Product Owner at MWEB

Job description

Do you want to be the person who exceeds your potential?

• If you have a desire to succeed and drive your own career, Internet Solutions - MWEB offers you the opportunity to make that happen.
• Internet Solutions (IS) is South Africa’s most established and experienced Converged Communications Service Provider. Since 1993 IS have been providing end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services across the African continent. Internet Solutions is now also able to provide specific infrastructure facilities to customers, having received a full Electronic Communications Network Service (ECNS) license in 2009. MWEB was recently sold to IS as a going concern.
• As an MWEB Product Owner, you will be responsible for delivering the product features at the right time, every time!
• Working closely with a dynamic product management team, you will start by structuring and communicating a vision for your product and then testing this with various thought-leaders from around the organisation. Performing solid and pragmatic analysis into the business requirement is essential. This process will have you engage with each corner of MWEB, including Marketing, Sales, Technical Call Centres and others.
• From thereon, you will need to provide leadership, motivation and challenge a development team throughout the software development cycle. Continuously showing real business value and prioritising features based on ROI, you must find ways to reduce the time to market whilst still ensuring maximum quality,
• You will be responsible for accepting or rejecting the software, and make the call if it is viable to be released to MWEB’s customers.
• During the final testing, acceptance and adoption of the working software within MWEB is a key final requirement of the process.
• Not only is this role within the software development realm, but you will be key in continuously challenging and changing the paradigm to provide better processes and solutions for MWEB staff and customers.

Job Outputs

• Structure and communicate a product vision
• Initiate the project
• Engage and represent various business stakeholders
• Set clear goals for the development team to achieve
• Create, groom, prioritise and order the product backlog based on business value and ROI
• Demonstrate working software and facilitate an incremental and continuous feedback cycle between the development team and the business stakeholders until the product can be released to customers
• Determine acceptance tests and facilitate the execution thereof
• Compile and distribute information radiators which show transparent project progress
• Retrospect and seek ways to continuously improve the introduction of new software into the MWEB business
• Maintain various technical configurations of the production system environment
• Support the business with the launch of ad-hoc marketing and sales promotions
• Provide general technical support to Marketing, Sales and Product departments

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Deadline driven
• Excellent organisational, planning and presentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams (both virtual and dedicated resources)
• Proven leadership ability
• Decisive
• Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated
• Team-player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
• Methodical and cautious competencies required to work within the production system environment

Qualifications and Experience

• Tertiary education with a minimum of two years business analysis experience
• Experience in agile software development, especially in the Scum Product Owner role, will be highly advantageous
• Experience in working with technology or software-based products
• Proven track record in project management

 Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with Internet Solutions.