Product Owner

**Your Job**

You’re raising the stakes for your career to do more. Learn more. Impact more. Here, your innovation, ideas, and technical curiosity will help us deliver better care for billions of people worldwide. You’ll put your professional expertise, talent, and drive to work by building and managing the technology behind our portfolio of iconic brands.

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day, and it takes the best people to make that happen.

We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform, especially when it comes to product and process innovation. Our customers are always looking for new and better. Our competitors won’t stop evolving. And our communities demand responsible corporate practices. We need bold, transformative ideas from people who can turn them into reality. That means there’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

The Product Owner is responsible for **maximizing product value** by articulating and prioritizing the product features for a cross-functional delivery team to develop. 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.

Multiple product owner roles exist across digital marketing platforms and business products including consumer experience, web, and eCommerce sites, consumer retention and CRM, consumer interaction and service, content management and syndication, and customer sites. The specific experience of the product owner may allow them to fill this role in different areas over time.

The product owner understands consumer and business objectives, goals, and requirements to write user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritize the backlog, drive demand into other teams as necessary, and establishes a reliable predictable cadence of releases to production.

The product owner roles in digital marketing must understand and lead complex technical solutions, include privacy by design, security by design, and meet and maintain regulatory compliance.

**Our expectations**
- Work closely with the respective product manager and respective engineering manager point of contact and/or architect(s) to define product features according to product vision, roadmap, and strategy and adoption at a global, multi-market scale.
- Creates a sense of common goal for the entire team based on the product vision.
- Work closely with the Product Manager to build and evangelize an OKR-oriented approach to deliveries, and ensure the business needs and KPIs are being met within deliveries made by the team.
- 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 team to 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 in North America, LAO, EMEA and Israel.
- 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, Scrum Master Manager and technical teams to ensure stories in the upcoming sprint are fully understood and stories in future sprints are well groomed refined & 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 consumer within the team.
- Facilitates sprint planning and backlog refinement in partnership with the scrum master or coordinates the scrum master responsibilities across the product team.
- Ensures the entire 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 in multiple regions and business units to understand their expectations and helps the team understand how to set up for successful user acceptance testing
- Includes the entire team in the discovery backlog and regular design exercises
- Coordinates the sprint review with relevant stakeholders, faithfully communicates in the language of the business, and writes new user stories as needed based on cus