Position: Product Owner for Global Hotel Solutions Provider
Company: Brightgrove
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**About the Client**
Our partner is one of the market leaders in the global business travel and hospitality market with IT delivery centres in Cologne, Berlin, Warsaw and Kyiv.
From its founding in 1972 the company has had a constant focus on technological innovation: from teletype systems to one of the world’s first Online Booking Engines in 1996, embracing the Web 2.0 revolution and into modernity.
Currently, the company focuses on serving Fortune 500 corporate end customers, leveraging Data Science and Data Engineering as well as running OBEs and joining products.

**About the Project**
The primary goal of the Product Owner is to represent the business stakeholders to the development team. In this position, you will be responsible for driving and defining the launch of new products, features, and services within HRS. You should have a deep understanding of your product(s) and a solid grasp of strategy, software development, and methodologies to deliver a high-quality product to increase company revenue. Additionally, you should be able to partner with internal technical experts and internal stakeholders to collaborate in the development of product roadmaps and define and execute priorities, outline milestones and deliverables.

**About the Team**
Become part of the Procurement Domain delivery team.

**Responsibilities and Skills**
Responsibilities:
Responsible for the voice and vision of your product(s). This includes innovation, development and end-to-end launch of new features through collaboration with the other product teams, internal business partners, internal technical experts and commercial services partners
Evaluate data, stakeholders feedback to develop insights and ultimately product features tied to objectives with product end-users (both internal and external)
Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including analytics, design/user experience, engineering, QA and business partners to advise on product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
Develop, own, and execute delivery roadmaps
Work in an environment and continuously review the business needs, define priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks
Ensure product aligns with company mission and goals
Collaborate with the product team, and product leaders to establish workflows and goals
Prioritize and maintain the development team backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders, technical teams and leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
Ensure adequate time is included in all planning to support technical quality initiatives
Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
Resolve development and requirement issues where necessary to speed delivery
Ensure developers understand the value of features that are being developed and that they are implementing user stories correctly
Work with business stakeholders on the go-to-market plan, working to ensure that product management, marketing, training, customer service, and communications have what they need to be successful
Provide thought-leadership and innovative ideas for the furthering of the product(s)
Work with technical leads and QA on release planning
Skills:
2+years previous experience as a product owner or in a related field
Solid understanding of the software product lifecycle
Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of digital solutions (Experience is SaFe is a plus)
Understanding of the business implications of core technical decisions; ability to discuss implementation strategy with developers
In-depth understanding of methodologies, technical understanding of products and software concepts, and up to date on industry standards and best practices
Experience running a board using Jira
Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc)
Comfortable working with multiple teams, in-house and remote
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders and business concepts to developers.
Accurate and precise attention to detail
Able to build strong interpersonal relationships with team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
Bachelor’s (BA or BS)/Master’s in Business, Computer Science, or related field