Product Owner - Orlando, United States - NBCUniversal

Description

Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success.

Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week.

There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You'll learn more about this during the recruitment process.


JOB SUMMARY:

The Digital and Experience Development team is focused on driving product strategies to evolve and enhance the Guest experience across Universal Parks & Resorts.

As a Product Manager, the primary function of this role will be to manage new capabilities across the entire product lifecycle, from product strategy, planning, definition, delivery, and implementation.

Universal Orlando is now searching for 2 Product Owner in the following valuestreams:


Data Enablement / Analytics:
Leads the strategy and roadmap focus on the Data Products and Team.

Utilizes extensive experience in data analytics to consolidate, manage and secure large enterprise-level datasets

Oversees the implementation and management of MDM, Governance, and PAM systems.

Collaborates with architects, the technology team, and stakeholders to ensure product goals are met.

Coordinates with multiple teams using tools like Jira to drive product development through Agile and SAFe practices.

Manages multiple products simultaneously while maintaining high standards of quality and performance.

Serves as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, effectively translating and communicating requirements and progress.

Leverages technical and product experience to make informed decisions regarding product development and enhancements.

Contributes to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product management space

Prior experience with implementation of Master Data Management Products including Collibra, Privicera, and ETL tools like Five Tran a plus

Knowledge of Data identity graphing utilizing AWS's Neptune entity resolution preferred

Knowledge of Data Ingestions into snowflake preferred

Marketing Technology (MarTech) and Personalization

Leads the MarTech/Personalization products strategy and roadmap

Focuses on streamlining and optimizing how data is used to help improve our Guest experience, driving improved decisioning and personalized communications

Experience with marketing technology tools, processes, and integrations.

Knowledge of Marketing tools such as Adobe, Salesforce, CDPs, CRMs, Email composition tools, and mobile and social marketing products.

Both positions are a full-time Project Hire. Project scope is anticipated for 2 years. May have potential to convert longer and/or long term.


MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

DIGITAL PRODUCT OWNER
Product Definition

Partner with the teams to establish experience interactions and designs based on high level feature requirements

Drive detailed product Feature definition, including functional and non-functional requirements

Support product implementation across the domestic sites, capturing site specific functional requirements in partnership with on-site stakeholders

Product Delivery

Facilitate product backlog grooming with the Delivery scrum team

Define and document product user stories to enable technical design, development, and testing

Participate in scrum team Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily-stand ups, and retrospectives

Product Implementation and Support

Perform product validation throughout the development cycle, to ensure alignment with functional requirements.

Maintain close partnership with Business Transformation to ensure that product functionality aligns with Operational and Business capabilities.

Represent and support the product as the ongoing subject matter expert.

Develop an ongoing approach for measuring the success of newly implemented experience enhancements, to enable well-informed future product planning

Product Planning

Establish the product roadmap and coordinate with key partners to manage product delivery and implementation timelines

Partner with other Digital Product Managers to ensure product dependencies and integration points are considered during roadmap and release planning

Establish product backlog priorities for release and sprint planning, considering new capabilities, minor enhancements, and defect fixes

Product Strategy

Proactively evaluate Guest experience strengths and pain points from all perspectives, to identify opportunities for new and/or improved experience delivery capabilities

Develop and frame up product recommendations with associated cost, value and experience analysis, to gain approval and funding for development

Collaborate and liaise with key business partners to establish product goals and objectives

Ensure product alignment with the holistic experience transformation vision

Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.

Performs other duties as assigned.


EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree required in Business, Technology, Digital Marketing, Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Industrial Engineering, or related. Master's degree preferred.


EXPERIENCE:
5+ years in Product Management, with product experience preferred in Digital Data / Technology products, Data Enablement products, MarTech / Personalization products, or Digital Marketing or Analytics related

Experience with large scale transformation initiatives

Demonstrated ability to define and execute strategic initiatives

Working in an agile technology delivery program

Defining a customer journey and digital product roadmap

Product backlog management, including Feature definition, requirements, prioritization and sprint planning

Close partnership with a Technology Delivery team

Stakeholder engagement and relationship building

Executive communication, with the ability to influence decision making

Excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills, and be able to explain complex concepts both concisely and simply

or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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