Product Owner

Job description

TheProduct Owner is responsible for guiding the product’s development, ensuring that it aligns with the vision, meets customer needs, and delivers value.

Acts as a liaison between the development team and the customer.

Additional responsibilities include defining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring the project team delivers a valuable product to our customers.

Job Description:

• Support strategic 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 market trends and customer needs to shape the product direction.
  
  

Project Delivery

• Work closely with Project/Delivery manager on project timeline, deliverables, and scope management.
  
  
• Responsible for executing Avertra’s 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 prioritize the product backlog; lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories.
  
  
• Ensure that user stories are concise, understandable, and actionable for the development team.
  
  
• Lead sprint planning sessions to select user stories for each sprint based on the team’s velocity.
  
  
• Lead daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
  
  
• Engage customers to gather product feedback to ensure their needs are being met.
  
  
• Create mock-ups and work with UX on design.
  
  
• Define acceptance criteria for user stories, ensuring the project team understands the expected outcomes.
  
  
• Communicate with stakeholders: act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate system design and modifications to realize business strategies.
  
  
• Train other teams on the core product value proposition and the problems the product solves.
  
  
• Provide implementation support to cross-functional teams.
  
  
• Contribute to marketing, communications, and training development in support of prioritized programs.
  
  
• Advise and consult with cross-functional and cross-business unit stakeholders in support of development initiatives that span the end-to-end value chain.
  
  
• Provide project health status to upper management.
  
  
• Transfer knowledge of the 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 roll-out 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 processes or systems to align with changing business conditions and new products and services.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Specific knowledge of systems design methodology, analysis frameworks, and business process reengineering and modeling techniques.
  
  
• Familiarity with project management tools, process documentation tools, software testing, and user acceptance testing techniques.
  
  
• Highly detail-oriented.
  
  
• Strong relationship management skills.
  
  
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple tasks or projects.
  
  

Preferences:

• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA).
  
  
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
  
  
• Disciplined Agile/Agile Product Owner Certification.
  
  

Education:

• Undergraduate degree in fields like Computer Science, Technology, Business, Management Information Systems, Economics, Engineering.
  
  

Experience:

3-5 years in related fields.

Travel:

Dependent on project commitments.

Work Schedule:

As per office schedule.

Our Mission is to Simplify Life.

We aim to simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer-centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the world's economies.

Join us to be part of this revolution and help solve significant enterprise challenges impacting employee and customer experiences.

What we promise:

• You’ll join a global team of passionate people working to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
  
  
• We want you to help us improve.
  
  You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
  
  
• We will invest in you, giving you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.
  
  

Required Skill Profession

Gestión De Productos