Product Owner Data (AI & Data Science) - Temp 12 Months
GENERAL PURPOSE
As a Product Owner Data at adidas you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a data product. In collaboration with other departments, you work on continuously improving and evolving the product and ensuring maximized value and user experience in alignment with our company targets.
Defining a robust roadmap, backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading prioritization of new capabilities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.
Additionally, you will collaborate with all global key stakeholders, including Global Markets, Data & Analytics, Business Functions, and Tech, driving user engagement and satisfaction, as well as outcome for adidas.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Product strategy & delivery
- Supporting in setting up goals and measuring outcomes and value delivered at product level overall in line with company targets.
- Contribute to create vision, strategy, long-term plan, and roadmap for the product, in line with company vision and strategy.
- Contribute to Improve ways of working within the product and with stakeholders to enhance release capacity and user experience quality.
- Ensure issues resolution, addressing topics, dependencies, and risks with the relevant stakeholders.
- Drive product delivery as per committed milestones.
- Stakeholder management
- Drive product stakeholders' engagement and management.
- Act as the ambassador for your area of responsibility, showcasing the products and capabilities to markets and other strategic stakeholders.
- Product enablement & adoption
- Contribute to successful enablement, adoption, and continuous improvement of your product.
- Responsible for adoption KPI Tracking.
- Ensure the creation and maintenance of product and process documentation for areas impacted by your product.
- Backlog Management
- Responsible for creation and refinement of actionable backlog items collaboratively with stakeholders and the dev team, in alignment with product objectives.
- Prioritize product backlog items in coordination with the Product team.
- Define and create functional requirements, ensuring well defined data, data science, UI/UX, acceptance criteria and quality, adhering to the Definition of Ready.
- Participate in the agile ceremonies to provide guidance and clarifications.
- Product discovery & insights
- Analyze and monitor Product KPIs, Milestones and create an action plan accordingly.
- Support in Business Case creation for strategic business opportunities and investment at product level.
- Contribute to the investigations and research to drive product Innovation and identify key investment opportunities within the product
- Drive best practices, reusability, and optimization of product capabilities.
- Contribute to the user journey design and insights gathering for the product(s)
IF REQUIRED RESPONSIBILITIES
- People Management
- Not relevant
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
- Global Digital Teams
- Global Market Teams
- Global IT and Global Operations
- Global Data & Analytics Teams
REQUIREMENTS
- Education & Experience
- Degree in Information Science, Statistics, IT, or Business Administration, or equivalent combination of education an experience of 3-5+ years of experience working in a Digital and/or eCommerce environment
- Deep business analysis and functional skills (business and IT departments)
- Experience working with stakeholders and experts at various organizational levels
- Experience in creating strong internal business cases to support investment and internal resource requests
- Proven experience in managing global projects
- Soft-Skills
- Strong communication skills and comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
- High resilience and solution-oriented attitude
- Basic leadership skills
- Commercial and business acumen
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
- Flexible team player able to work in both a group and individual atmosphere.
- Hard-Skills
- Good Analytical and Data Visualization Skills
- Expert domain knowledge
- Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
- Expert knowledge of Agile working methods e.g. Scrum/Kanban
- Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies
- Hands on experience leveraging AI tools to prototype and build business solutions
- In-depth understanding of technology and Digital capabilities
- Fluent in English both verbally and written
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