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The Product Owner is a member of an Agile team responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog so as to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components the team is responsible for. In addition, the ability to build relationships, influence and be a driver of execution in a fast-paced environment is critical to this role.\nSection 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities\nCreates and maintains the Scrum Team Roadmap. \nPrioritizes and sequences the Backlog according to business value or ROI.\nConveys the Vision and Goals at the beginning of every Release and Sprint.\nRepresents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer.\nCollaborating with a Scrum team on new Feature development, requests including building and maintaining a Product backlog, contributing to/reviewing/approving user stories, sprint support, and UAT testing.\nWhere appropriate, works closely with BAs and Technology to create Behaviors Driven Development (BDD) stories. Assists with the elaboration of Epics, Themes and Features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.\nParticipates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings, Release Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.\nInspects the product progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work done. 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Experience in administering the aforementioned applications a plus.\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer\nBe aware of employment fraud. All email communications from Ascensus or its hiring managers originate from @ascensus.com or @futureplan.com email addresses. We will never ask you for payment or require you to purchase any equipment. 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