Job Description
Role: Lead Product Specialist
Location: Toronto, NS Remote
Type: Contract
How We Will Help You:
- Joining our Product practice is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. Given your wide responsibilities, there will be opportunities for professional development. At NTT DATA, we pride ourselves on developing our people, whether it is by getting a certification or connecting you with helpful training so you can continue to deliver increasingly valuable work.
- Once You Are Here, You Will:
- Onboard Product teams to the new Product Operating Model
- Ensure they successfully complete the product bootcamp
- Set them up for success once they enter the coaching and adoption phase with the Product Specialist.
- Lead teams through foundational training
- Help them establish their product roadmaps, OKRs and Product Vision.
- Organization redesign
- Through validation of team composition
- Baseline team maturity
- Start of coaching, post coaching, and adoption.
- Coach teams (primarily Product Owners and Product Managers) during the Program Increment
- Guide and coach teams on epic, feature and story writing, prioritization, and the refinement of OKRs and Product Roadmaps.
- Support teams to adopt their new roles and responsibilities post boot-camp.
- Identify gaps and provide targeted coaching to enhance adoption and execution
- Use a pragmatic approach to help the team to follow the new product operating model. Understand the challenges/reasons for existing operational model and advise on making improvements to align with the new operating model (Must not present slides and force the team to follow the new process)
- Should work with the teams and earn their trust
- Provide weekly status reports on each team's progress, issues, risks, and escalations, as necessary
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in product management, product strategy, product coaching or related areas.
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in product ownership, backlog management and agile execution.
- Ability to provide hands on coaching for epic, feature and user story development and prioritization.
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SAFe Framework and lean product development.
- Ability to lead workshops, roadmap development and training exercises.
- Ability to guide teams in creating OKRs, product vision and product roadmaps.
- Ability to help teams transition into new roles and ways of working.
- Strong ability to engage with senior leadership, influence decision making and drive alignment across teams.
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies, provide feedback and improve team effectiveness.
Ideal Mindset:
- Accountable Partner. You stay on track with your goals and take the necessary actions to achieve them.
- Collaborator. You are someone who wants to see everyone on the team succeed and is willing to go the extra mile to help a teammate in need.
- Curious Mind. You ask questions, listen, observe, and have disruption tolerance.
- Honest Challenger. You understand, use, and build your competencies to navigate the workplace and contribute in a meaningful way.
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