Product Owner [T500-20436]

About T-Mobile :

T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ : TMUS), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, connecting millions through its strong nationwide network and flagship brands, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile. Customers benefit from an unmatched combination of value, quality, and exceptional service experience.

About TMUS Global Solutions :

TMUS Global Solutions is a world-class technology powerhouse accelerating the company’s global digital transformation. With a culture built on growth, inclusivity, and global collaboration, the teams here drive innovation at scale, powered by bold thinking.

TMUS India Private Limited operates as TMUS Global Solutions.

About the Role :

Product Owner (PO) is a member of the extended Technical Product Management team and crucial member of the Agile Team. PO owns the Team / Sprint backlog representing the single source of truth and is the single point of contact to the Dev team and Customer team for user story details. PO is responsible for defining and refining user stories and prioritizing the Agile Team backlog to streamline execution of product (program) priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of features for the team.

In this capacity the PO remains highly available to the Dev teams during each iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories. PO also drives user story refinement activities ensuring Team backlog contains 2 iterations worth of 'ready' work for Dev team. These two functions are critical to enabling Dev teams to improve and maintain high velocity / productivity in iteration (sprint) execution. For this reason, a PO supports a single Agile (Scrum) Team up to a maximum of 2 teams.

PO also has a significant role in quality control and is the only team member empowered to accept stories as done, ensuring the acceptance criteria has been met. This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside their specific Agile team, including working with Technical Product Management, who is responsible for the Product (Program / Portfolio / Platform) Backlog, to prepare for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting (Big Room Planning).

What You will Do :

Business and Technical Execution :

Develop deep understanding of customer / user experience at a tactical and transactional level

Build and maintain Agile (Scrum / Sprint) team backlog

Write and refine user stories and requirements including acceptance criteria and tests

Review and prioritize team backlog for iteration planning

Coordinate and resolve dependencies with other Product Owners, domain POCs, UI / UX

Review and assess enabler work and collaborate with System Architects

Accept completed user stories, ensuring they meet the Definition of Done

Serve as single point of contact for technical and customer / user teams during sprints

Maintain 2 sprints of ready work via ongoing story elaboration

Participate in demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt workshops

Manage and groom testable, production-quality user stories

Support PI planning and PI system demo execution

Drive improvement stories to increase velocity and quality

Run PO sync meetings in larger scaled ARTs

Support Technical Product Manager with product vision and roadmap

Collaborate with Scrum Master to prioritize the Scrum backlog to maximize throughput of a sprint.

Create and review L3 diagrams, Swaggers, API documentation for system integrations.

Drive Low Level Design / Domain Level Design for platform features

Review Test Cases and support testing teams during domain / system and night of release

Conduct Platform Level Demos with Stakeholders

Participate and Drive, Release Activities during Night / Day of Release

Relationship & People, Professional Development :

Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and customers / users

Work collaboratively across technical and teams

Develop Platform specific training material / user manuals and educate stakeholders

Develop Agile training material and educate stakeholders

Contribute to Product Owner Community of Practice (COP) and Scrum Master Community of Practice

What You will Bring :

Bachelor's Degree (required)

4+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, System Analyst, or similar roles in Agile software development

Strong technical writing and requirements elicitation skills

Experience with Agile tools and methodologies

Experience with LucidChart, PlantUML, Visio, Jira, Confluence

Ability to clearly communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences

Experience with writing and elaborating Features and User Stories

Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making

Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO) –

preferred

Must Have Skills :

Relevant Product Management, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and System Analyst or Architecture / Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.

Nice To Have :

Experience with JSON, API Swaggers and L1 / L2 / L3 diagrams