Product Owner

Summary

Join Sweed, a leading cannabis retail software company, as a fully remote Product Owner. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a product roadmap, conducting market research, defining and prioritizing features, managing the product backlog, and analyzing product performance. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager, technical understanding of the product, and experience with agile methodologies. Sweed offers flexible working hours, 20 working days of vacation, 3 sick days, and medical insurance after a 3-month probationary period. The company is a remote-first organization with a team of approximately 170 members. The role involves working with a smaller team of 8-12 individuals and collaborating with various stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager role
• Technical understanding of the product and the ability to communicate effectively with the development team
• Proven experience in a dynamically evolving product with constantly shifting priorities
• Familiarity with Kanban, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies
• Strong leadership and team management skills
• Ability to perform business analysis and project management
• Upper-Intermediate and higher level of English. You will need to communicate with the English-speaking part of the team, clients and write and read the documentation in English

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with the company's strategy and vision
• Conduct market and customer research to gather insights and inform product development decisions
• Define and prioritize product features based on customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility
• Manage the product backlog, ensuring it is up-to-date and prioritized based on business and customer impact
• Analyze product performance and customer feedback to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve products
• Perform independent business analysis of features
• Manage the team's daily operations, including hiring, motivation, and performance management

Preferred Qualifications

Additionally, you excel in creating exceptional products and driving metrics growth

Benefits

• Flexible working hours. Our working time zone is 09.00-15.00 (GMT), but it depends on the team, and can be flexible
• There is an opportunity to work fully remotely, we are a remote-first company, and we don't have offices
• 20 working days per year
• 3 days
• Medical insurance becomes available after the probation period
• We also offer equipment reimbursement for essential items such as laptops and additional equipment like monitors