Agile tooling solutions. Performs other duties as assigned. Minimum Education Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required;. Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math preferred. Minimum Experience Five (5) years experience in industry or supporting business or technology, including two (2) years demonstrated experience working as a key member of a project team (waterfall, agile, etc.) developing business processes or solutions, creating business requires and delivering business capabilities required. Experience working in an Agile environment and applying SAFe scaling preferred. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Knowledge of Agile and Lean values/concepts and scaling with Safe framework required. Systems subject matter expert technical knowledge to partner with technical leads as it relates to stories and the Agile Release Train. Uses solutions based thinking in problem solving, asking probing questions and looking for underlying issues. Software skills, including use of Microsoft Office and web-based applications. Strong influencing skills to guide a team to understand Program Features and the impact to the story and iteration deliverables. Strong influencing skills with customers and Product Managers to understand the system and iteration capabilities for deliverables. Strong verbal and written communication skills necessary to develop stories and to inform team and stakeholders. Business acumen and ability to understand the larger company strategy. Demonstrated ability to understand complex ideas, break them down into smaller, sequential plan, while understanding interdependencies to deliver solutions. To be eligible for consideration, you must APPLY and UPLOAD your resume. SAFe/Agile certification and/or PMP certification preferred. FedEx Express is absolutely, positively your best choice for a career. Are you looking for a company that provides a safe, diverse and rewarding environment where employees have opportunities to grow and succeed? 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