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Randstad Product Associate in Hillsboro, Oregon
Product Associate
job details:
location:Hillsboro, OR
salary:$58 - $63 per hour
date posted:Monday, February 22, 2021
job type:Contract
industry:Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
reference:822979
job description
Product Associate
job summary:
Randstad Technologies is seeking a skilled Product Associate for a contract role in Hillsboro Oregon. If you are ready to join a leader in the Retail and Technology space, please apply and Randstad will be more than happy to assist in helping you land your next role. We look forward to speaking with you!
location: Hillsboro, Oregon
job type: Contract
salary: $58 - 63 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
The Portal team needs a strong Product Associate who will assist the Product Manager in ensuring customer needs are being met. As a Product Associate you will work closely with Product Owner and agile team members to ensure the work is clear and defined.
Responsibilities
Be a Product advocate; can describe the Product, its value, how it works, how it is adopted, speak to upcoming changes and tailor the information to the audience
Understand the Product Roadmap and use knowledge of future features to improve current stories and tests
Assist in customer adoption through personal interaction and written documentation
Identify, escalate and remove roadblocks, triage defects, and provide clarity from customers on issues where appropriate
Work directly with customers and team members to capture details of Feature requirements, understand use cases, collect samples, and find tests; apply knowledge of Product and business drivers to enhance work
Write and refine stories for clarity, business value, and acceptance criteria with guidance from Product Management
Work with Team to translate any internal "Enablers" into value driven stories
Assess, provide input and potential improvements to Product Owner on impact to business partners' current processes and their current use of the Product
Conduct feature mapping, gap analysis, data flow to help assess business implications of feature, tool, or platform
Conduct analysis to determine how features are performing, level of customer satisfaction, and provide suggestions for improvements
Highlight risks, escalate impacts and assist in analyzing possible solutions for complex issues
Conduct Product demos
Skills
In-depth understanding of the Agile principles and methodologies and how they're applied in workplace culture
Able to solve complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions
Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others
Self-directed and comfortable working in ambiguous environments
strong attention to detail and organizational skills
Excellent communication, collaboration, team dynamics, and conflict resolution
Experience working with internal and external customers
Sufficient understanding of technology systems and the ecosystem the team works in to help team in overcoming roadblocks
Proven presentation and facilitation skills
Knowledge and hands-on creation of key artifacts including use cases, user stories, user acceptance criteria, configuration stories, or specifications
Qualifications
Minimum 5 years relevant work experience with Bachelor's degree
Experience working with Agile teams
Experience working with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, VersionOne preferred
Experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, LEAN, Kanban, XP Programming etc.
qualifications:
Experience level: Experienced
Education: Bachelors
skills:
Product owner
BSA
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