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Contract / Contract to hire

Product Owner Sr (Fuels Team)

The Fuels Engineering team supports the Wholesale and Retail Fuels teams for Pricing, Ordering, Fleet, Accounting, and Supply. The Engineering team supports both custom applications and third-party SAAS applications including a third-party pricing tool, Salesforce, and a Customer Portal for our Wholesale team. For our custom applications, we are using Spring Boot Java for API and Microservices development to provide services for our Fuel Pricing and Wholesale Teams, so they can push fuel prices from our Store Support Center to the Price Sign at the store in near real-time and send daily price notifications to customers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

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  Identifying and filling product area gaps and generating new ideas that align business objectives to improve the customer experience and drive growth
• Collaborating with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Define, articulate, and executes the product vision and roadmap
• Build the product roadmaps based on the business priorities and technical needs
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria
• Developing and prioritizing user stories and creating product plans using Jira
• Documenting processes in LucidChart
• Managing the product backlog and prioritizing Features, Epics and Stories based on changing requirements
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders
• Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies such as daily standup, retrospectives, team demos and document business release notes
• Coordinate the solutions around these platforms with internal and external partners
• Working closely with experienced engineers or business stakeholders to drive product delivery
• Keeping the team focused and excited to continually make 7-Eleven as a business more efficient by connecting the work they do to our larger mission
• Building alignment/awareness across product/engineering teams, leadership teams, and other stakeholders across the organization

“MUST HAVE” SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

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  Minimum 5+ years of Product Management / Product Ownership experience required in technology – experience in the fuels environment is preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving competencies with the ability to synthesize information, apply critical thought, and present the information in a clear and meaningful way
• Ability to define, measure and analyze processes to identify improvement opportunities
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum Framework and product development principles
• Ability to build relationships cross-functionally with multiple teams from other product areas
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• Must be able to demonstrate Product Management / Product Ownership skill set with past experiences with previous projects
• Primarily able to operate independently, with minimal supervision/direction, to take business ask, clarify details necessary with the development team.
• The candidate should be self-driven, proactive (someone that can take an initiative and drive to get tasks and does not need daily directions) and should act with urgency

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS

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  Jira
• Confluence

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 7+Years

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES: Agile, SAFe Agile, Product Management