JOB OVERVIEW
Plan A Technologies is looking for an experienced Product Owner. This individual engages with clients to implement technology solutions to drive customer value by determining the requirements of a product/technology, and communicating them clearly to the delivery team and stakeholders. The ideal candidate can break through complexity and ambiguity while creating a shared understanding.
The Product Owner will actively work with clients and internal teams to facilitate discovery sessions to distill key needs and collaborate with strategy, design, engineering, and technology teams to translate those needs into project requirements. The product owner will have experience with clients in discovering, defining, and managing requirements. This is a fast-paced job with room for significant career growth.
Please note: you must have at least 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner to be considered for this role. Experience with payments and or mobile experience will be a plus.
JOB RESPONSIBILITY
Elicit and organize requirements into a workable backlog.
Translate, simplify, and manage business requirements with the client/product owner and write independent user stories leveraging agile frameworks.
Facilitate the estimation of user stories along with the delivery team.
Facilitate Scrum events while inspiring efficient teamwork and effective decision-making.
Communicate efficiently to ensure the backlog is clearly understood by the delivery/scrum team.
Handle requirement changes and negotiate prioritization amongst different stakeholders.
Partner with the delivery team to translate the user story and product requirements into a QA testing framework.
Collaborate with the product team to facilitate product vision definition sessions to determine stakeholder needs.
Assist with developing roadmaps and business case documentation with teammates and partners.
Excellent Agile framework knowledge, able to work with a product manager as his/her proxy.
Work with the other disciplines across the organization to plan and track effective delivery.
Collaborate with multiple business units on requirements and dependencies across all products.
EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
10+ years of professional experience and 5+ years of experience as a product owner, having held the role for the last few years.
Experience with payment systems and or the casino gaming industry.
Expertise with requirements, estimations, roadmaps, and documentation.
Solid understanding of the Scrum Framework and principles of Agility.
Deep understanding of software lifecycle development disciplines - Project Management, Requirements Management, Analysis & Design, Quality Assurance & Testing, Implementation, Deployment, Configuration & Change Management.
Experience with a variety of facilitation techniques.
Understanding of technical practices associated with Software Development (DevOps, CI/CD, test automation).
Knows the basics of product management/product thinking.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
Initiative and drive to do great things.
ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS
Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.
Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.
Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.
Benefits: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, Brand New Laptop, and other goodies.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
