Position: Principal Product Owner for Analytic Management Software
Company: Brightgrove
Experience required: 5y
Category: Product Manager
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

**ABOUT THE CLIENT**
Coginiti’s mission is to empower individuals, teams, and departments to realize the full potential of enterprise analytics. Coginiti provides the industry’s only active analytic catalog solution for data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and business users, enabling them to interact with their data and analytic code in a whole new way. Coginiti currently has 15000 active users around the world and market potential for millions more. We have been doubling in revenue year over year and have 96% renewal rate as secured multiple rounds of investor funding to dramatically grow our product, engineering, sales and marketing teams.

**PROJECT DETAILS**
As a Product Owner, you will serve as a liaison between clients, end-users, technology and support teams to facilitate agile product development. This role requires involves a lot of end-user research and discovery and directly interfaces with software development, architecture, UX and operations experts to represent the voice of the customer/user and is responsible for defining, documenting and clearly articulating requirements to the delivery team. Reporting to the Head of Product, the Product Owner will use a high level of product knowledge and critical thinking to define what collaboration truly means for our users and how that translates to requirements in our product. We’re looking for someone who is not afraid to think big.

**YOUR TEAM**
The whole development team of 30 people is concentrated in our Kharkiv office, but we are expanding the location. The team consists of Java, JS, .Net, SQL Developers and QA Engineers. All developers are highly qualified, 70% of the team are Seniors. Product owners, C-level managers and Sales department located in Evanston, Chicago (USA).

**What we offer:**
+A career-defining opportunity to build a great product
+Very competitive compensation in base salary, bonus and stock options
+Ability to work remotely 100% of the time
+Skilled international team
+Best tools to get your job done
+Exposure to start-up and VC funding world

**WHAT’S IN FOR YOU**
Environment. Honesty, full transparency, and minimum bureaucracy
Health Beneﬁts. Paid time off due to health is agreed upon with your manager as needed. Medical insurance is available after the probation period is completed
Work Schedule. Agree on your work hours with your client and manager at the start or adjust as needed as you go. Work remotely or from comfortable locations in Kyiv and Kharkiv
Paid Time Off. The number of days depends on the project, and our caring HRs will make sure you don't forget to use them
Personal Development. Attend conferences, courses, workshops or get certiﬁed—get compensated fully or partly

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
✓Build a deep understanding of core Aginity app components, their interactions and use cases in our customers day
✓Build an audience and a plan for user discovery and research
✓Spend at least 50% of their time on interviews with end-users and conducting other market research
✓Gather and analyze usage data to formulate an improvement hypothesis
✓Have/build a deep understanding of major platform players – AWS, Azure, Google
✓Act as subject matter expert for SQL analytics and related product features/key user personas
✓Represent the voice of the customer by developing deep expertise and empathy for the customers
✓Build true understanding of client business process as is; and design a solution for a new process that will add value to clients business
Iterate over multiple ideas and explore multiple paths forward – don’t get attached to one way of doing things
✓Work with UI/UX team to build working prototypes
✓Define a build plan from MVP to fully built our product, together with testing and data requirements along the way
✓Lead the creation of functional and non-functional requirements in collaboration with the rest of the product management and engineering teams
✓Create drafts of features and user stories with acceptance criteria to seed product backlog in order to begin the grooming process
✓Prioritize and refine backlog and work with Engineering/UX to design and build the product
✓Work with other feature and platform teams to resolve any dependencies
✓Communicate in an effective, timely and efficient manner with business owners and the agile delivery team, ensuring the successful delivery of software during each iteration
✓Develop rapport and trust with business owners, key stakeholders and a highly technical development team
✓Have/build a deep analysis of competitive landscape – Hyperquery, Hex etc.

**SKILLS**
✓Bachelor’s degree
✓Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Owner (or similar) in an agile software development environment including strong working knowledge of the methodology, user stories, and MVP / iterative development
✓Not afraid of a blank slate – we are looking for someone who can do the research and find the answer
✓Strong analytical skills and attention to detail required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into an application and operational requirements
✓Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts throughout the entire life cycle of a product
√English – fluent
√Excellent time management skills including the prioritization of tasks and controlling scope
√Ability to reconcile key stakeholder interests, conflicting priorities, and business strategy and influence without formal management authority
√Passion for analytics and data; good understanding or willingness to learn what’s important for Data Analyst and Analytical Engineer user personas
√SQL experience and ability to conduct discovery interviews with a wide range of SQL users