Product Owner at Ecentric Payment Systems

Job Description

• Deliver against the product’s vison, goals and roadmap;
• Work closely with the Product Manager to define the product roadmap and give input into the product vision and strategy;
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria;
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks;
• Ensure that product delivery is on time and within budget;
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders;
• Maintain the product backlog (roadmap items, incident reports & enhancement requests) and prioritise the backlog;
• Oversee the product development team to create a strong product;
• Manage the Product support team;
• Supervise and advise the scrum team to meet software expectations;
• Nurture ideas and solutions to existing customer problems;
• Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology;
• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance to evaluate future investment;
• Communicate effectively with team members and Product Managers to achieve product goals;
• Extract and retrieve information and data sets to improve upon software;
• Schedule and lead meetings to identify issues and fixes for recurring production / support issues;
• Participate on and/or lead client requirement sessions; and
• Close involvement and interaction with product development, architects, product managers, support/services, partners and clients.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in a technical or information science domain;
• 5+ years experience as a product owner in the industry;
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and process;
• In-depth understanding of industry market conditions and trends;
• Successful track record of developing products within deadlines; and
• Relevant payments industry knowledge advantageous.