Sr Product Owner

Job Summary: All of Southwest’s People come together to deliver on our Purpose; Connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. The Senior Product Owner delivers on our Purpose by serving as the Customer proxy by working with Product Management and other stakeholders, including other product owners and other Teams, to define and prioritize the Team Backlog so that the solution effectively addresses program priorities while maintaining technical integrity.

• Provide innovation and the end-to-end launch of integrated solutions/products across multiple Agile Teams
• Collaborate with Business Partners and Product Managers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment across multiple Agile Teams
• Work with senior stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria across multiple products or complex solutions
• Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
• Oversee the design, construction, and implementation of integrated solutions ensuring functionality meets business requirements
• Coach and mentor other Product Owners across multiple Agile Teams to build, refine, prioritize and maintain their Team backlogs
• Review, approve, and drive iteration content by prioritizing user stories and accept user stories as complete
• Define and prioritize solutions to complex issues and effectively communicate dependencies, risks, issues and cope for complex solutions
• Coach and mentor Product Owners and Scrum Masters in the successful delivery of Scrum ceremonies such as iteration planning, iteration reviews, and demos

• Ability to make decisions independently and demonstrate skills to support, guide, and mentor other Product Owners in the same business domain
• Ability to understand technical issues across multiple business systems and how business areas interact in order to drive toward the best solutions
• Ability to be analytical and problem solve with a high attention to detail
• Ability to show initiative by anticipating risks, issues and opportunities, and escalating them accordingly, while mentoring and coaching
• Skilled in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation across multiple stakeholders and levels in the organization
• Ability to search for opportunities, focus on business value and the Return On Investment and act proactively on possible risks and threats
• Ability to effectively manage complex tasks that are not well defined
• Ability to balance priority, risk, value, learning opportunities and dependencies and effectively uses product / Team backlog to manage them
• Ability to effectively communicate complex problems, risks, progress, or new ideas to diverse Stakeholders and influence direction
• Knowledge of industry trends and new technologies in order to provide innovative product guidance to the Business or Product Manager
• Expertise in Agile including the value and principles, and how they are applied in enterprise environments

• Fly for free on any open seat on all Southwest flights
• 401(k) with Company contributions up to 9.3%
• ProfitSharing contribution
• Competitive health insurance

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.