Product Owner: Short Term Insurance

2 weeks ago


Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**Role purpose**:
The Product Owner represents the business stakeholders and is the voice of the customer guiding individual DevOps teams, responsible for ensuring that the delivery team delivers value to the business according to the outcome vision
This role is responsible for the definition of customer-centric items or user stories from the capability/feature roadmap defined by the Product Manager, ranking and prioritizing them, and adding them to the team backlog
This role will work closely with the Release Train Engineer/Agile Programme Manager and Scrum Master in coordinating day to day activities such as sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile functions to ensure collaboration and effective delivery of user stories against commercial milestone objectives
Product owner works to Agile principles, and will be responsible for the prioritization and delivery of the backlog of change initiatives to maximize business benefit of the products and features we offer. The rote works closely with the team to develop user stories, acceptance criteria and full business benefits, and convey the vision onwards to our in-house Scrum teams, or, where required, to our Offshore development partners

**Your responsibilities will include**:
Own, drive, and focus the team on delivery of business value and content
Develop and define user stories / items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap defined by Product Managers
Rank and prioritize user stories / items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
Approve the final release plan and accept all deliverables against defined user stories and acceptance criteria
Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities, and engage stakeholders for communications and decision-making
Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
Acts as single point of business contact for the DevOps team
Manage the financial plan for the delivery team, providing forecasts

**Technical / professional qualifications**:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field
A minimum of 5 years’ experience successful delivery in Product Ownership (or equivalent role) across full product lifecycles, from MVP to marketable products in iterations, including support transition
Experience in successfully Leading and mentoring agile / DevOps teams in Large multi-team environments
Experience in agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Design and Behavioural Driven Design
Experience in successful delivery against financial / resource constraints
Experience in the use of analytics and AB / multivariate testing
Experience with requirements definition and use case modelling
Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry strongly preferred

**Core competencies, knowledge, and experience**:
Experience in Short Term Insurance product development and implementation
Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to minimize overhead tasks for the team and manage interdependences with other teams
Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to foster an inclusive team culture
Excellent business acumen and understanding of the role of the capability in contributing to business value
In-depth understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital. services market and emerging business and technology trends
A strong customer-centric focus, with an entrepreneurial and ROL mindset Ability to function with a high degree of autonomy
Strong financial management skills and acumen
Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure
Excellent verbal and written communications and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with the delivery team to deliver user stories
Flexible with planning and work estimation, managing and empowering the team (without needing to micromanage), able to continuously balance between the customer and commercial needs
Digital/software product ownership in large scale environments
User story definition and refinement
Expertise in Agile software development environment and methods
Market research, design thinking, and lean start-up methods; business modelling
Customer experience design of digital products and services
Analytics / AB / multivariate testing and related tools
Data-driven decision making

Closing date for Applications**:4 August 2023**

The base location for this role is, **Vodacom Campus, Midrand.**

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusio



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