Senior Product Owner Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for senior product owner, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

Previously, I was responsible for effective servant leadership to the scrum teams using agile engineering and scrum methods.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applicable databases
• Working knowledge of Change Management practices
• Working knowledge and demonstrated use of Process Engineering methodologies
• Create and maintain the Product Backlog - prioritise delivery plans working with the delivery manager/scrum master
• Define user requirements and get user buy in for product definition and delivery approach
• Bring together views and perspectives of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities
• Interpret user research in order to make the correct product decisions, noting that users do not always know what they want
• Keep continually abreast of changes to user habits, preferences and behaviours across various digital platforms and their implications for successful delivery of government digital services

I would like to submit my application for the senior product owner opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project by accurately capturing and defining functional and non-functional requirements, as well as managing evolving requirements communicated by the Product Management / Business Owners / Architecture.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Proficiency with project management tools such as Confluence, Aha! and Jira, and Word, Excel, PowerPoint/Keynote
• Proficiency with AGILE methodology continuous improvement
• Analytics talent, with exposures in Power BI and/or Tableau
• Experience with Jira and/or Confluence (desirable)
• Serve as an expert in more than one business or system domain capable of leading development across multiple teams at the program level
• Experience in media or retail industry preferred
• Experience delivering Enterprise-level solutions
• Strong working knowledge of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) concepts

I would like to submit my application for the senior product owner opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In my previous role, I was responsible for direction to the product scrum team by creating and refining requirements written as an Agile Story, Epic or Feature.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Underpin the delivery and iteration of digital services through effective analysis of qualitative and quantitative user data
• Communicate credibly and confidently with a wide range of digital delivery colleagues both internally and externally to generate commitment to goals
• Spot warning signs of things going wrong and provide a decisive response to significant delivery challenges
• Has been involved in leading product development of mobile or web working as part of a small, multi-disciplinary agile team
• Understands contemporary technology trends
• Understands GDS service design manual
• Has an understanding of UX design and user research
• Has an understanding of Lean techniques and processes

I am excited to be applying for the position of senior product owner. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for vision and direction to the agile development team and stakeholders throughout the product development process.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Understands what an MVP is and can articulate why we take this approach
• Passionate, able to get buy in and communicate in a very engaging fashion
• Understands continuous product delivery
• Can write an effective user story with acceptance criteria
• Background in product development and delivery
• Experience in business and/or project delivery or relevant work experience with Agile
• Strong understanding of web platforms and CMS systems, and their strengths and differences
• Understanding of agile development and scrum teams

Please consider me for the senior product owner opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In my previous role, I was responsible for prioritized stories from the product backlog to the agile teams and participate in team planning meetings.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Specific knowledge on SSO, SAML, Identity Federation, WSS, PKI
• Have managed individuals, mentored and coached direct reports
• Strong knowledge of Web standards and leading web and mobile based applications
• Knowledge in service based architecture, and building scalable RESTful services
• Love to lead a squad (that’s how we call our agile teams)
• Appreciate to balance the different stakeholders
• Set priorities and enable the squad to continuously deliver
• Are good in understanding requirements, especially the tricky and technical ones