Junior Product Owner at Flash Group

Flash is growing!! We are looking to recruit a Junior Product Owner who will be responsible for driving development activities relating to product implementations, integrations and enhancements. To facilitate an Agile mindset within a tech environment to meet high-quality product deliverables, in order to increase company turnover in line with business strategy.

Requirements:

• Matric.
• 3 - 5 years proven experience as a Junior Product Owner, Tech Support Lead, or in a related financial services/tech environment.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience working with a Tech team.

Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication
• Excellent at problem-solving
• Strong excel skills
• Proactive
• Inquisitive and analytical
• Collaboration
• Market knowledge
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Finisher

Attributes:

• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, high-stress environment 
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly the finer details
• Analytical approach
• Must be an excellent communicator and collaborator, capable of aligning people, focusing efforts and motivating a team.
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships with the development & system teams, other internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage numerous work streams simultaneously
• Ability to fully commit to a task until completion
• Innovative
• Decisive
• Proactive
• Self-starter
• Trustworthy and reliable
• Logical
• Analytical
• Organised

Responsibilities:

• The Product Owner should be able to understand the informal market, retail space and future trends to make sound decisions.
• Align business and development team and other technical / systems stakeholders to the developmental roadmap.
• Plan, review, write specifications and requirement documentation to optimize product performance.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized product backlog and roadmap for implementation based on business and team strategy.
• Develop detailed specifications and user stories for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams with the appropriate sense of urgency to ensure successful product releases.
• Act as the primary technical contact for maintenance queries related to the product.
• Research and keep up to date with technology trends.
• Proactively review and resolve errors & failures.
• Ongoing management of existing products and related projects.
• Responsible for market research and challenging and/or proving strategic direction with insights and trends from on the ground
• Researching, identifying and determining the viability of product specific concepts
• Take product enhancements from strategy sign off, through development, to launch
• Launch product enhancements internally and externally, together with the relevant departments (collaboration)
• Produce clear product documentation
• Implementation of and measurement of the growth strategies
• Ensure internal and external communication
• Contribution to ongoing management of the product
• Reporting and analysis of product progress and performance