Position: Product Owner
Company: Namecheap
Experience required: 3y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

Description

Technical Operations Domain Services team develops business logic for core DNS system as well as DNS data storage, access permission rights, replication mechanisms. It includes API for third party services and DNS service infrastructure. Also the team provides DNS recursor service for public and internal use, URL-forwarding service, internal services DDOS protection, data analytics service and many others.

Requirements 

3+ years as Product Owner
Proved experience in Web
3+ experience in agile using scrum methodologies
1+ year experience in project management
Fluent verbal and written English is a must
UML / BPMN or other business modeling experience
Knowledge of requirements management process
Understanding of web application development process
Experience of creation and support technical documentation
High level communication skills
Proactive, goal and results orientated

Will be a plus

Understanding and experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)
HTML5, CSS3
Basic understanding of system integration (WebServices, SOA)
yED, Visio, Draw.io
Axure RP / Mockingbird or any other tool for creating layouts/wireframes, prototypes and specifications
Documents administration system: Atlassian Confluence etc.
Issue tracking systems: Atlassian JIRA etc.
Project management systems: MS Project etc.
Kayako Helpdesk
Zendesk customer service platform
Customer support representative experience

Responsibilities

Iteration Execution (SCRUM)
Backlog Refinement
Iteration Planning
Just-in-Time Story Elaboration
Tactical decision making
Epic / Story level business logic definition and elaboration
Supporting Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Accepting Stories. The PO is the only team member who can accept stories as done
Understand Architecture Enabler Work
Participate in Team Demo and Retrospective
Defect management, triage, root cause definition, prioritization, acceptance
Communicating status externally
Planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones where appropriate
Tracks project milestones and deliverables where appropriate

Preparation and Participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning (SAFE)

As a member of the extended Product Management team, the Product Owner is heavily involved in Program Backlog refinement and preparation for PI Planning 
During the event, the Product Owner is involved with story definition, providing clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and story sequencing, and drafting the team’s specific objectives for the upcoming Program Increment (PI)

Program Execution (SAFE)

During the course of each PI, the Product Owner coordinates content dependencies with other Product Owners
The Product Owner also has an instrumental role in producing the System Demo for program and Value Stream stakeholders

Inspect and Adapt (SAFE)

Teams address their larger impediments in the PI inspect and adapt workshop. There, the Product Owner works across teams to define and implement improvement stories that will increase the velocity and quality of the program
The PI system demo occurs as part of the inspect and adapt workshop. The Product Owner has an instrumental role in producing the PI system demo for program stakeholders
POs also participate in the preparation of the PI system demo to make sure that they will be able to show the most critical aspects of the solution to the stakeholders

We offer 

High & competitive salary
Challenging work in an international professional environment
Opportunity to influence software development process, to be the owner of the product in your field of expertise
Opportunity to apply SAFe methodology
Flexible management
Flexible / Casual Leave
Relocation Bonus when moving from a different city / country
Full benefits package: paid vacation and sick leave
Continuous professional development (free internal and external professional trainings)
Free English classes in the company office
Free use of the services provided by Namecheap (for non-commercial purposes)
Quarterly teambuilding activities and company corporate events 
RDX gym membership 
Coffee, tea, fruits