Analyst, Product Owner
Royal Caribbean Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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About the role
- Assist in defining product vision and roadmap in collaboration with senior product owners and stakeholders.
- Maintain and update product backlog items; write clear user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize backlog based on business value and stakeholder input.
- Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and retrospectives to enable predictable delivery.
- Gather, document, and analyze requirements for small-to-medium initiatives; ensure requirements are testable, traceable, and aligned to business objectives.
- Collaborate with development, QA, UX, and business units to clarify requirements, resolve questions, and validate delivered functionality.
- Monitor delivery progress, track dependencies and risks, and communicate status and escalations to stakeholders and senior product owners.
- Identify impediments and escalate unresolved risks or issues to senior team members and stakeholders.
- Participate in demos, workshops, and requirement walkthroughs to collect feedback and confirm acceptance criteria.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives and promote adoption of agile and product management best practices.
- Build foundational knowledge of business domains, processes, and emerging technologies relevant to assigned products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or related field.
- 2–3 years’ experience in business analysis, product ownership, or related IT role.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to translate stakeholder needs into actionable tasks and acceptance criteria.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills; able to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, able to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements.
- Experience with agile task management tools and MS Office suite (preferred).
- Basic understanding of process improvement concepts and product lifecycle practices (preferred).
- Exposure to software delivery in an agile environment (preferred).
Benefits
- Hybrid working environment (office and remote) with flexibility required to attend agile ceremonies and stakeholder meetings.
- May require occasional flexible hours to meet stakeholder schedules or attend cross-time-zone meetings.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
business analysisproduct ownershipagile methodologiesuser storiesacceptance criteriarequirements gatheringprocess improvementproduct lifecycle practicesanalytical skillsproblem-solving
Soft skills
effective communicationcollaborationself-motivateddetail-orientedadaptabilitystakeholder managementcross-functional teamworkprioritizationfeedback collectionrisk management