**ABOUT WIND RIVER**
Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.
Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions — such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world's first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.
The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a "Top Workplace" for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where they lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.
**ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY**
Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced high-performing Senior Product Owner for a position developing a cloud-based platform that spans across all products.
The Senior Product Owner will work and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure high levels of product quality and process effectiveness.
**Responsibilities**:
- Act as a bridge between Product Management and Engineering Agile Teams.
- Foster effective communication between stakeholders and Teams.
- Help teams execute on a shared vision.
- Be the advocate of Customer / Product Management for the Engineering team and be the advocate of Engineering team for the Product Management as part of the Agile team.
- Demonstrate accountability for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Agile Team in alignment with the broader Product Management strategy and roadmap. Involve in day-to-day activities with the team.
- Assist Product Management with investigating technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments.
- Partner with the Scrum Master and the team in creating the necessary Agile Team dashboards and information radiator to keep the work of the team always visible.
- Demonstrate the product features to the prospective clients on an as needed basis supporting Product Management.
**ABOUT YOU**
**Responsibilities**:
- Manage the Team's Team Backlog effectively.
- Develop and explicitly communicate the Product Goal and Sprint Goal for the sprint,
- Create and clearly communicate Team Backlog items for the Agile team,
- Order Team Backlog items, and ensure that the Team Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
- Team Backlog Management is expected to be performed in collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, internal stakeholders, customer representatives and Agile Team to formulate, create and clearly communicate Team Backlog items. Anticipate their needs, have a conversation, and translate them into Team Backlog collaboratively.
- Effectively breakdown the product requirements into mínimal marketable, demonstratable / testable backlog items by negotiating the acceptance criteria for features and user stories (USs) with the development team. Prioritize and order user stories (USs) and ensure work aligns with product management strategy.
- Maintain a healthy Team Backlog that exhibits DEEP (Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized) Characteristics.
- Anchor the practice of Definition of Ready.
- Represent the needs of many stakeholders including Product Management in the Team's Team Backlog.
- Practice scrum events in both spirit and letter. Provide continuous feedback to the Agile team and accept / reject the deliverables from the Agile team in alignment with the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
- Participate in the team retrospectives.
- Help and guide the Agile Teams during the Sprint Review and Demo, by providing constructive feedback.
- Use engineering tools such as Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence to create, track and manage Team Backlog items.
**Required**:
- Experience working for medium to large-scale products.
- Experience working as a part of a larger Product Management team fostering alignment.
- Experience in understanding use cases and anticipating requirements.
- Experience with writing user stories (USs) and its acceptance criteria, and guiding teams to write effective user stories (USs).
- Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
- Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and