Job description
As a Product Owner, you will have a critical role in leading product development from start to finish. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that the product meets the company’s goals and objectives, while driving product innovation and ensuring success. Your ability to make data-driven decisions and understand the market and customer needs will be essential to achieving product success and driving company growth.
Your responsibilities include:
- Collaborating with business stakeholders and Engineering to align product strategy with overall business goals.
- Creating and maintaining the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company goals and customer needs
- Listening to customer feedback and analyzing user data to identify product solutions and/or opportunities for improvement
- Strategizing and presenting product development ideas to stakeholders, as well as proactively updating them on progress
- Creating product specifications and user stories, and working closely with Engineering and Business Teams to ensure requirements are clearly defined and understood
- Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements
- Continuously improving the product delivery process by embracing agile principles and methodologies
- Coaching and mentoring other product owners and team members to develop their product management skills
- Acquiring a deep understanding of the product, tracking product metrics to measure success, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
To succeed in this role, you need to be:
- Proactive, adaptable, and flexible in responding to challenges and changes.
- Highly professional.
- Willing to go the extra mile to achieve desired outcomes.
- A strong collaborator with excellent communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Skilled in problem-solving, with the ability to find creative solutions.
- Committed to continuous improvement and open to experimenting with new approaches to enhance work processes.
Technical requirements:
- 4-5 years of successful experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager (or any similar role)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proven experience delivering data-driven solutions with a strategic mindset
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and deliver products on time and within budget.
- Familiarity with software engineering principles and processes
- Solid background in delivering software applications or improving existing ones
- High degree of proficiency in prototyping and in growth-focused development
- Solid understanding of the principles and psychology behind good UX
