Onsite-  Denver ,CO
Product Owner,
3 month contract to hire

Our Client is a Fortune 200 company that continues to redefine the communications industry. Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves. We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of our Client's satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider. We are doing it again with the first live, internet-delivered TV service – that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.
Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.
We are driven by curiosity, pride, adventure, and a desire to win – it’s in our DNA. We’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Job Information:

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team and drive business engagement and product delivery across multiple development teams in the Core Technologies organization. The position entails working with multiple agile development teams, managers, business stakeholders and other IT teams to identify opportunities, product features and plan delivery roadmaps.  This role will also entail communication with executives and external Dish Partners.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Writing user stories and features (acceptance criteria)
• Perform acceptance testing for user stories and features 
• Collaborate with product analysts/developers/QA during product development through implementation
• Facilitate iteration planning sessions, daily team stand-ups, grooming sessions, and retros
• Track and report on team work completed, capacity, backlog, velocity, etc.
• Forecast product/feature delivery timelines 
• Use metrics and feedback to improve team and organization processes, best practices, performance, and delivery
• Assist with deployments and production support issues
• Planning delivery roadmaps, minimum viable product (MVP) and milestones

Skills, Experience & Requirements:

• Experience working on/with an Agile team (XP, SCRUM etc.)
• Experience working with multiple business stakeholders and planning product delivery
• Good communication (verbal, written and presentation skills)
• 2-4 years of Product Owner, Product Manager, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Project Manager or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent organizational, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills
• Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional resources and work well in a distributed environment
• Demonstrated understanding of and experience using Agile processes and methodologies
• Ability to plan for future work while maintaining the current delivery with rapidly changing priorities
• Rally / CA Agile Central experience a plus
• Technical experience in APIs, Java or JavaScript, or other programming languages a plus
• Technical experience in swagger is a plus.
• Technical experience in Relational or NoSQL Database Systems (e.g. Oracle, MySql, MongoDB) is a plus
• Strong understanding of development and delivering cloud native products as a service, virtualized deployments, containerization, DEV/OPS and CI/CD pipelines