Product Owner

Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the worlds economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in todays enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.

What can we promise you:

• You ll join a global family of awesome, passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
  
• We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
  
• That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.
  

The Product Owner is responsible for understanding the goals and requirements of a business area, relating these objectives to the capabilities possible through the product, and guiding the specification, design, and development of technology solutions to produce positive business results in the form of product(s).

Main Job Responsibilities:

• Advise and consult with cross-functional and cross-business unit stakeholders in support of development initiatives that span the end-to-end value chain.
  
• Establish product requirements: Collect, clarify and translate specific business requirements into documentation and conceptual designs from which technology applications and solutions can be developed.
  
• Represent the business need for new and modified systems: Provide business input throughout a project, from
  
• initial stages to the implementation of the solution.
  
• Communicate with stakeholders: Act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate the design and modification of systems to realize business strategies.
  
• Train other teams on the core product value proposition and the problems the product solves.
  
• Create, maintain, and prioritise the product backlog; lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories.
  
• Create detailed, actionable user stories for the development team; answer developers questions as the customer/user representative.
  
• Write acceptance criteria; accept the finished user stories to make sure the work meets the criteria.
  
• Attend scrum meetings including stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
  
• Create mock-ups and work with UX on design.
  
• Demonstrate the latest iterations to customers (pre-release) and gather feedback.
  
• Document new features for implementations and release notes.
  
• Contribute to the development of marketing, communications, and training in support of the prioritised programs.
  
• Provide implementation support to cross-functional teams.
  
• Lead and champion initiatives across stakeholder groups.
  

Requirements

Needed Competencies:

Project Definition & Design:

• Participate in exploratory discussions regarding desired business operations performance improvements.
  
• Review and analyze current IT systems, documentation, and work process requirements to identify system capability gaps.
  
• Document current and future business/system/data flows.
  

Development & Testing:

• Work with the development team in an advisory capacity to produce new systems.
  
• Work with the testing team to develop relevant test scenarios and testing plans.
  

Implementation, Maintenance & Monitoring:

• Facilitate implementation or roll-out of new functionality (e.g assist with the design, development, and sometimes delivery of training for end users).
  
• Plan and develop strategies to convert data from the current system to the new structure, if required.
  

Process Review & Enhancement:

• Perform continuous reviews of a process or system to align processes with changing business conditions and new products and service offerings.
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Specific knowledge of systems design methodology, analysis frameworks, and business process reengineering and modelling techniques.
  
• Familiarity with project management tools, process documentation tools, software testing and user acceptance testing techniques.
  
• Highly detail-oriented by nature.
  
• Strong relationship management skills.
  
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks or projects.
  

Preferences:

• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
  
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
  
• Disciplined Agile / Agile Product Owner Certification
  
• Scrum Certification
  

Education:

Undergraduate University Degree in the fields of: Computer science, technology, business, management information systems, economics, engineering

Experience:

3-5 years in related field

Travel:

Dependent on project commitments

Work Schedule:

Per local office work schedule