IT Product Owner

**Your Job**
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In your role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
**About Us**
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on
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**About You**
You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
**Main responsibilities**:
The LAO Data Product Owner is responsible for maximizing product value by articulating and prioritizing the product features for Marketing technology products in KC Latin America. The Product Owner ensures the right product is built by the product team in the most efficient manner. They work in an open, collaborative, and approachable manner with the product team to inspire optimal solutions that solve customers’ problems and challenge the team to find the smartest, most efficient solutions.
- Works closely with Global Marketing and IT Data and Media Program Managers and in region functional stakeholders to define product features according to product vision, roadmap, and strategy. Works with the Product Manager to drive & monitor product and feature adoption.
- Works closely with IT Platform Product Managers to define global product features according to the product vision, roadmap and strategy.
- Actively plans and prioritizes the product feature backlog according to business value and clearly articulates priorities for the product team. Working with the engineering manager balances the need to address technical debt and supports technical innovation in addition to adding product features.
- Leads the planning of product releases and sets expectations for delivery of new features with stakeholders.
- Collaborates with stakeholders regarding the correction of defects.
- Writes detailed user stories and acceptance criteria at a pace to ensure the product team always has an adequate number of prepared stories to work on. Works closely with the Engineering Manager and team to ensure stories in the upcoming sprint are fully understood and stories in future sprints are well groomed & estimated.
- Sets sprint goals in coordination with the product team and drives the team to deliver promised value. Ensures the volume and sequence of work flowing to the product team optimizes team performance and maximizes the value delivered.
- Actively participates in Agile ceremonies to provide immediate answers and direction to the product team based on domain expertise.
- Always represents the voice of the customer within the team.
- Facilitates sprint planning and backlog refinement in partnership with the Scrum Master
- Creates a sense of common goal for the team based on the product vision. Regularly engages with the product team to guide priorities, refine features, define functional requirements, and help address blockers impacting successful team completion of sprint goals.
- Ensures the team understands items in the product backlog to the level needed for them to estimate and commit to work during sprint planning.
- Works in close collaboration with stakeholders to understand their expectations and helps the team understand how to set up for successful user acceptance testing.
- Coordinates the sprint review with relevant stakeholders, faithfully communicates in the language of the business, and writes new user stories as needed based on customer feedback.
- Works in close cooperation with the team during retrospectives,

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