**ABOUT WIND RIVER**Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions — such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers — and in recent 5G milestones — including the world's first successful 5G data session with Verizon and in building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a "Top Workplace" for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where they lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.**About the opportunity**Wind River Systems is seeking an experienced Product Owner. As a member of the Agile Team who is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team and ensuring that the Product Backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs. As part of the Engineering organization embedded within the development team but also functioning as an extension of the Product Management team, the Product Owner is the team's primary customer advocate and primary link to Product Management and Technology strategy enabling the team to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders while continuously evolving the product.You will join a highly skilled engineering team delivering internal and external products and technologies across a complete DevSecOps platform, pioneering many new industry-leading capabilities.**Responsibilities**- Demonstrate accountability for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Agile Team in alignment with the broader Product Management strategy and roadmap. Involved in day-to-day activities with the team.- Manage the Product Backlog effectively, which includes and not limited to developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal and Sprint Goal for the sprint, creating, and clearly communicating Product Backlog items for the Agile team, ordering Product Backlog items, and ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.- Product Backlog Management is expected to be performed in collaboration with Product Managers, Architects, internal stakeholders, customer representatives and Agile Team to formulate, create and clearly communicate Product Backlog items. Anticipate their needs, have a conversation, and translate them into product backlog collaboratively.- Effectively breakdown the product requirements into mínimal marketable, demonstratable / testable backlog items by negotiating the acceptance criteria with the development team. Prioritize and order user stories and ensure work aligns with product strategy.- Maintain a healthy product backlog that exhibits DEEP (Detailed appropriately, Estimated, Emergent, and Prioritized) characteristics. Anchor the practice of Definition of Ready.- Represent the needs of many stakeholders including Product Management and Business in the Product Backlog.- Act as a bridge between Product Management, Business and Engineering Agile Teams. Remove barriers between stakeholders and Teams. Help teams execute on a shared vision.- Practice scrum events in both spirit and letter. Provide continuous feedback to the Agile team and accept / reject the deliverables from the Agile team in alignment with the acceptance criteria and Definition of Done. Participate in the team retrospectives.- Help and guide the Agile Teams during the Sprint Review and Demo. Provide constructive feedback.- Be the advocate of Customer / Product Management for the Engineering teams and be the advocate of Engineering teams for the Product Management as part of the Agile team.- Use engineering tools such as Jira-Align, Jira and Confluence to create, track and manage Product Backlog items.- Help the Agile Team and the broader organization achieve at a sustainable healthy pace indefinitely.- Investigate new technologies and techniques and research ongoing industry developments.- Partner with the Scrum Master and the team in creating the necessary Agile Team dashboards and information radiator to keep the work of the team always visible.- Demonstrate the product features to the prospect
