Position: Product Owner
Company: Namecheap
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**Required skills**

— 3+ years as Product Owner
— Proved experience in Web
— 3+ experience in agile using scrum methodologies
— 1+ year experience in project management
— Fluent verbal and written English is a must
— UML/BPMN or other business modeling experience
— Knowledge of requirements management process
— Understanding of web application development process
— Experience of creation and support technical documentation
— High level of communication skills
— Proactive, goal and results orientated

**As a plus**

— Understanding and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)
— HTML5, CSS3
— Basic understanding of system integration (WebServices, SOA)
— yED, Visio, Draw.io
— Axure RP/Mockingbird or any other tool for creating layouts/wireframes, prototypes and specifications
— Documents administration system: Atlassian Confluence etc.
— Issue tracking systems: Atlassian JIRA etc.
— Project management systems: MS Project etc.
— Kayako Helpdesk
— Zendesk customer service platform
— Customer support representative experience

**We offer**

— High & competitive salary
— Challenging work in an international professional environment
— Opportunity to influence software development process, to be the owner of the product in your field of expertise
— Opportunity to apply SAFe methodology
— Flexible management
— Flexible / Casual Leave
— Relocation Bonus when moving from a different city / country
— Full benefits package: paid vacation and sick leave
— Continuous professional development (free internal and external professional trainings)
— Free English classes in the company office
— Free use of the services provided by Namecheap (for non-commercial purposes)
— Quarterly teambuilding activities and company corporate events
— RDX gym membership
— Coffee, tea, fruits

**Responsibilities**

Iteration Execution (SCRUM):

— Backlog Refinement
— Iteration Planning
— Just-in-Time Story Elaboration
— Tactical decision making
— Epic / Story level business logic definition and elaboration
— Supporting Acceptance Test-Driven Development
— Accepting Stories. The PO is the only team member who can accept stories as done
— Understand Architecture Enabler Work
— Participate in Team Demo and Retrospective
— Defect management, triage, root cause definition, prioritization, acceptance
— Communicating status externally
— Planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones where appropriate
— Tracks project milestones and deliverables where appropriate

Preparation and Participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning (SAFE):

— As a member of the extended Product Management team, the Product Owner is heavily involved in Program Backlog refinement and preparation for PI Planning
— During the event, the Product Owner is involved with story definition, providing clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and story sequencing, and drafting the team’s specific objectives for the upcoming Program Increment (PI)

Program Execution (SAFE):

— During the course of each PI, the Product Owner coordinates content dependencies with other Product Owners
— The Product Owner also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders

Inspect and Adapt (SAFE):

— Teams address their larger impediments in the PI inspect and adapt workshop. There, the Product Owner works across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality of the program
— The PI system demo occurs as part of the inspect and adapt workshop. The Product Owner has an instrumental role in producing the PI system demo for program stakeholders.
POs also participate in the preparation of the PI system demo to make sure that they will be able to show the most critical aspects of the solution to the stakeholders

Project description

ZONE3000 works with Namecheap project (www.namecheap.com).
Namecheap was founded in 2000 on the idea that all people deserve value-priced domains delivered through stellar service. Today, Namecheap is a leading ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company with over two million customers and ten million domains under
management — and we’re just getting started.
Our culture is built on the values that we live every day; the way we work, the way we collaborate
with our global network of colleagues and the way we relentlessly innovate solutions that meet the
emerging needs of our customers.