Product Owner
Propellerhead
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇳🇿 New Zealand
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- As a Product Owner at Propellerhead, your primary purpose will be to ensure clarity on the next most valuable thing to deliver.
- This is a client-facing role, important to maintaining long-term relationships with our customers through continuous high-value delivery.
- As such, you will work closely with internal and client stakeholders to ensure both functional and commercial objectives are met.
- Build and groom the product backlog, ensuring it contains appropriate items, prioritised effectively, and that items at the top are ready for delivery.
- Clearly communicate product backlog items to the product delivery team to build a shared understanding of the problems and solutions.
- Ensure delivery teams work solely on funded backlog items, constraining product delivery as necessary.
- Work with stakeholders to create and prioritise valuable product deliverables with clear, measurable outcomes.
- Manage scope to deliver maximum value, while ensuring efficient use of resources.
- Evaluate whether a product deliverable achieved the desired outcome, making necessary adjustments based on feedback and results.
- Keep product delivery teams informed of upcoming work and broadly communicate relevant context and problems faced to build a shared understanding of the product direction.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a software development environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and principles.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks effectively.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with stakeholders to define and prioritise product features.
- Familiarity with product management tools and software.
- Remote candidates: Able to demonstrate a reliable work setup, including a high-quality camera, and stable high-speed internet connection, to ensure consistent and quality involvement in virtual meetings.
Benefits
- Contribute to interesting, diverse, and commercially minded work for well-respected clients.
- Join a Developer-led organisation full of world-class colleagues.
- Join a culture of learning and collaboration.
- Fortnightly Developer knowledge sharing session.
- Work from the comfort of your home or relocate to New Zealand and work within our beautifully designed office
- Propellerhead is an equal opportunity workplace which is free from discrimination.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Agile methodologiesproduct backlog managementproduct deliverables prioritizationscope managementanalytical skillsproblem-solving skills
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillstask managementrelationship management