Position: Product Owner
Company: Hero Teams
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

About us
The Hero Teams team have been working together for over 10 years. Our local teams work with medium to large software companies in Australia. Hero is a positive place to work with growth, sustainability and excellence at our core. We have a strong belief in transparency with our people, clients and processes. We trust, train and empower our team members so they are able to deliver the best code, process, products and support to our clients.

We have a great modern office to work from with awesome perks and benefits for our staff, you can find more info about our office here.

About the role
Location: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine or remote
Employment Type: Full-time

The Product Owner is responsible for collaborating with the development team to achieve product goals.

This involves working closely with the Product Manager, Scrum Master, UX, QA and other business stakeholders to acquire an in-depth understanding of customer and business needs and then translating these requirements to the development team. Of all roles, they have the most in-depth understanding of business rules and functional design.

In addition, the Product Owner plays a generalist role, supporting the delivery of the Sprint Plan including management of implications for other development teams and/or business departments. This includes, but is not limited to: stakeholder engagement, meeting facilitation, triage, informal reviews and acceptance testing.

‍Key Responsibilities:
The core function of the Product Owner includes but not limited to:

Acquire a deep understanding of customer and business needs that drive requirements
Work with the Product Manager to build out the roadmap. Then take that roadmap to the development team with context
Work with UX and the Product Manager to model business processes, dependencies and user journeys
Utilisation of customer centric development approaches including qualitative and quantitative analysis to build context, refine
requirements and measure product outcomes
Facilitate requirement and design discussions with other stakeholders including UX, Product, Architecture.
Write Epic descriptions and User Stories including clear acceptance criteria
Assist with Backlog Grooming. Contribute to story refining, splitting, merging and removal
Facilitate estimation sessions with Developers and QAs
Participate in all Agile ceremonies for team
Support developers with continual feedback of functionality as it is developed
Perform acceptance and/or regression testing where required
Identify/manage impediments, risks & issues. Take appropriate action to resolve or escalate. Perform defect triage and early diagnosis.
Support and contribute to a collaborative Scrum environment including values of courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness
Support management of releases including preparing reports and internal communications.
Ensure compliance with Information Security and privacy policies and procedures.
Support of releases including cross business execution, training and communications
About you:
﻿Proven experience having performed as a Product Owner in an Agile environment

Experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner working with SaaS technology platform is a plus
Must have the ability to work in an agile team and ideally have had experience writing user stories
Experience as a Scrum Master is also beneficial
Experience in Human Resources or Payroll is *desirable*
Strong attention to detail
Strong communication skills
Well written documentation skills
Confidence in highlighting issues and suggesting solutions
Key to this role is an awareness of data privacy and security as you will be dealing with sensitive data in accordance with Hero Teams' security policies and practices.