Product Owner DBA

Job Description

About Constellation Brands

If you have taken a moment to toast with a glass of wine, celebrate with a cocktail, or relax with a bottle of beer, chances are that you’ve shared that moment with us. For more than 75 years, we’ve led the beer, wine, and spirits industry by building admired brands that delight our consumers. Our portfolio balances iconic brands, such as Corona and Modelo, with exciting gems, such as Prisoner Wine Company and High West.

About the Digital Business Acceleration (DBA) Team

Today, we continue to push boundaries by transforming our company through the Digital Business Acceleration (DBA) program. As a member of an agile team, using digital, data science and advanced analytics, you will build business-changing digital tools and capabilities with a state-of-the-art tech stack. As a member of DBA, are the architect of your career with support and mentorship to thrive. You will have the opportunity to dive headfirst into exciting opportunities that will enable you to learn new things and work on a variety of different projects. We value bold ideas, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We like to have fun and truly embody a work hard, play hard mentality.

About Our Team’s Culture

Culture is the lime to our Corona and represents who we are. It’s really simple. We follow our 3 C’s – Care, Community, and Curiosity in everything we do. We care about and support one another and the work we do, we fail fast and learn together, and we never stop pushing boundaries and asking questions.

Community – We fail, discover, and celebrate together.

Curiosity – We are open minded and continue to test and learn as a team.

Care – We are genuine in our interactions and take pride in being authentic and supportive teammates.

About the Employee Experience

• Product Allowance so you can kick back and relax with Constellation’s awesome products.
• “Quiet Weeks” where there are no meetings scheduled as an opportunity to focus on individual development goals and have some heads-down time.
• Summer hours where we have half days on Fridays.
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $10,000/year so you can continue feeding your brain.
• $500 towards your home office set up.
• Ongoing learning opportunities, development experiences, and mentorship programs
• Occasional team building meetups.
• 160 hours of PTO with 13 paid holidays.
• Life/Work Balance? We're all about it. We offer much more than just health care benefits. Our innovative programs and resources are designed to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being for you and your family.

About You

We’re not here to put you in a box, but- like our brands- we have found that a particular blend of attributes and mindsets successfully make up an “outstanding candidate cocktail” Recipe as follows:

• Equal parts willingness to put ambitious ideas forward and support your teammates pursuing their goals.
• Strong pour of risk-taking, start-up mentality with a dash of sensitivity to navigating an enterprise size company.
• 2 ounces High West Bourbon (optional)
• Garnish with a passion to develop yourself and those you work with.

About the Position

The Product Owner owns the product backlog and defines the strategic vision for their team driven by the overall vision, collaborating with a variety of business domain partners and supporting Product Managers (if applicable) to identify value-add solutions, unlock digital assets, and solve complex business problems. They have a deep understanding of the target market/industry and build close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with overall strategy. The Product Owner manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnership across the different teams. They work closely within their team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new developments when necessary. Product owners will be accountable for specific business KPIs based on the area of the product they are focused on.

Responsibilities

• Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to the team and all relevant stakeholders.
• Supports Product Manager with future roadmap strategy and initiative definition (as applicable)
• Lead multi-disciplinary development teams through the agile product development lifecycle.
• Defines quarterly Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) focusing on high level business goals and implementing strategies to achieve results.
• Communicates with business sponsors and supporting organizational teams through quarterly review sessions, roadmap “spotlights” and status updates as needed.
• Accountable for product KPIs once solution enters production and communicates regular tracking to stakeholders.
• Utilize market /industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team and maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team.
• Works closely with business partners to establish each product’s business value and supports messaging, communication, and outreach as necessary.
• Collaborate with business and technical partners to prioritize roadmap initiatives and releases.
• Facilitates release planning with stakeholders as well as contributes to sprint demos (when necessary)
• Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design. Align outward facing product requirements & stakeholders.
• Work with HR to recruit, interview and onboard new team members who can perform the job role, demonstrate the right skills, and experience and grow the capability of the team.

Domain Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree with 6-8+ years in Domain area of expertise required and 3+ years of experience with product management, agile and scrum preferred.
• CPG experience required. Experience in Alcohol Beverage / Three Tier industry strongly preferred.
• Revenue Management experience a plus.
• Proven knowledge of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the relevant industry.
• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of standard precision practices, technology and supporting industry principles.

Agile/Digital Experience:

• Experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up, etc.)
• Experience in working in an Agile Work Environment and leading agile teams, building, and fostering high performing agile teams including working with external resources, consultants, and vendors.
• Deep experience leading with teams in an agile setting.
• Familiarity with tools and platforms supporting Agile methodologies and ideation sessions (i.e. Jira, Rally, Miro)

Individual Skills:

• Strong leader, collaborator, team player, and individual contributor.
• Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders.
• Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress.
• Strategic thinker with a structured approach for eliciting requirements and prioritizing value of workstreams.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Sitting, working at desk/personal computer for extended periods of time.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.

Don’t meet every requirement but still thinking about it? Take a shot! At Constellation Brands, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where differences are valued and celebrated. Excited about this role, but your qualifications are not perfectly aligned? We hope you will apply anyway- if it’s not this role, it could be the next one!

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The salary range for this role is:

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity

Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).