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Schneider Electric USA, Inc

Product Owner, EcoCare Data Centers (Finance)

The Product Owner plays a key role in the global organization, delivering value to their customers while maintaining a clear view on customer needs and their business objectives. Product Owners represent the customer; they act autonomously to communicate the vision of the product while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders (customers / commercial / plant / internal sponsors). They partner with League Leaders to set priorities (define, own and maintain the backlog), and drive the strategic intent of the product. They create a conducive and collaborative environment through effective leadership.

The EcoCare Data Center Product Owner owns the overall system vision for their customers (Cloud & Service segment providers); the Product Owner helps determine customer services needs that will allow the customer to meet their growth ambitions and achieve their sustainability goals.

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the system level offer to fit to future customer requirements; they will do so by leveraging Schneider's innovative digital roadmap and AI capabilities.

Product Owners regularly interact with the scrum team (Agile team) and act as the voice of their customers and stakeholders.

Job's Responsibilities

Define value proposition & set offer strategies in alignment with League vision
Spend time with C&SP customers & stakeholders (specifically Data Center segment team) to identify value drivers
Understand: customer values, applications, respective market trends, and their go to market strategies
Gather and analyze customer's needs by meeting customers and collaborating regularly with business stakeholders
Evaluate, mold and drive the strategic value of the offer
Define and validate the offer value propositions (UVP, business models, go to market)
Understand technical trends to identify valuable innovations in the product environment
Lead and contribute to the customer engagement strategy
Collaborate with pricing team and the offer design leaders, ensuring offers are priced following value-based principles

Prioritize & communicate the team's backlog; then, establish release map & roadmap

Challenge and evaluate requests (from business, quality,...)
Periodically review critical quality issues and associated mitigation plans
Communicate backlog refinement
Streamline the execution of priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the product

Build the release plan and global roadmap according to technology, feasibility, budget, resources

Communicate the product roadmap to all stakeholders
Periodically review customers demo feedback to assess new needs
Periodically review with internal stakeholders (including management agreement)

Define the sprint strategy and achievement criteria. Take accountability in sharing outcomes with stakeholders:

Organize iterative deliverables for each sprint based on release objectives
Ensure team understands and refines backlog items before committing to them
Ensure sprint objectives contribute to value for customer (backlog) and product/process robustness
Define and update achievement criteria
Guide the Squad to set realistic (but ambitious) sprint objectives i.s. set and manage squad velocity

Support the Squad to deliver on sprints & act as obstacle troubleshooter--be the voice of the customer for the squad's questions

Support the squad on all obstacles (including capacity issues)
Periodic analysis of the product cost
Define the best trade-offs between all parameters (e.g. : Squad budget, schedule, product cost and business stake, quality, time to market, innovation)

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor's degree and 5 years of product development experience, or 5 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Experience working with Data Center customers
Experience presenting to customers & their leaders, and experience in saying 'No' when required
Experience in successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.
Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

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€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World's most sustainable corporations

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

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