Product Owner

Summary

Join Employment Hero, a fast-growing SaaS unicorn, as a Product Owner within the Talent Marketplace team. You will be responsible for delivering the product vision, managing the backlog, representing customer interests, collaborating with various teams, and managing product squads. This role requires 3+ years of relevant experience in product ownership or management, proven success with agile development, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate effectively. Preferred qualifications include experience with SaaS products, two-sided marketplaces, and the HR/Recruitment space. Employment Hero offers a remote-first work environment, a generous home office budget, cutting-edge tools, reward programs, cashback offers, an employee share option program, and an annual global gathering.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in product ownership or management
• Proven success working with development teams using agile (Scrum preferred)
• Able to write well-defined specifications to clearly communicate expected product outcomes
• Track record of being able to critically analyse data samples (both qualitative and quantitative) and produce sensible insights to fuel product initiatives
• Able to challenge expectations and question the status quo on a day-to-day basis
• Hungry, creative, enthusiastic, and data-driven with a diverse skill set
• Experience validating ideas and generating user feedback through different customer research methodologies
• Proven commercial acumen with the ability to build financial models and execute on business drivers

Responsibilities

• Deliver the product vision, driving discovery, and translating vision to delivery and continuous improvement
• Monitor and adjust the product vision and roadmap while adhering to the core vision amidst constraints
• Strategically prioritise and maintain a user story backlog, balancing business goals, stakeholder expectations, and feasibility
• Represent customer and business interests in prioritisation and planning, and address customer feedback
• Work with designers, architects, developers, sales, and support teams to ensure feasible, viable, and well-planned product development and rollout
• Manage product squads, focusing them on achieving business objectives
• Clearly convey ideas, issues, and project status to stakeholders and ensure transparent communication of product requirements

Preferred Qualifications

You’ve worked in SaaS on products involving 2-sided marketplaces or within the HR and Recruitment space

Benefits

• A generous budget for your home office
• Cutting-edge tools and technology
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded
• Cashback offers and discounts on popular brands through our Swag app
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero
• Annual Global Gathering - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam and are excited to meet in Bali in September 2024