Product Owner

Role purpose:

• Maximize the value of the product resulting from the work of the sprint teams
• Work with the Product Management team to help evolve and realise our product vision
• Provide leadership in evaluating and adopting applicable Agile / Scrum / Lean / Design best practices and new trends

Key responsibilities:

• Establish a vision of what you wish to build and convey that vision to the sprint team. Motivate the sprint team with a clear, elevating goal
• Define the product backlog and create actionable user stories with the sprint teams
• Use customer feedback to inform thinking on the backlog
• Groom and prioritise the work in the backlog according to business value
• Help ensure that the scrum team always have an adequate amount of well-prepared user stories to work on
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of sprint goals
• Review and accept completed user stories, making sure work fulfils the acceptance criteria
• Develop a solid understanding of our users, products, the market place, the competition and future trends
• Drive analysis, scoping and design for major client implementations

Key deliverables:

• Well curated backlog
• Well written user stories
• Best possible new Dynamic Planner product features or client implementations
• Energised and supportive sprint teams
• Energised and supportive stakeholders

Skills:

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Great communication, presentation and people skills
• Great listening skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• A second European language would be an advantage

Experience:

• 10yr experience in a Product Owner role or similar
• Solid experience of agile processes and principles
• Personal financial advice domain knowledge
• Experience providing SAAS internationally an advantage

Attributes:

Qualifications:

• Ideally, Product Ownership certification, and…
• ISEB (or similar) qualification in Business Analysis