Product Owner

Company Description

Symbio (ASX: SYM) is a software company changing the way the world communicates.

Headquartered in Sydney, Symbio powers billions of calls and messages each year, owns networks in 3 countries and employs over 450 staff worldwide.

**Job Description**:
**Please note this position can be located in either Sydney or Melbourne.**

As a **Product Owner**, you will be responsible for gathering feature requests, scheduling releases and coordinating sprints. To be successful in this role, the incumbent must be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.

Reporting to the Lead Product Owner, the Product Owner will work with other Product Owners, Commercial Segment Teams, and the Delivery Team.

**What you will do as a Product Owner**:

- Contribute to High Performance Team environment
- Actively share knowledge with your entire team
- Lead discussions with Stakeholders in-order to build better knowledge of Symbio Architecture and Product related processes.
- Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders & that they are kept informed of the initiative progress
- Work with Architects to understand the scope of upcoming architectural work, and assist with decision-making and sequencing with the Delivery Lead
- Coordinate the product release to market. Performs system/product demo to key program stakeholders
- Act as the internal customer representative and ensure the product is strongly aligned with customers and the market.
- Possess vertical slicing skills to achieve just in time, incremental value to the customer
- Ability to scope work required for all involved teams and align sprint planning across teams to achieve the user outcome.
- Identify and document all potential risks, assumptions and dependencies for all initiatives. Keeps risks, assumptions and dependencies updated throughout a project
- Can articulate a simple, clear, and compelling product vision.

**Qualifications**:
**What you will need to succeed**:

- 3 years minimum exp working as a Product Owner or in a similar role within IT/Telecommunications industry
- Experience in iteration and sprint planning
- Experience developing user stories, process flows, detailed requirements, acceptance criteria and other documentation
- Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
- Ability to work with stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

**What's it like to work here?**
We strive for a healthy, inclusive and flexible workplace. We nurture diversity, continuous learning in the latest technology and thinking. Innovative benefits include parental leave for mums and dads, remote working, and a comfortable, fun working environment with social events, prayer rooms, pool tables and fully stocked bar

If this sounds like the next great step in your career, we'd love to hear from you.

Additional Information
**Life at Symbio**

Symbio is committed to a strong culture that is diverse and inclusive and we encourage our employees to bring their whole self to work.

We ensure our employees have equal access to a range of learning and development opportunities, and encourage everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage to embrace these opportunities, enabling them to develop themselves and their career.

Our employee's happiness, health and wellbeing is important at Symbio. We provide all employees with flexible working options to ensure that work doesn't compromise life outside Symbio and also supports their wellbeing. We regularly enhance our employee benefits such as an employee share gift plan, paid birthday leave, up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for both parents as the primary carer, reward and recognition programs and social clubs.

At Symbio, our diverse backgrounds and unique experiences allow us to continue to innovate and create the brands, networks and technologies to power the future of global communications.