Product Owner

Product Owner

Kneat enables regulated organizations to move from paper-based validation to intelligent digitized paperless solutions. And we do it through the ongoing development of a powerful purpose-built software 2014 after 8 years of intensive software development we launched the worlds most advanced validation software to help revolutionize the speed precision transparency and intelligence of validation in the Life Sciences sector. The solution is now used by some of the worlds leading Life Sciences companies.

This will be a key role within the Product Management Team working in a highly collaborative manner with our customers account managers developers and QC engineers.

You will be responsible for defining and documenting the business requirements for Kneat Gx. You will work directly with our customers and account managers to determine and document their business requirements.

This role requires an experienced person to produce and maintain solution requirement documentation that is easily and clearly understood by both our customers and our delivery team.

Some of the primary responsibilities of this role include:

• Working with our customers to explore and understand their business requirements and transform these into detailed functional specifications that can be delivered by our software team.

• Collaborate with all stakeholders to develop a feature roadmap that aligns with business objectives.

• Participating in delivery team sprint meetings sprint planning Daily Standups backlog grooming.

• Be the primary go-to person within the delivery team in relation to customer requirements.

• Lead the design and implementation of product demos

• Performing user story decomposition if required.

• Develop user stories define acceptance criteria and manage prioritization of product backlog in an agile environment

• Ensuring solution requirements documentation is kept up to date for the duration of the project.

• Develop and deliver regular metrics reports to track progress against business objectives
  

Necessary Skills

• Strong team player with a results-oriented track record.

• Experience of Agile / Scrum methodology essential.

• The role has a strong customer-facing element so the candidate must be confident and comfortable in dealing with team members at all levels within the organisation and possess well-developed communication and presentation skills.

• Experience creating software functional specifications and business process flows.

• Proven ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.

• Proven ability to read analyse and interpret complex documents and to respond effectively to the most sensitive enquiries or complaints from customers.

• Ability to solve complex problems and take an innovative approach to problem solving.

• Demonstrate a passion for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency proactive approach with a solutions-oriented mindset adding value by getting things done accountability & ownership and the ability to prioritise own workload.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with a continuous learning mindset.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working in life sciences industries or regulated industries.

• Good understanding of high-level software architectural concepts such as data-models process flows and context diagrams etc.

• Ability to have a positive impact on team members and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.

• Previous software development or quality assurance experience would be a significant advantage.

What We Offer You

At Kneat we truly value ideas and collaboration sowevecreated an environment that buildsprotectsand celebrates teamwork. Our strong culture is central to our continued success.

We offer programs and rewards that one would expect froma highly successfuland growing technology company:

A fantastic culture team energy and a high-growth successful company

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health benefits
• Training & professional development

We invite interested applicants to share their resume and cover letter.

Weoperateon a hybrid working basis.

Applicants must have a permanent Irish working visa.

Successful applicants will be subject to references and a background check.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform theaforementioned dutiesand responsibilities satisfactorily. Reasonableaccommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Kneat is an equal opportunity employer

Required Experience:

Manager