Product Owner, Stockholm

About the assignment:

- Location: Stockholm
- Duration: Approx. 8 months
- Apply as soon as possible
- Extent: 100%
- Please note that the mandatory requirements have to be met in full in order for us to present your profile to our Customer.


Description

We are looking for a Product Owner to join one of of our new exciting and agile product teams in Business Tech.

The Product Mission is: We empower our organisation to comply with global and regional product policies in a safe, inclusive and sustainable way, thereby delivering the best products to our customers.

You will get the opportunity to work in a dynamic & creative Product Area where we have the responsibility for the Design & Product Development Tech solutions for Group. We have just formed our teams and our area, so we have an adventure and learning journey ahead of us in many ways.

The product team has high agile maturity and consists of a team of approximately 10 people, located in Sweden and India, with close collaboration with colleagues also in Hong Kong.

We are looking for a person who has experience of leading hands on agile tech deliveries in a business context with a strong customer focus and willingness to learn.

Work tasks

- Take end-to-end ownership of the product (full lifecycle from ideation, through requirements, tech implementation and rollout to optimization) with ultimate accountability for business and customer value delivered
- Lead a cross-functional team of engineers and business expert to execute and deliver value
- Translate customer needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their product
- Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles
- Provide great tech solutions for your product and ensure tech is an accelerator
- Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders to ensure optimal collaboration across relevant business functions in the broader company
- Establish and manage relationships with key external vendors to ensure optimal collaboration and long- term strategic partnerships.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of market / industry landscape and customer needs through close collaboration with key stakeholders and users to adjust strategy and priorities dynamically
- Clearly communicating the product mission, OKRs, and backlogs across the organization


Mandatory competence and experience:

- Experience in leading and supporting hands on agile tech deliveries in a Product Owner role and/or as a scrum master
- Knowledge of agile methods such as scrum, Kanban, SAFe.
- Experience from working with development teams from ideas and requirements, to implementation, delivery and maintenance
- Understanding of devops concepts and an interest in operational stability and excellence
- Language skills - English and Swedish


Preferred competence and experience:

- Experience from working with distributed and/or outsourced teams
- Worked with tools such as JIRA and confluence


Desired personal competence:

- Ability to understand and analyse complex information and share it in effective and powerful communications
- Ability to understand people psychology and to connect to people to encourage new behaviors
- Ability to take responsibility, work proactively and continuously improve activities in complex, quickly transforming environments


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How to proceed with the process

- Apply for the assignment through this ad.
- State your preferred hourly rate in the application.
- Upload your CV in English in word format.
- We will revert to you if we need further information or clarification regarding your application.
- The Customer usually reverts to us within 10 working days from the last application date. We aim to get back to you promptly with any new information regarding your application or the assignment. If you have not received any information from us within this time frame, please contact us through our platform.


You will be informed about the Customer should you be called to an interview.

About Shaya Solutions

Stockholm based consultancy and competence firm with focused on IT, Management and Technology.

We focus on customer / consultant satisfaction and quality in our services offered throughout Sweden.

Our core values are Humility, Perseverance and Flexibility.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

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