Lead in the creation of technical and functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product Management and Engineering teams. Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable stories. Collaborates with stakeholders and users to empathize with the situation and identify the problems. Validate the problem statements to ensure that the product can deliver the real value to customers and users. Collaborates with the Scrum team and stakeholders to ideate on the solutions, and validate the solution on many levels: Conceptual, Prototype, and in the development circle. Break down the solution including functional and non-functional requirements into epics, user stories, and tasks. Collaborates with Product Design to create, review, and validate wireframes and/or prototypes. Collaborates with the Product Design team to conduct user research to define user expectations, trials, and experiences. Continuously prioritizes and maintains the product backlog for assigned products and features. Balancing the requirements of customers, stakeholders, and required technical efforts and owning the decision to pivot when necessary. Proactively initiates, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with team members Effectively conveys the product vision to the Scrum team to map a clear path and create alignment Works closely with the Development Team to ensure sprint development goals are met, reprioritized as needed, and scope is maintained Participates/Leads in various Scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives Defends the integrity of the sprint goal and the committed work Provides quick, day-to-day, just-in-time decisions to business-level questions for the Scrum team Provides sign-off on product release functionality through validation of user stories and acceptance criteria