Product Owner

Summary

Join IOHK as a Product Owner for the Lace Wallet mobile product! You will drive development, ensuring alignment with the product vision and roadmap. Collaborate with engineering, design, QA, and stakeholders to define priorities, create user stories, and deliver features enhancing user satisfaction. This role demands a deep understanding of mobile development, user-centric design, and agile practices. You'll shape the mobile user experience, balancing technical feasibility with business goals. Success requires strong communication, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making skills. The position offers remote work and various benefits.

Requirements

• Proven track record of delivering successful mobile products (iOS and Android) in an agile development environment
• Strong understanding of the mobile product lifecycle, including requirements gathering, development, testing, release, and ongoing optimization
• Experience creating and managing a product backlog with clear user stories, prioritization techniques, and acceptance criteria
• Familiarity with mobile UX/UI principles and a user-centered approach to product development
• Experience monitoring and analyzing usability metrics (e.g., user adoption, retention, engagement) and translating insights into actionable improvements
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, QA, and marketing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate product vision and priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, postHog, or similar product management tools

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Head of Product to define and execute the product strategy for the Lace mobile wallet
• Develop and maintain a prioritized product backlog, ensuring clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and alignment with product goals
• Partner closely with engineering, design, and QA teams to plan sprints, refine requirements, and deliver mobile features on time and to a high standard
• Translate customer and stakeholder feedback into actionable features, improvements, and enhancements for the mobile platform
• Drive the definition of mobile-specific features that prioritize performance, usability, security, and user engagement
• Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks for the Lace mobile product
• Monitor, analyze, and incorporate feedback from product metrics related to usability, performance, and engagement to guide ongoing improvements and prioritize features
• Serve as the voice of the user, advocating for customer needs and ensuring user-centric product decisions
• Collaborate with marketing, customer support, and business teams to communicate product updates, gather insights, and align on go-to-market strategies
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across engineering, leadership, and external partners to ensure smooth product execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Business, Computer Science, or Product Management
• Demonstrated familiarity with blockchain, fintech, or decentralized technologies

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO