Junior Product Owner

Job Summary:

We are looking to add a Junior Product Owner with a real passion for technology to our growing FrontEnd Team in Bucharest!

As a team the FrontEnd develops a wide range of products from bespoke applications to templates widgets APIs AQA and a fully customizable CMS based on WordPress. In terms of tech we use ReactJS NodeJS PHP WebDriverIO Svelte and Kubernetes. This role will be part of the Project Management Team where all the business magic happens meaning that there are a lot of projects to be handled and a lot of challenges to be tackled each day.

With this being said we are also looking in refining all of our internal procedures so just keep an open mind as all suggestions are welcomed and considered.

Company Intro:

EveryMatrix is a leading B2B SaaS provider delivering iGaming software content and services. We provide platform casino sports betting payments and affiliate systems to over 300 customers worldwide. The company is profitable has over EUR 100m in annual revenues and 950 employees in offices across 12 countries in Europe Asia and the US. EveryMatrix was founded in 2008 and remains a founderowned private company.
EveryMatrix is a member of the World Lottery Association (WLA) and European Lotteries Association. In September 2023 it became the first iGaming supplier to receive WLA Safer Gambling Certification. EveryMatrix is proud of its commitment to safer gambling and player protection whilst producing market leading gaming solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work with project stakeholders to define project scope goals deliverables resources and timing.
• Work with the technical team to understand challenges plan and deliver features and balance technical debt resolution with business directives.
• Break down business requirements to a manageable level and translate them into a form that is workable by the development team.
• Ensure project documentation is done complete and easily available.
• Effectively manage the project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved.
• Provide a project schedule to identify when each task will be performed; work with Jira and Confluence to control and guide the agile delivery process.
• Ensure team members are not blocked by anything ensure high productivity push for task completion identify and remove blockers.
• Ensure high work quality and professionalism ensure all team members fulfill their assigned responsibilities.
• Track and report on project milestones and provide status reports; be accountable for project results.
• Keep track of the amount of time spent on each task and log it using the official company tools (JIRA)

• Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders; facilitate communication be transparent.
• Keep up to date with all technical developments and enhancements across all products.
• Come up with ideas to improve and perfect the product to first and foremost fulfill the needs of EveryMatrix clients.

Requirements:

• At least 1.5 years of experience in any of the following: technical team leadership product management/ ownership or business analysis.
• Communication and negotiation skills; presentation skills with a business analysis/ SWOT focus; ability to reason with stakeholders and prove that a certain approach benefits the product.
• Ability to prioritize tasks/ objectives with strong organizational administrative and analytical skills.
• Experience in identifying industry leaders compiling feature comparisons with positive differentiators and creating specifications that achieve the same or better results.

Nice to have:

• Technical University or University of Economics/ Business; relevant nonuniversity certifications are optional but welcome (SCRUM PMP BA PO);
• Qualification in project/ product management or equivalent. Critical thinking and problemsolving skills.
• Experience in Team Leadership; motivational skills are always nice to have.
• Planning and organizing decisionmaking. Good conflict management skills.
• Experience working in a fastpaced project environment and adaptability.

• Work Life Balance:
  

• Enjoy 22 annual leave days with the number increasing to 32 after 5 years with the company;
• 10 sick leave days per year (without a doctors note);
• 40% work from home over any 3month period after the first 3 months;
• During the first 3 months 100% work from the office central location near University Square;
• If returning to work soon after having child 1 year 100% WFH for mothers;
• WFH after child is born for fathers: 13 weeks of 100% WFH (from the day of the birth of the child).

Benefits and Office perks:

• Lunch allowance (130 EUR Net/ month);
• Private Medical insurance Regina Maria;
• Our own inhouse gym health & wellbeing programs;
• Fruits Tuesday;
• Access to online learning platforms Udemy for Business and OReilly and budget for external training;
• Bookster;
• Massage at work;
• Anniversary gifts;
• Frequent freebar parties annual wholecompany parties (have previously rented our own planes to get everyone together!);
• Fun corner: ping pong table PS4 lots of board games.