Product Owner – Onsite Experience
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Senior Product Owner
Droids On Roids
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇵🇱 Poland
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Senior
About the role
- Work closely with the business and the Product Team!
- Consulting, advising and helping clients in crystallizing the product vision and defining requirements and needs,
- Responsible for development of the product - balancing business goals, budget, and delivery constraints, risk and scope management,
- Responsible for stakeholder communication and influence - aligning teams and sponsors on product goals, priorities and dependencies,
- Working with KPIs: % of Product Discovery Completion, Roadmap vs Core Product Path reflection, number of “dependency-free” sprints refined in advance, Scope Net Difference (SP), % of Release-Ready features, NPS & stakeholder feedback,
- Making sure that it’s clear:
- who the product is for, why people would want to buy and use it,
- what the product is and what makes it stand out,
- what the business goals are and why is it worthwhile for the client’s company to invest in it,
- Supporting clients and product teams with assigning optimal product metrics together with target values, allowing to assess the effects and level of success coming from a product,
- Preparing crucial documentation that is necessary to start development of the product: user story maps, product assumptions and roadmap,
- Working with Business Development and Development Team on preparing solutions for clients which bring better value for final product,
- Defining and managing internal business processes, in particular, implementing the Product Owner role into the organization,
- Taking part in Product Design Workshops.
- Responsibilities:
- Backlog & Roadmap Management:
- Delivering and maintaining the roadmap and product strategy,
- Maintaining a prioritized and updated product backlog aligned with business objectives,
- Ensuring the roadmap reflects the core product path.
- Delivery Alignment & Scope Control:
- Maintaining and delivering the Sprint Plan,
- Tracking and managing scope creep,
- Ensuring dependencies are refined at least two (two-weeks long), optimally three sprints in advance to enable smooth delivery.
- Stakeholder & User Collaboration:
- Working closely with sponsors, users, and business teams to gather priorities, dependencies, and data insights,
- Ensuring features align with user needs through analytics and feedback loops,
- Managing stakeholders' expectations.
- Product Success Measurement & Improvement:
- Monitoring product discovery progress (% of product understanding achieved),
- Enhancing team and stakeholder NPS/feedback on product strategy and execution,
- Ensuring business analytics drive decisions by integrating insights into a product dashboard.
Requirements
- At least 5+ years of commercial experience as a Product Owner in a software development company (ideally with mobile apps development),
- Proven number of products launched in the agile way (also previous experience working in agile project management methodologies is important to us),
- Strong product ownership with proven experience in managing stakeholders expectations,
- Knowledge and experience in using modelling tools (e.g. UML or BPMN),
- Strategic prioritization and decision-making skills,
- Data-driven product thinking and a proactive, adaptable way of working,
- Risk and scope management skills, so you are able to prevent unnecessary scope expansion while ensuring a valuable product,
- Proven experience in gathering and managing client and stakeholders requirements and needs in complex projects,
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation skills including technical writing skills (might be helpful working with Development Team on a daily basis),
- Strong organizational skills (you will be cooperating with few teams at the same time)
- Practical knowledge of Jira / Confluence and versioning,
- Fluent command of written and spoken English and Polish (at least B2/C1 level).
- Nice to have:
- Scrum Product Owner certification,
- Knowledge of Google Analytics.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Product OwnershipAgile Project ManagementRisk ManagementScope ManagementData-Driven Product ThinkingStakeholder Requirements GatheringModeling ToolsUser Story MappingProduct MetricsProduct Discovery
Soft skills
Strategic PrioritizationDecision-MakingCommunication SkillsPresentation SkillsOrganizational SkillsAdaptabilityProactivityCollaborationInfluenceFeedback Management
Certifications
Scrum Product Owner Certification