Product Owner - Product Owner

As a Product Owner you will be responsible for defining and prioritizing features and functionality for our software products. You will act as a bridge between our development team and the customer, ensuring that the product aligns with customer needs and business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Vision: Develop a clear and compelling product vision, aligned with the company's strategic objectives, and communicate this vision to the development team.

Requirement Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, to understand their needs and gather requirements.

Prioritization: Prioritize features and user stories based on business value, customer feedback, and market trends.

Backlog Management: Create and maintain a well-organized product backlog in Jira, ensuring that it is groomed and ready for development sprints.

Sprint Planning: Participate in sprint planning sessions with the development team, providing a clear understanding of user stories and requirements.

User Story Definition: Create detailed user stories with acceptance criteria, ensuring that they are ready for development.

Iteration Review: Participate in sprint reviews, inspecting the product increment and making decisions on further iterations.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with designers, developers, and QA teams, providing clear guidance and feedback on product development.

Customer Feedback: Collect and analyze customer feedback to make data-driven decisions and prioritize product improvements.

Market Research: Stay updated on industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies to make informed product decisions.

Design Collaboration: Work with designers using Figma to create and refine product design and UI/UX elements.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in a SaaS or software development environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Proficiency in using project management and issue tracking tools, particularly Jira.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Experience with Figma or other design collaboration tools is a plus.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.

Characteristics:

• Driven and entrepreneurial, loves big challenges, takes responsibility, drives things forward
• Humble and curious - always wants to learn
• Creative problem solver with strong analytically skills
• Good communicator
• Team player

Skills

• Scrum / Kanban/ agile methods
• Software: Jira, Figma, MS Office (Excel, PPT)
• Excellent English language skills, both written and spoken.
• Strong motivation to always learn more.

Reach out to learn more:

My client is looking to begin the interview process ASAP with limited interview spots this and next week, so don't miss out.

This is a brief description of the role, for the full information, simply apply to the role and I will call you to discuss.

Twitter: @_JeffersonFrank

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-heron-aa8676138/

Email: g.heron@frankgroup.com

Phone: +358 753 266586

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Please Note: This is a permanent role. This role is for Finnish residents only. This role does not offer Sponsorship. You must have the right to work in Finland with no restrictions. Some of our roles may be subject to successful background/security checks.

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I will call you to discuss your skill-set further, there may be other roles I am working on that you may be suited for.

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