Position: Product Owner
Company: EveryMatrix
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Responsibilities:

Take lead of an agile team as the Product Owner
Work with project stakeholders to define project scope, goals, deliverables, resources and schedule;
Work with the technical team to understand challenges, plan and deliver features and balance technical debt resolution with business directives;
Break down business requirements to a manageable level, workable by the development team;
Ensure project documentation is done, complete and easily available;
Effectively manage the product scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved;
Provide a product schedule to identify when each task should be performed; work with Jira and Confluence to control and guide the agile delivery process;
Effectively deliver presentations to key stakeholders and top-management;
Take full ownership of the features backlog, their prioritization and the proposed system solution;
Ensure that the development team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on;
Main point of contact between the development team and other departments/units;
Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals;
Facilitate and participate in the daily Scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives;

Requirements:

At least 3 years of experience in any of the following: product management/ ownership or business analysis;
Communication and negotiation skills; presentation skills with a business analysis/ SWOT focus; ability to reason with stakeholders and prove that a certain approach benefits the product; ability to converse with Software Development teams;
Ability to prioritize tasks/ objectives with strong organizational, administrative and analytical skills;
Ability to work across a wide range of differing projects at the same time in an efficient manner within a fast-paced environment;
Experience in identifying industry leaders, compiling feature comparisons with positive differentiators and creating specifications that achieve the same or better results;
Demonstrate a passion toward continuous Product Improvement;
High levels of commitment and responsibility;
Interest in and knowledge of the latest technology and trends;
Highly organized and self-motivated, able to see a job through to conclusion;
An analytical mind-set with the ability to translate business cases and analysis into tangible outcomes;
Ability to determine development priorities, balancing strategic goals and short-term tactical developments, taking into account resource limitations;
Experience working in Agile software development environments.