Product Coach

Company Overview:

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Product Coach to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Job Description:

How You'll Help Us:

As Product Coach you will be responsible for managing the product throughout the product life cycle from planning to execution in support of organizational strategy and objectives. You will collaborate with our clients, business stakeholders, Partners, UX, Engineering and IT teams to define product features, set priorities and lead launches.

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.

Once You Are Here, You Will:

• Build business cases on-site with our clients to prioritize valuable problems to solve and hypothesized Epics and Features through market research, client research, and competitive analysis.

• Manage and align an objectives-based product roadmap with clients and stakeholders illustrating the difference between a product roadmap and an execution plan.

• Lead a team of product owners to ensure program level priority, focus, alignment, and dependency orchestration to enable vertically sliced delivery, where applicable.

• Establish the product vision for complex and high impact products incorporating leading-edge technologies.

• Responsible for collaborating with team(s) to surface and implement/address improvements/remove impediments that have implications across the department.

• Function as the voice of the client, interfacing with enterprise leaders as an advocate for your product.

• Align user needs and business value while streamlining and championing delivery channels for product delivery.

• Develop epic, feature, and user story requirements with acceptance criteria while acting as final release gatekeeper for new functionality.

• Facilitate strategic road mapping, release planning, sprint planning sessions, retrospectives, and demos.

• Provide relevant product success metrics and set a metrics strategy/framework.

• Prepare and deliver written and spoken communications regarding progress and status for both internal and client teams.

• Contribute content to the Product Management practice monthly.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in a Product Manager capacity in a software development-based enterprise environment.

• 5+ years of creating product objectives that align to company strategy.

• 5+ years of experience creating epics, problem statements, and features.

• 5+ years of decomposing features into user stories for software products.

• 5+ years creating and maintaining a product metrics artifact.

• 5+ years establishing goals and objectives for your Product that align to business unit strategy.

• 5+ years of experience using Agile Lifecycle Management tools (Jira, ADO, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Scrum Master or Product Owner Certification.

• Experience translating product strategy into a well-planned, well-maintained, and prioritized product roadmap.

Ideal Mindset:

• Accountable Partner. You stay on track with your goals and take the necessary actions to achieve them.

• Collaborator. You want to see everyone on the team succeed and are willing to help a teammate in need.

• Curious Mind. You ask questions, listen, observe, and have disruption tolerance.

• Honest Challenger. You contribute in a meaningful way.

Must reside in the US