Position: Product Owner
Company: Software MacKiev
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

About the project
Insightful Science is seeking a technical and organized Product Owner with excellent communication skills to join our rapidly expanding Product Ops team in Kyiv.
We’re backed by Insight Partners (www.insightpartners.com), one of the world’s premier software investors. Our applications (GraphPad, SnapGene and Geneious) are used by tens of thousands of scientists every day to advance biological breakthroughs.
The Product Ops team is responsible for developing and maintaining a Shared Platform that all brands use to run (customer-facing websites, internal applications, marketing automation, reporting, and more).

Requirements:
● Upper-Intermediate or better English level, conversational and written
● Excellent written and oral communication skills: able to articulate complex ideas clearly
● Ability to zoom in and out: you can dive deep into technical discussions and project
details with engineering teams, and be strategic/big picture with executive teams
● 4+ years Web product management/ownership experience
● Experience delivering products with international reach (B2C, B2B)
● Experience managing development sprints with an engineering team
● Comfortable with project planning tools (Jira, Confluence, Asana)
● Experience with wireframing and flowcharting tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch)
● Familiar with web technologies and concepts (HTML, CSS, JavaScript): you can hold
your own in engineering discussions, and ask the right questions
● Hands-on data analysis skills: SQL and web analytics (e.g. Google Analytics, Amplitude)
● Familiar with SEO concepts and best practices
● Detail oriented, and endlessly curious
● Biased towards action and outcomes, and self-learner
● Proven ability to make decisions independently, quickly and with little guidance
● University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or similar field

Responsibilities:
● Collaborate with management to translate quarterly objectives into initiatives
● Own project delivery from definition to release, and post-release monitoring
● Use data analytics to identify problems and opportunities for optimization
● Write product requirements (PRDs), user stories, and specs
● Produce wireframes, user flows, and other artifacts to communicate requirements
● Coordinate with designers, when needed, for design system deliverables
● Manage project scope, milestones, and timelines
● Work with engineering to deliver on initiatives on time
● Perform user-acceptance testing and assist with QA
● Monitor website performance using web analytics and SEO tools
● Assist with execution and measurement of website A/B tests
● Develop expertise in the Shared Platform: use cases, systems and workflows

We offer:
• Free medical insurance coverage
• Health program (swimming pool and gym)
• Flexible working hours
• 24 fully paid vacation days
• Paid sick leave
• A convenient location — 5 minutes from metro, parking