Technical Product Owner at Boardroom Appointments

About the Job

Full job description

As a Technical Product Owner, you will be responsible for learning the ins and outs of discovering, designing and delivering elegant digital products, including:

• Participating in product discovery (UX research, user testing, opportunity mapping)
• Gathering, illustrating and scoping feature requirements
• Documenting products and requirements
• Defining metrics, and analysing the performance of products and their features
• Participating in the software development process (we use Scrum primarily)

Experience and skills set:

• As this is an Mid-level role, we place emphasis on the Individual Competencies, Aptitude and Attitude rather than qualifications and experience

Advantageous requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of working experience in a Product Owner team environment, or in a related role such as Business Analyst, QA, Scrum Master or Developer.
• Relevant courses taken e.g. CSPO certification, Product Management courses, Business Analysis courses, Project Management courses
• Tertiary Qualification

What you will do:

Assist in documenting product requirements

• Assist with eliciting requirements from project stakeholders
• Understand and illustrate requirements by means of producing relevant artefacts, including context diagrams, process flows, data flows, C4 diagrams and other relevant artefacts
• Document and explain impact of requirements on the high level architecture of systems
• Analyse software documentation (e.g. API documentation)
• Understand and communicate a software systems technical stack at a high level
• Clearly define project context deliverables and outcomes
• Write comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria

Assist in managing development projects

• Work with technical product owners, developers and Scrum Master to guide production of time estimates for project work
• Plan iterations with Scrum Master
• Create and maintain product backlog
• Run iteration planning and retrospective meetings with Scrum Master
• Plan and schedule resources with Scrum Master
• Manage iterations
• Ensure that development work runs smoothly
• Coordinate development iterations across all project teams
• Manage quality output

Assist in managing of internal relationships and clients

• Run professional meetings with product stakeholders, where required
• Build trusting relationships with clients and internal team
• Assist in managing client expectations

Assist in Manage product lifecycle

• Work with product team in the ongoing enhancement and improvement of the product
• Suggest product enhancements and improvements
• Assist with the handling of operation and product support requirements where necessary

Individual Competencies

• Collaborative team player
• Ability to manage behavioural impact
• Critical thinker and natural problem solver
• Organised and able to work under pressure
• Flexibility towards consistent change
• Technical and business acumen
• Curiosity