Position: Product Owner
Company: Dish Ukraine
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

This Product Owner will be a leader of the team and will be working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment using Lean/Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities :
- Lead and influence a cross functional team to ensure the team delivers products that meet business requirements/needs and delivers business and operational value to customers
- Ensure product roadmap and vision are communicated to the development team
- Technical understanding of the components, API, data, systems and services and inter- dependencies that make up the product.
- Develop relationships with and have real empathy with developers.
- Break down and prioritize delivery of products and features by developing and maintaining the product backlog, user stories, and cross-product dependencies
- Design sample JSON payloads and defining the API contracts to drive well-designed APIs
- Elicit, identify, document, and refine requirements from business problems to detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that may include technical requirements
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with product managers, product analyst, stakeholders, developers, QA, and other team members to analyze information and functional requirements, advocate the development process through to implementation, and ensure the delivered product meets business needs
- Effectively manage code repositories such as gitlab
- Perform acceptance testing for user stories and features
- Collaborate with product analysts/developers/QA during product development through implementation
- Facilitate iteration planning sessions, daily team stand-ups, grooming sessions, and retros
- Track and report on team work completed, capacity, backlog, velocity, etc.
- Forecast product/feature delivery timelines
- Use metrics and feedback to improve team and organization processes, best practices, performance, and delivery
- Assist with deployments and production support issues
- Coordinate between multiple IT Teams e.g IT Networking, Security, Data Architects, IT-Compliance, IT-Access Management, Database Administrators and other Software Development Teams
- Coordinate with Technical Service provider third party vendors. e.g. Shopify and other App providers for Apps compatible with the current platform
- Perform Technical & Functional Impact Analysis on the new requirements/projects initiated by business or IT. This includes analysis on systems dependencies, Analysis for Security/compliance requirements
- Coordinate dependencies and impacts with Other Dev Teams to ensure timely, controlled deployments

Qualifications
- Bachelor or master degree in a technical discipline (information systems, engineering, computer science) 
- Development background 
- 2 years of Product Owner, Product Manager, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Project Manager or equivalent combination experience
- Excellent organizational, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills
- Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional resources and work well in a distributed environment
- Demonstrated understanding of and experience using Agile processes and methodologies
- Ability to plan for future work while maintaining the current delivery with rapidly changing priorities
- Rally / CA Agile Central experience a plus
- Technical proficiency in APIs, Java or JavaScript, or other programming languages a plus
- Technical proficiency in swagger is a plus.
- Technical Proficiency in Relational Database Management Systems (e.g. Oracle, MySql, MS Access) is a plus.
- Technical Proficiency in Understanding & troubleshooting complex IT Networking is a plus.
- Upper-Intermediate English level or higher

We offer
- Compensation of technical/soft training and professional events;
- Free LinkedIn learning;
- English classes and English speaking club with native speaker;
- Medical insurance;
- Paid swimming pool/gym as a part of social package.