Product Owner

2 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ABC Worldwide Full time
Product Owner Job Description

The Product Owner is a key member of the Agile Team responsible for defining the product vision and ensuring business alignment. This role requires strong collaboration with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize business objectives, while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the product.

Key Responsibilities
  • Collaboration with Business Stakeholders
    • Collaborate with business stakeholders to arrive at the vision, goals, priorities, and business objectives.
    • Ensure understanding and alignment of business needs and direction.
    • Craft the definition of Ready and Done with the team.
    • Build trust with business to make decisions around the product.
    • Work with business stakeholders at their level of detail and involvement.
    • Facilitate collaboration between the right stakeholders to ensure sound decision-making.
  • Defining the Product Vision, Goals, and Measurement
    • Bring together and take ownership of the product vision and communicate this to the team.
    • Map out customer journeys, business processes, and their associated performance metrics.
    • Determine business objectives.
    • Identify product domain boundaries and grow relevant product domain knowledge.
    • Ensure product build is in line with systems architecture.
    • Negotiate and take ownership of product goals.
    • Measure the inherent and commercial value created by the product over time, especially after deployments.
    • Ensure alignment between all business stakeholders and IT in vision and goals.
  • Managing the Product Backlog
    • Calculate/understand the value and risk of items and manage this accordingly.
    • Prioritize the product backlog in order of value, risk, or business importance in collaboration/consultation with business owners/stakeholders and the development team.
    • Ensure the backlog is visible to all stakeholders.
    • Actively involved in product backlog refinement (with the entire team and at times business).
    • Actively create clarity to the level required (based on context of the team) and leverage the team to create clarity too.
    • Guide and ensure clarity at least 2 sprints ahead of time for the sprints.
    • Balance the conflicting needs of all stakeholders across the business, product owners, IT, and any other stakeholders.
    • Negotiate change requests when required within the sprint.
  • Planning & Organising
    • Plan, organize, and collaborate to ensure future requirements from other teams are in place for delivery of dependent objectives/goals (while dependencies are a reality in our context).
    • Provide input and assessment of the Project Portfolio Management function.
    • Ensure alignment between teams by working closely with other Product Owners and understanding each other's priorities and providing support where required.
    • Manage expectation and delivery timelines with stakeholders across the business.
  • Team Management
    • Represent all business needs within the development team. This requires a level of trust to be developed with business and to be extended from business.
    • Identify overlaps between and across all business areas.
    • Bring the right stakeholders and expertise together as and when needed to collaborate with the team.
    • Building strong relationships, good trust, and accountability. Able to have crucial conversations with the team.
    • Collaborate with BAs on activities like story splitting, requirement clarification, and making sure functional and non-functional requirements are addressed.
    • Collaborate with other Product Owners and Project Managers on relevant dependencies and/or cross-functional feature sets.
    • Collaborate closely with the development team and various business stakeholders.
  • Acceptance Criteria and Release Pipeline
    • Help define acceptance criteria, ensuring that business is involved in this along with the team. This is helping define the definition of ready and done.
    • Accept or reject the work of the development team before declaring done. This involves bringing in business with UAT.
    • Effective release planning throughout the development process by deciding in which sequence features are to be released.
    • Accountable for the quality and delivery of the end product.
    Requirements
    • 4 years' experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or experience in leading an IT team.
    • Experience in a Retail and/or Financial Services environment.
    • Experience in managing a project through all the steps in the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
    • Experience in agile development practices.
    Qualifications
    • Grade 12.
    • Degree in IT or Engineering.
    • Certified Product Owner (CPO) – Highly beneficial.
    Functional Knowledge and Skills
    • Solid understanding of the product lifecycle.
    • In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, technical understanding of products, and up-to-date on industry standards and best practices.
    • Business domain knowledge.
    • Data manipulation and interpretation.
    • Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
    • Good facilitation skills.
    • Prioritisation skills.
    • Product Backlog Management.
    • Entrepreneurial Mind-set.
    • Ability to work collaboratively with business and various stakeholders is essential.
    • Stakeholder Management.
    • Value Maximisation.
    • Quality Maximisation.

ABC Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. Please send your latest CV and motivation to anthea@abcworldwide.com.

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