Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary:
The Product 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 responsibility includes defining and prioritizing the product backlog, ensuring the project team delivers a valuable product to our customers.
Job Description:
Product Strategy
- 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 the market trends and customer needs to shape the product direction
Client Project Delivery
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and resources
- Lead project teams and ensure effective communication and collaboration
- Develop and execute project plans, timelines, and resource allocation
- Identify and mitigate project risks and issues
- Ensure project deliverables meet quality and customer requirements.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and projects
- Ensure effective communication and collaboration between project teams, stakeholders, and customers
- Make data-driven decisions to drive project and product success
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
- Responsible of 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
- Ensures that user stories are concise, understandable and actionable for the development team
- Leads sprint planning sessions to select user stories for each sprint based on the team’s velocity
- Leads daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Build process flows/decision framework using tools similar to BPMN and DMN
- Create mock-ups and work with UX on design
- Define acceptance criteria for user stories, ensure the project team understands the expected outcome.
Team Collaboration
- Communicate with stakeholders: Act as a connection point between technology specialists and business end users to facilitate the design and modification of systems 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 the development of marketing, communications, and training in support of the prioritized programs
- Provide project health status to upper management.
- Provide knowledge transfer of product to the Customer Success team
Skills
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 a process or system to align processes with changing business conditions and new products and service offerings.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge:
- Project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid)
- Product development life cycles
- Business operations and processes
- Market trends and customer needs
- Financial management and budgeting
- Risk management and mitigation
- Quality assurance and control
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Leadership and team management
- Stakeholder management
- Product ownership and management
- Prioritization and decision-making
- Data analysis and interpretation
Skills:
- Project planning and execution
- Product backlog management
- Prioritization and decision-making
- Team leadership and management
- Communication and stakeholder management
- Risk management and mitigation
- Budgeting and financial management
- Quality assurance and control
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Collaboration and negotiation
- Problem-solving and conflict resolution
