Product Owner Saas

**Product Owner - Global Platform Team**:
Join this pioneering Global Platform Team as a Product Owner, where you'll harness your technical background and problem-solving prowess to steer value delivery across international landscapes. Transitioning from a software development role, you'll be the linchpin in transforming technical requirements into tangible services, ensuring our solutions resonate globally.

You will be a tech-savvy innovator ready to pivot from coding to commanding product visions You'll be the crucial conduit between the developers and product visionaries, ensuring that solutions not only launch but soar in user circles.

Thrive on challenges? Revel in user success?

Your technical prowess is the key to steering the product's journey from concept to customer favorite. Embrace this role where your problem-solving zeal and tech expertise unite to shape the future of these products

**The opportunity and what you will be doing**:
We are seeking a Product Owner with a technical background to join this Global Platform Team:

- Lean-Agile - Growth Mindset, Sustainable Delivery, Product Focus, Relentless Improvement,
- Support the teams to translate a vision for their products and services into tangible deliverables,
- Maintain product backlogs/roadmaps, support estimation & forecasting, and manage priorities,
- Assist the team in identifying and helping to resolve blockers/dependencies with other teams, including identifying/managing any risks or issues that will prevent the successful delivery of an initiative,
- Collaborate closely with the Chief Technology Officer, Product Management, and technical teams to define, prioritise, maintain, and navigate the platform's developmental directions,
- Assist the Senior Product Manager in areas that need help and additional capacity, including preparing management presentations & business communication, and team building activities,
- Assist the team with planning and communicating releases with stakeholders and other teams,
- Ensure the adoption of new services & features and implement strategies to improve adoption,
- Leverage the Scaled Agile Framework to deliver value in Iterations and Program Increments,
- Ensure clear acceptance criteria and examples are available providing guidance and advice to developers when clarifying features and stories,
- Review completed stories and iterations and agree on completion or further work required,
- Help the team determine (and anticipate in advance) what enabler work is required for a feature,
- Participate in demos, reviews, retrospectives, refinements, sprint planning & other team sessions, and conduct additional backlog refinement as necessary,
- Co-ordinate support priorities and work with the team to help resolve issues, and undertake initial investigations on new issues to gather requirements, steps to replicate, and determine priority,
- Update stakeholders on progress, roadblocks, and new directions, and negotiate as required,
- Help to identify & implement process improvements in the software development life cycle,
- Technical awareness of RESTful API design, Queuing, SQL & No-SQL Databases, and standards.

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- Proven experience (3yrs+) in managing or working on technical projects/products,
- Skilled communicator - Able to take high level visions and clarify and translate into requirements & stories suitable for completion by developers and work with QA & Devs to verify they are done,
- Ability to understand and write technical & product requirements and standards and liaise with stakeholders, developers, QA, and solution architects to get everybody aligned,
- Experience with Jira and Confluence, ClickUp, or other similar systems,
- Experience with distributed systems and architecture (including RESTful APIs, Microservices Architecture, databases, and queuing),
- Passionate about the customers' experience and constantly improving products,
- Ability to professionally liaise with other teams,
- Ability to facilitate conversations, meetings, and events, including prep and follow-up,
- Well organised and committed to transparency and tracking,
- Compassionate toward developers understanding the constraints and realities of software development with complex systems,
- Passionate about technology and people.
- Strong attention to detail

**Highly desirable if you have**:

- SAFe PO/PM Certification, or other similar/relevant certification
- 2yrs+ experience in a dedicated product owner/manager role in an Agile environment,
- Prior experience as a Senior Software Developer, QA, Tech Lead or Solutions** **Architect role