At The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), we believe that technology will power the future of beauty. Across more than 25 globally recognized brands sold in over 150 countries and territories, we use technology to reinvent and redefine how consumers worldwide explore and express their individual beauty. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation and a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected.

Our Digital Technology Centers are made up of talented individuals who exemplify ELC’s heritage of high-performance, innovation, and family values. We’re looking for creators, leaders, and visionaries with the passion and imagination to shape the next generation of beauty products and experiences. We’re hiring technologists at all levels.

The Product Owner is responsible for establishing, prioritizing, and accepting the work developed by a team of Scrum Developers in order to ensure that the requirements for what is being developed are correct, as well as to ensure that the most value is delivered. 

The Product Owner will be working on delivering human centered experiences that drive accessibility for both consumers and employees, ensuring the unique needs of people with disabilities and neurodiversity are well understood and acted upon. 

The Product Owner will gather feature requests, schedule releases and coordinate sprints.  He/she should be able to identify business and other stakeholder needs, guide customers and stakeholders to understand the business value of the work planned for development, as well as interact directly and frequently with cross-functional teams of Scrum Developers to manage product releases.

The Product Owner must also ensure that the organizational vision is supported and that product roadmaps are followed and updated so as to be current at all times.

This position requires strong communication, lateral influencing skills and a passion for inclusion, diversity and equity.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Product Owner is responsible for: 

• Owning the product roadmap:
  • Working with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and align the product roadmap to strategic organizational objectives.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders during the visioning and development of deliverables to ensure the accuracy of the product roadmap.
  • Researching and analyzing the market and potential users to ensure accuracy of the current product.

   

• Serving as the voice of the stakeholder:
  • Identifying and assisting stakeholders to understand the business model and value proposition.
  • Representing the Scrum Software Development Teams in front of stakeholders.
• Managing the Product:
  • Determining scope and defining product backlog items (epics, features, themes, and user stories for functional and non-functional requirements, as well as for defects in order to guide the Scrum Software Development Teams).
  • Solving product-related problems, making key product development decisions, performing analysis of trade-offs to remain on-track delivering business commitments.
  • Having a basic understanding of the end-to-end customer experience, including knowledge of dependencies that occur with product integrations.
  • Being accountable for the developed products and/or services delivered and communicating the plans and plan changes to business partners as often as needed.
  • Assessing value, developing cases, and prioritizing product backlog items (PBIs), ensuring that work focuses on those PBIs with the maximum value aligned with the current product strategy.
  • Acting as an ambassador for the products or services internally and externally, as well as serving as the primary contact for queries related to the products or services.
  • Developing lightweight Scrum artifacts with sufficient detail for product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams, and not creating “big up-from design documents” (BUFDs).
  • Working closely with product management and leadership to only create products that fit within the company’s current portfolio.
  • Developing and maintaining an appropriately prioritized backlog of PBIs for implementation.
  • Drafting KPIs and OKRs along with the business and leadership and applying them to make key product decisions in support of the business and organizational vision.
• General Accountabilities:
  • Being a full member of the Scrum team, available to the team daily and attending all Scrum events.
  • Following competitors, the industry, new technology opportunities and other new trends.
  • Increasing an understanding of Agile practices across the organization at all levels.

QUALIFICATIONS

JOB REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Required Experience:
  • Five years as a PO working in an Agile SCRUM environment (other Agile framework experience is good to have)
  • Five years working with cross-functional Software Development Teams under SCRUM methodology teams to deliver common sprint goals
  • Five years representing the voice of the stakeholder
  • Five years of active Product Management
  • CSPO (Scrum Alliance) or PSPO (scrum.org) certification required, CSP-PO (Scrum Alliance) highly desired
  • Experience developing minimum viable products (MVP)
  • Expertise creating and maintaining an annual product roadmap at the quarterly level
  • Management of stakeholders and their expectations, including expertise deferring stakeholder requests
  • Ability to understand both the functionality provided and technologies used by the product
• Highly Desired Experience:
  • A commitment to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion - understanding and awareness of diversity and inclusion issues and best practice
  • Experience working with and representing the unique accessibility needs of people with disabilities and neurodiversity
  • Experience developing minimum marketable features (MMF) (in addition to minimum viable products (MVP)
  • Entrepreneurship skills or exposure to lean start-up
  • Exposure to an Agile transformation from Waterfall to Scrum or other Agile way of working
  • Understanding of the ten elements of Servant Leadership with the ability to work with leadership at all levels
  • Experience with Scrumban, Kanban and XP
  • Experience with DevOps and Agile engineering practices, (TDD, PP, CI/CD, etc.)
  • CSP-PO (Scrum Alliance) certification
• Required Skills:
  • Interpersonal skills developing relationships with teams, stakeholders and leadership
  • Customer relationship management and empathy
  • Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
  • Comfortable working and navigating within a large IT organization to carry through action items to completion with minimal supervision
  • Time management – comfortable in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong documentation skills and follow through 
  • Decision making and business acumen – creative and strategic thinking
  • Methodical in approach, with attention to detail
  • Active listener

JOB: Information Technology PRIMARY LOCATION: RO-B-Bucharest JOB TYPE: Standard SCHEDULE: Full-time SHIFT: 1st (Day) Shift JOB NUMBER: 2210327

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) is the global leader in prestige beauty. ELC is the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout the organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of the company’s founder Estée Lauder.