Primary Position Objectives
The Product Owner will play a key part in generating technical software requirements for development teams and facilitating release cycles. They will:
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Understand IDT products and services, and how to translate requirements into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
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Facilitate Agile Development and Delivery, ensuring smooth sprint execution
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Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams to ensure the roadmap aligns with technical capabilities and constraints
Key responsibilities
Product Development and Backlog Management
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Create and maintain a detailed software backlog with clear priorities aligned with Product Management and Software teams.
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Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria and work with development teams to ensure accurate implementation.
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Lead agile meetings like sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
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Become a subject matter expert, facilitate demos to different teams when necessary.
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Maintain software product documentation, accounting for regulatory and best practices.
Cross-functional Collaboration
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Work closely with development, marketing, sales, and quality teams to ensure smooth product development and launches.
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Facilitate product testing and validation to ensure technical requirements and user needs are met.
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Ensure timely delivery of features that meet quality standards and business goals.
Your profile
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3 – 5 years of Product Owner or Product Management, hands-on experience managing software development projects and working with engineering teams.
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Experience working in Agile environments, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and stakeholder management.
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Experience in software development, system architecture, APIs, cloud platforms, or DevOps. Prior experience as a developer, engineer, or technical business analyst is a plus.
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Proven ability to work closely with engineering, UX/UI, QA, and business teams to deliver technical products.
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Experience engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into technical requirements.
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Able to work in a multi-cultural environment, balancing the needs of different stakeholders.
Your skills
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Managing Atlassian Cloud, Azure DevOps, or similar
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Understanding of APIs, microservices, databases, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD pipelines.
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Understanding of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe frameworks.
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Problem solving and critical thinking, ability to break down complex technical issues and work with teams to find solutions.
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Strong communication skills, translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
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Influencing engineering teams, aligning stakeholders, and making trade-off decisions.
Academic
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English C1 + any other European languages
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Bachelors in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
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Certifications (Nice-to-Have):
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Atlassian certifications for Jira and Confluence
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Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
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SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (SAFe POPM)
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Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
