Position: Product Owner/Senior Business Analyst
Company: Brightgrove
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

**About the Customer:**
Our customer is innovating US-based company with exciting expertise in big data, analytics, and software development that established a new category of software called Analytic Management. The product is the only solution that enables businesses to create, catalog, and manage all analytics as assets which then become reusable across the enterprise. This can reduce analytics-related operational costs by as much as 90% and deliver 10x-100x improvements in efficiency through analytic reuse.

**About the Role:**
The Product Owner will focus on driving product excellence through continuous improvement practices and emphasis on timely code delivery. This role will report directly to the Product Manager. This role will function as the face of the customer to the engineering team, contribute to the product vision, and manage stakeholder expectations. Additionally, there is the expectation of strong collaboration with peers and other business units to ensure the alignment of goals.

**About the Team:**
The whole development team of 30 people is concentrated in our Kharkiv office. 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 the Sales department located in Evanston, Chicago (USA).

**Responsibilities:**
Face of the Customer
• Talk to customers and their representatives to understand the opportunities to be solved.
• Design solutions for feature requests with a distributed product management team.
• Demonstrate new features and facilitate retrospectives.
• Champion the customer when discussing requirements with developers.

Empower Engineering
• Decompose requirements, write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Manage expectations about the timing and delivery of new features.
• Identify risks, remove blockages, and ensure developers know what they are working on next.
• Negotiate tradeoffs among usability, performance, and deadlines with stakeholders.

Ensure Quality
• Maintain the engineering backlog, prioritize defects, validate release scope, and track metrics.
• Perform final acceptance testing to ensure the product delivers value to the customer.

**Candidate Requirements:**
• Kharkiv-based
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
• 3+ years product owner or business analyst experience
• Nice to have 1+ years of experience in SQL, and AWS technology
• Nice to have experience with Continuous Delivery (Kanban) development processes.