Product owner | Location: Spain

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: European Union

Description

The Product Owner is responsible for engaging with customers to collect and organize requirements for the solution to be built. As an essential member of our agile scrum teams, the Product Owner has the ability to understand and document the problem rather than focusing on the solution, leaving that to the team.

 At the moment, we are only considering candidates based in Spain. 

Key Responsibilities

• Collect requirements from the customer
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and Engineering manager to plan development sequence
• Manage the product backlog (epics, user stories, defects)
• Participate in sprint ceremonies (daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning, internal reviews, stakeholder reviews, retrospective)
• Prepare user stories for grooming/estimation sessions
• Prioritize backlog for the release and for business value in advance of sprint planning
• Schedule and lead requirement clarification sessions with the customer throughout the development cycle
• Available to the development team to answer questions regarding customer’s needs and the customer’s view of how the product is being implemented
• Accept user stories in compliance with the definition of done
• Lead bi-weekly demonstration of completed features to a customer
• Manage customer user acceptance testing
• Create functional documentation
• Manage trade-offs to meet project deadlines
• Identify and manage risks
• Ongoing communication with Scrum Master / Project Manager

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Able to plan and communicate the product roadmap to internal/external stakeholders
• Takes initiative to manage, prioritize, and anticipate customer needs
• Understands what is most important to deliver next
• Effective at managing competing priorities and/or projects