Position: Product Owner (Mobile App)
Company: DevsData
Experience required: 3y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2022-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are looking for a Product Owner who will be responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by the cross-functional stream-aligned team (SAT). In order to ensure impeccable features and functionality of the product as it relates to money flows, crypto transactions, and banking. Among other responsibilities, you will gather feature requests, facilitate comprehensive requirements gathering, schedule releases, and coordinate sprints.

The team is responsible for the tooling, build and development pipelines, and the advocacy of state-of-the-art technologies for both apps (Android and iOS).  PO would help in projects like creating a PoC of new technology to automate the release process, improving development pipelines, creating tools to facilitate or automate tasks.

**Requirements:**
- Previous working experience as a Product Owner for 3+ years;
- Working experience as a Mobile developer;
- Knowledge of Human Interface Guidelines (iOS) or Material Design (Android) will be crucial;
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or similar field (or equivalent working experience);
- Comprehensive knowledge of technical systems and architecture principles;
- Experience shipping market-leading products;
- Solid organizational skills, attention to detail, and proven ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities with competing timelines;
- Team-oriented and demonstrated willingness to roll up sleeves and get into the weeds of a project
- A dedicated workspace;
- A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area;
- Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications.

**Nice to have:**
- Expert knowledge about Web design best practices;
- Background that is coming out of UX/UI;
- Certified Scrum Product Owner or Certified Scrum Master qualification;
- Experience working in the crypto space.

**Responsibilities:**

**Vision**
- Own the roadmap of the apps enabling team;
- Help to prioritize and distribute apps initiatives to the other feature teams;
- Collaborate with the other feature teams, designers, and technical leads through visioning, execution and implementation of new technologies and tools;
- Improve the daily life of apps developers by automatizing processes, improving technology and daily coding experience;
- Assess opportunities for improvement, understand behaviour and test hypotheses using data analysis and discovery;
- Facilitate conversations between the feature teams, design and technology stakeholders to determine the “what” and “how to implement it in a consistent way across all the teams”.

**Backlog**
- Work closely with developers and other stakeholders to understand what initiatives give us the highest ROI in the different objectives of the team;
- Plan and prioritize initiatives backlog and development for the product;
- Set Sprint goals, track, and report on sprint progress.

**Oversee and manage development stages**
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of  specified and refined requirements to work on;
- Remove or mitigate impediments to the team progress;
- Represent and serve as the point of contact between subject matter experts and other stakeholders;
- Ensure the successful completion of Releases and Sprint Goals;
- Be the owner of the release process of both apps.

**Evaluate progress**
- Monitor the platforms’ performance, proactively identify process bottlenecks and lead initiatives to resolve discrepancies or other issues when identified, track and report issues through to resolution;
- Recommend and execute operational improvements, work with appropriate functional areas to simplify the way we do business and create a better customer experience;
- Lead the planning process, release plans, and set the expectation for the delivery of new features and capabilities.

**Research**
- Build knowledge on industry developments, provider landscape and regulatory changes, to become the go-to person for all things apps related;
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging topics in software development;
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging topics in mobile software design guidelines and technologies (e.g. Kotlin, etc.);
- Be aware of competitors in the FinTech industry;
- Be up-to-date with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.

Referral bonus: 3,000 PLN if we hire an engineer based on your recommendation 

**Get to know DevsData**
We are a technology consulting company and a recruitment agency, delivering software solutions to clients from Europe and the US. We work 100% remotely, in an international team, including people from Asia, London, or San Francisco. We employ people with experience in international corporations as well as students of the best technical and business universities.