Product Owner

Your main tasks:
• Work with Product Managers and the team to ensure priorities are correctly established, based on the longer-term strategy for the product
• Together with the team, prepare requirements, user stories and their acceptance criteria
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog ensuring the quality of its content
• Ensure the team gets the necessary support from Product Management to build their product
• Own and communicate roadmap and release planning for features &functionality, including dependency mapping and co-ordination with other teams
• Constantly monitor the progress and look for ways to improve the digital product and team performance
• Facilitate or participate in Scrum ceremonies, e.g. sprint planning, backlog refinements, sprint demos &reviews as well as retrospectives
• Work with UX and UI experts to define the consumer experience and product specifications for features and requirements
• Ensure proper analytics and tracking mechanisms are in place to deeply understand
consumer behaviours and identify opportunities for further improvements through relevant and reliable data
• Prepare and disseminate release notes for each release of the product
• Support overall adoption of agile principles and scaled-agile ways of working
• Drive alignment with the other product teams that have API interactions with yours

Problem and Scope Definition:
• Support formulation of problem statement and definition of scope. Drill down beyond the problems surface to understand root cause
• Construct problem statement including problem description
• Support the identification of risks and mitigation approaches

Requirements Gathering:
• Support team requirement gathering sessions
• Organize and sequence requirements into a user requirements document
• Write well formed, validated requirements and manage changes
• Use appropriate tools to record, track and manage requirements

Engagement Delivery:
• Demonstrate excellence in delivery of all solutions/recommendations, including supporting artifacts, on time and with high quality
• Deliver exceptional engagement support, including development and management of project plan(s) as needed
• Develop high quality deliverables that are "review ready" the first time
• Proactively share ongoing point of view and perspectives
• Display strong listening and communication skills when interacting with users and teams


Qualifications:


Must have:
• University degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience as Product Owner/Scrum Master for a mobile app product team, having applied Scrum principles and practices:
- owning, prioritizing product backlog and taking decisions
- breaking down deliverables, planning releases, monitoring product performance
- gathering data, creating documentation, collecting and analysing business requirements
- monitoring and increasing team performance
• First level Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM I)
• Drive teams to success, keeping yourself motivated and working with minimal supervision, guided by OKR's and product vision
• Extensive experience with Agile frameworks and Agile practices
• Good skills in leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, stakeholder management
• Problem solving attitude, highlighting risks and opportunities
• Fast learner, technology agnostic, pragmatic and striving for transparency
• Excellent mentoring skills
• Willingness to work in a high-paced and delivery-oriented team
• Experience with Atlassian (Jira &Confluence) or similar toolset
• Fluency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills


Nice to have:
• Experience with SAFe or other scaled agile frameworks
• Second level Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team