Position: Product Owner
Company: Hygge Software
Experience required: no_exp
English level: upper

We are a web hosting company of approximately 300 people, with teams in Cape Town (head office), Johannesburg, Canada, Ukraine and India. We see ourselves as business enablers, stimulating the economy by helping the business mass market to interact and transact online.

Our product is a large-scale, mass-market hosting infrastructure that is a complex beast requiring quality automation and processes to make sure it can scale and perform optimally, 24x7x365. 

You will be part of a scrum team/s where you will represent our internal customer’s needs and be responsible for managing and prioritising your product backlog and effectively building a collective understanding of the product/space with the team. We are passionate about the frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available.


👌 What you’ll do:

- Use your product skills, industry knowledge, and competitive research to conduct in-depth discovery to understand and break down the product vision into sequenced features and stories for product development.
- You will work with many stakeholders, including product management, platform and software engineering, UX, QA, customer service, and legal.
- Participate in all relevant team meetings and ceremonies to grow the collective understanding of the business domain and support executing the team’s prioritised features.
- Drive value for our customers through a balanced prioritisation of new features, enhancements, maintenance work, support work and technical debt.
- Focus on value delivery through meaningful objectives supported by the prioritised features and stories.
- Assist in defining priorities according to business value, complexity, and expectations.
- Be an involved member of the greater product team and contribute to continuous improvement of our way of work.
- Work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to steer the team's objectives to align with our short- and long-term goals.
- Consider carefully MVP, vertical slicing and user story writing to enable effective and fast feedback. Consider a system, testing, support and delivery implications...
- Manage your availability - given stakeholders across the globe, we sometimes need to join/host meetings outside typical office hours.

👌 Who you are:

- You have a background in the financial space.
- You think holistically.
- You are a critical thinker, skilled at blending different perspectives in the pursuit of a mission.
- You have a curious mind with a logical and structured approach to problem-solving and always strive for simplicity.
- You understand servant leadership and have good relationship-building skills.
- You are an excellent communicator and storyteller, engaging with your audience on a personal level.
- You are good at sorting out ambiguity.
- You have an understanding of Agile software development.
- You are structured and give close attention to details.
- You are persistent and rational in that you put facts above speculation.

💻 Technical Requirements

- Having worked with technical dev teams in the past as a Product Owner.
- Knowing how to work in Jira and Azure DevOps will be an advantage.
- At Hygge, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. 

We hope this appeals to you and we look forward to hearing from you!