Agile Product Owner

IBM

IBM

Product

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Position Overview

Desire years of experience overall IT: 7-9

Industry experience: Pharmacy

In this role, as an Agile Product Management Advisor you will act as the internal voice of the customer. This role will define system features, participate in validation and is responsible for the scope of work that the Software Engineering Excellence teams will complete. You will provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects including visioning and roadmap for the SEE team. As you help teams proactively manage risks and dependencies across the portfolio you will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally across the PBS and Pharmacy areas.

In this role you will have the opportunity to exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in planning, and delivering initiatives. You will focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business.

Responsibilities

• Produce clearly defined requirements that can be refined in user story format acceptable to stakeholders and scrum team resulting in a backlog depth of at least 1.5-2 sprints of ready-to-work stories.

• Develop in depth product knowledge for assigned product area

• Establish positive working relationships with client, internal stakeholders and peers

• Drive discussions effectively with parties to elaborate process flows, user stories, story mappings, acceptance criteria and success criteria.

• Manage product goals and metrics for on time delivery.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize backlog of user stories for initiatives and maintain product roadmaps accordingly on a regular basis (weekly).

• Coordinate with Delivery Manager on delivery timelines for planned work.

• Ability to influence and present on detail of assigned product initiatives and their status in a setting where external client representatives will be engaged.

• Work confidently with the scrum team and BPOs to review targeted roadmap efforts for prioritization regularly.

• Support stakeholders and drive preparation and alignment of objectives for quarterly planning events including completing decomposition of work for identified prioritized program epics and confirming work delivery timings from dependent teams..

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Agile experience required preferably Agile SAFe certified.

• JIRA/Jira Align

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills

• Ability to navigate difficult discussions using data as evidence for best next steps and resolution.

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, execution team and peers.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Position Overview

Desire years of experience overall IT: 7-9

Industry experience: Pharmacy

In this role, as an Agile Product Management Advisor you will act as the internal voice of the customer. This role will define system features, participate in validation and is responsible for the scope of work that the Software Engineering Excellence teams will complete. You will provide expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects including visioning and roadmap for the SEE team. As you help teams proactively manage risks and dependencies across the portfolio you will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally across the PBS and Pharmacy areas.



In this role you will have the opportunity to exercise considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in planning, and delivering initiatives. You will focus on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business.



Responsibilities



• Produce clearly defined requirements that can be refined in user story format acceptable to stakeholders and scrum team resulting in a backlog depth of at least 1.5-2 sprints of ready-to-work stories.

• Develop in depth product knowledge for assigned product area

• Establish positive working relationships with client, internal stakeholders and peers

• Drive discussions effectively with parties to elaborate process flows, user stories, story mappings, acceptance criteria and success criteria.

• Manage product goals and metrics for on time delivery.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize backlog of user stories for initiatives and maintain product roadmaps accordingly on a regular basis (weekly).

• Coordinate with Delivery Manager on delivery timelines for planned work.

• Ability to influence and present on detail of assigned product initiatives and their status in a setting where external client representatives will be engaged.

• Work confidently with the scrum team and BPOs to review targeted roadmap efforts for prioritization regularly.

• Support stakeholders and drive preparation and alignment of objectives for quarterly planning events including completing decomposition of work for identified prioritized program epics and confirming work delivery timings from dependent teams..



Qualifications



Required Skills:

• Agile experience required preferably Agile SAFe certified.

• JIRA/Jira Align

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills

• Ability to navigate difficult discussions using data as evidence for best next steps and resolution.

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, execution team and peers.

Advanced English.

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