Position: Product Owner
Company: Simporter
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Simporter’s software-as-a-service helps Fortune 500 FMCG brands identify which ingredients, benefits, and sensory attributes to include in their new product ideas by cross-analyzing reviews, search, and social data. 

We predict for brands how much demand, competition, and passion will exist around each attribute to answer questions like, “should I make charcoal or lavender toothpaste?” or “should I make a beverage that helps with digestion or makes your skin glow?” 

In this role, you will work with a team of software engineers and NLP data scientists, working with 10-20 Enterprise clients, leading both category and market expansion.

**Responsibilities:**
As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for:

1. Lead Product Strategy Implementation. Translate product strategy into detailed task requirements for the technical teams, including uploading user stories onto YouTrack, maintaining a clear backlog, communicating requirements, and prioritizing new tasks among existing ones;

2. Classifying Data. Working to create valuable distributions of the data and creating classification formulas to improve distributions and business value from our software.

3. Oversee Product Design. Describe the user flow for UI/UX designers and provide regular feedback to prepare designs to be ready for development.

4. Client Development. Leading client setups, including translating the agreed scope of work to the technical team, setting realistic deadlines with meaningful deliveries, ensuring high quality results on the interface, and participating in client calls to integrate their feedback into our backlog when important.

5. Roadmap. Updating and improving the roadmap, as well as dividing it into 3 month and 2 week sprints to make long-term company vision realized by the technical team via achievable, bite-sized amounts of work.

6. Keep Major Stakeholders Informed. Making sure that the CEOs are satisfied with product development and other department leads are informed of future product development efforts, ongoing progress, and major deliveries.

7. Train & Onboard New Staff. Running product demonstrations and explaining the market expectations of Simporter’s software to new employees in other departments, as well as onboarding more closely new employees in the product department.

8. Project Management. Making sure the team has their tasks set, tracked, estimated, and priorities are clear on a Scrum / Agile basis. 

**Requirements:**
1. Comfortable knowledge of SQL. Knowledge working with large datasets and identifying insights. Bonus if you have worked with point-of-sale data.

2. Basic Machine Learning Knowledge. Knowledge of how machine learning models work and the process of building and deploying models.

3. SaaS Experience. Minimum +1 years of experience working in a directly related role at a SaaS company.

4. Accountability. Highly organized individual who can hold themself and their team accountable.

5. B2+ English. Strong verbal and written English to be able to talk with a global team and global client base.

6. Energetic personality. 

You will be in charge of the trend prediction product as a product owner, leading the product vision, project managing the team that works on it, and making sure that clients are satisfied.

**We offer:**
- Possibility to develop your skills and quickly grow in startup
- Competitive salary and conditions
- Team building activities
- Work in friendly environment