Job Summary:
The Product Owner is responsible for guiding the products development ensuring that it aligns with the vision meets customer needs and delivers value. Acts as a liasion between the development team and the customer. Addition responsibility includes defining and prioritizing the product backlog ensuring project team delivers a valuable product to our customers.
Job Description:
Product Strategy
- Support stragetic product roadmap that outlines the key initiatives features and enhancements planned for the product over time.
- Articulate the product vision and value to our customers
- Understand the market trends and customer needs to shape the product direction
Project Delivery
- Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline deliverables and scope management
- Responsible of executing Avertras methodology (MiFlow)
- Establish product requirements: Collect clarify and translate specific business requirements into documentation and conceptual designs from which technology applications and solutions can be developed
- Create maintain and prioritise the product backlog; lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
- Ensures that user stories are concise understandable and actionable for the development team
- Leads sprint planning sessions to select user sotries for each sprint based on the teams velocity
- Leads daily standup meetings sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Works closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline deliverables and scope management
- Engages customer to gather product feedbackto ensure their needs are being met.
- Create mockups and work with UX on design
- Define accectance critria for user stories ensure the project team understands the expected outcome.
Team Collaboration
- Communicate with stakeholders: Act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate the design and modification of systems to realize business strategies.
- Train other teams on the core product value proposition and the problems the product solves.
- Provide implementation support to crossfunctional teams.
- Contribute to the development of marketing communications and training in support of the prioritised programs.
- Advise and consult with crossfunctional and crossbusiness unit stakeholders in support of development initiatives that span the endtoend value chain.
- Provide project health status to upper management.
- Provide knowledge transfer of product to the Customer Success team.
Requirements
Needed Competencies:
- Participate in exploratory discussions regarding desired business operations performance improvements.
- Review and analyze current IT systems documentation and work process requirements to identify system capability gaps.
- Document current and future business/system/data flows.
Development & Testing:
- Work with the development team in an advisory capacity to produce new systems.
- Work with the testing team to develop relevant test scenarios and testing plans.
Implementation Maintenance & Monitoring:
- Facilitate implementation or rollout of new functionality (e.g. assist with the design development and sometimes delivery of training for end users).
- Plan and develop strategies to convert data from the current system to the new structure if required.
Process Review & Enhancement:
- Perform continuous reviews of a process or system to align processes with changing business conditions and new products and service offerings.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Specific knowledge of systems design methodology analysis frameworks and business process reengineering and modelling techniques
- Familiarity with project management tools process documentation tools software testing and user acceptance testing techniques
- Highly detailoriented by nature
- Strong relationship management skills
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks or projects
- Proficient in UML with handson project experience
Preferences:
- Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA)
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
- Disciplined Agile / Agile Product Owner Certification
- Scrum Certification
Education:
- Undergraduate
- University Degree in the fields of: Computer sciencetechnology business management information systemseconomics engineering
Experience:
35 years in related field.
Travel:
Dependent on project commitments.
Work Schedule:
As per office schedule
Benefits
Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decisionmaking for customercentric industries like Utilities Financial Services Logistics and commerce that drive the worlds economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in todays enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.
What can we promise you:
- Youll join a global family of awesome passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
- We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
- That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.