Sr. Product Owner

Job Summary

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Product Owner Hotel Operations Guest Service Products is responsible for managing innovative and emerging products within the Hotel Operations and Guest Service Products Team. This role will collaborate with business partners and engineering teams to maintain a well-groomed product backlog of feature enhancements that includes refined user stories ready for development and solid timelines.

The Senior Product Owner will demonstrate management skills and leadership in a highly matrixed environment and must be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders on numerous competing priorities. The candidate will be moderately technical with a proven record of creative solutioning and problem solving in addition to developing multi-year technology roadmaps for products.

location: Bethesda, Maryland

job type: Contract

salary: $50 - 70 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES:

Technical Product Owner

• Maintain a well-groomed product backlog of features to include refined user stories that are ready for development
• Help define new product features and optimizations of existing ones, and incorporate them into product roadmaps
• Support the definition of guest service product requirements and development of the product roadmap
• Provide clear vision and scope documentation, use cases, workflows, and wire-frames to support development
• Coordinate testing, acceptance and delivery of enhancements between vendor and MI business partners
• Coordinate with support teams for defect resolution
  
  

Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge

• Provides technical expertise and support to persons inside and outside of the department
• Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes
• Demonstrates knowledge of function-specific procedures
• Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job
• Knowledge of and understanding of complex algorithms
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Proven ability to lead and work with cross-functional teams in support of specific business priorities
• Ability to solve problems quickly, think strategically, and drive data-driven decision making
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and aggressive timelines
• Strong interpersonal skills and success in cross-functional relationship-building at all levels, ability to drive consensus through influence and fact-based approach
• Effective written and oral communications skills with sensitivity to global communication needs
• Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrates self-confidence, energy and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams
• Proficiency in Office software products and digital collaboration tools
  
  

Management Competencies

• Adaptability - Maintains performance level under pressure or when experiencing changes or challenges in the workplace.
• Communication - Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging manner through a variety of methods
• Problem Solving and Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; obtains and compares information from different sources to draw conclusions, develops and evaluates alternatives and solutions, solves problems, and chooses a course of action.
• Professional Demeanor - Exhibits behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents the company in alignment with its values.
• Strategy Development - Develops business plans by exploring and systematically evaluating opportunities with the greatest potential for producing positive results; ensures successful preparation and execution of business plans through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
• Managing Execution
• Building and Contributing to Teams - Participates as a member of a team to move toward the completion of common goals while fostering cohesion and collaboration among team members.
• Strategy Execution - Ensures successful execution across of business plans designed to maximize customer satisfaction, profitability, and market share through effective planning, organizing, and on-going evaluation processes.
• Driving for Results - Sets high standards of performance for self and/or others; assumes responsibility for work objectives; initiates, focuses, and monitors the efforts of self and/or others toward the accomplishment goals; proactively takes action and goes beyond what is required.
• Planning and Organizing - Gathers information and resources required to set a plan of action for self and/or others; prioritizes and arranges work requirements to accomplish goals and ensure work is completed.
• Global Mindset - Supports employees and business partners with diverse styles, abilities, motivations, and/or cultural perspectives; utilizes differences to drive innovation, engagement and enhance business results; and ensures employees are given the opportunity to contribute to their full potential.
• Organizational Capability - Evaluates and adapts the structure of assignments and work processes to best fit the needs and/or support the goals of an organizational unit
  
  

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• 7 years' experience in IT application design or development
• 4 years' experience as a product owner or product manager experience
• Ability to explain product vision, business objective, technical feasibility, define requirements
• Ability to drive engineering accountability for technical implementation against defined features and requirements
• Excellent communicator, both written and spoken
• Experience with Agile Development methodology and tools (CSPO or CSM certification a plus)
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence and SmartSheets
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions, particularly when faced with complexity, ambiguity, and aggressive timelines
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate courses of action
• Strong project management skills (PMI certification a plus)
• Strong process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem-resolution skills
  
  

skills: PREFERRED:

• Familiarity with hospitality industry applications and processes
• Ability to manage and work with on-shore and off-shore service providers
• Familiarity with Marriott's existing information architecture, application portfolio, and information management methodology
• Graduate degree
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.