Product Owner

We are recruiting a Product Owner to play an important role within the company, working across the organisation to manage the vision, direction and overall delivery of Hypertrade’s core products.

The role will span a number of core areas such as: overseeing product delivery / scrum management, acting as a core stakeholder between customers and delivery teams, setting product roadmaps and backlog assessments for the company.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining the product roadmap, which outlines the long-term vision for the product and the short-term priorities for the development team.
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories and acceptance criteria's
• Setting and refining the product vision for Hypertrade
• Turning data insights into products with actionable outcomes
• Acting as the customers voice and converting their needs and requirements into features
• Communicating product releases and release notes to customers
• Testing and validating hypotheses with customers on new features and releases
• Acting as the key liaison between management team, customers and the delivery team to set the priorities on delivery
• Prepare, plan and anticipate customers needs
• Oversee the development stages of features, communicating and planning for hurdles and successes
• Maintain a healthy product backlog and categorised according to business value
• Schedule regular product based meeting such as discovery and grooming sessions with relevant team members
• Create and maintain product based KPIs and OKR’s with all team members

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience working as a product owner or product manager in a technology company
• Understanding and insight into retail management and shoppers experience
• A solid understanding of setting a product vision for a teams product
• The ability to collaborate with prospective users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• To be able to effectively create, manage and update a product roadmap - aligned to a product vision
• Experience in all stages of a product creation, from ideation to full development
• Solid experience of creating, managing and setting user stories across multiple styles of product delivery
• Experience of working with a company management team to explain the value of a feature and to be able to say no to a feature request
• Experience of working within a cross functional team using scrum for effective product delivery