Position: Product Owner
Company: A-HR
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

This is one of the world’s most respected experts in digital commerce and experience. As a full-service omnichannel partner, they deliver strategy, design, development and managed services to brands, retailers and manufacturers all over the world.

As a product owner, you will focus hosting offering of their business. To succeed in this role, you will need the skills to deliver technical requirements, plan projects and work closely with a diverse team of business stakeholders, project managers and software engineers to improve our hosting platform. You will develop and deliver solutions to help grow our business. In this role, you will support their delivery and sales teams to craft and execute our strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Identifies, develops, and drives platform strategy and initiatives.
Translates requirements from the business and tech into detailed technical requirements for the team and ensures that requirements created are detailed, approved by stakeholders, and accurately understood by the team.
Gathers and creates product requirements based on business needs.
Creates the clearly defined features together with stakeholders, ensuring a clear understanding of the business value and the expected behavior.
Translating requirements into the product backlog.
Manages the product backlog through continuous prioritization and organizing product testing and launch processes.
Responsible for prioritization of Platform Engineering backlog with business stakeholders
Performs backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release planning with Platform Engineering team members.
Communicates status and provides input regularly to all stakeholders.
Ensures internal customer validation of solutions by working with stakeholders and key end-users.
Coordinates trade-off and dependency analysis for team’s backlogs based on business priorities.
Accepting the work items after completion, following high standards of quality and agreed definition of done
Works on the launch of new products and enhancements.
Works with Platform Engineering to ensure that documentation is present and updated.

Skills & requirements

5+ years of experience in technical product/platform management role.
Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure/cloud. 
Strong software development knowledge and experience.
Ability to translate business requirements into system and functional requirements.
Demonstrated understanding of web services, API’s, and associated interchange formats.
Experience in business analysis to include creating business and functional requirement documentation.
Experience developing mission-critical software and high-volume transaction systems.
Experience working in matrix and agile environments.
Excellent interviewing, listening, observational, analytical, and organizational skills.
Excellent writing and communication skills.
Ability to communicate and work effectively with cross-functional teams across the organization.
Preference of former technical role to include software engineering, business applications, or infrastructure engineer.
Experience in working with Jira, Confluence, and similar tools Good understanding of Scrum methodology and agile development.
Education:

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required