Remote Product Owner

Summary

Join Deel, a global leader in international payroll and compliance, and contribute to our mission of connecting companies with talent worldwide. We offer a dynamic and diverse work environment with opportunities for professional growth. As a Product Owner/Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in translating business requirements into actionable work items, managing product backlogs, and ensuring on-time delivery. You will collaborate closely with development teams, business stakeholders, and technical management to achieve business milestones. This role requires strong project management skills, experience in agile software development, and a deep understanding of Kanban and Agile methodologies. Deel provides competitive compensation and benefits, including remote work flexibility and stock grant opportunities.

Requirements

• Excellent project management skills and previous experience as a Product Owner/Manager, particularly within an agile software development environment, is favourable
• A good understanding of the Kanban framework and Agile methodologies
• Knowledge on creating specifications and tickets
• Good product ownership skills, including managing product backlogs, managing business milestones and ensuring tickets have relevant level of detail

Responsibilities

• Ensures customer excellence
• Lives the company’s values and service standards with regards to customer interaction
• Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company’s quality requirements
• Takes personal accountability for service excellence
• Adheres to the companies work standards
• Understand their role within the organisation from an information security perspective and commit to protecting the organisation’s security information assets
• Ensures cost savings and efficiencies in area of accountability
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations
• Prepare personal development plans in conjunction with manager and implement in line with business requirements
• Collaborate with Technical Management, Business Stakeholders as well as Technical Teams to create a clear vision of our business milestones
• Work with business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure that Support tickets are handled within SLA’s or communicate as early as possible where this will not be possible
• Work with stakeholders and development teams to translate business requirements into Work Items in Azure
• Act as Primary liaison between development team and Business
• Participate in grooming sessions with the Project Manager and Development teams to ensure work items meet the defined definition of ready and where not possible revert to BA and Product Manager to gather addition requirements / detail
• Translate the business requirements received from the BA’s and Product Manager into understandable work items for execution by the development team
• Work with the Product Manager and Project Manager to keep Work Items up to date and relevant
• Manage internal stakeholder expectations with regards to the delivery of the product roadmap
• Manage backlog prioritisation in conjunction with the Product Manager
• Drive planning sessions to ensure product road map delivery and communicate to internal stakeholders if product road map delivery is in jeopardy and identify solutions to mitigate risks
• Estimate and plan in conjunction with the head of development, product delivery resource requirements
• Track and iterate product requirements over the development lifecycle
• Build out self-service reporting and data analytics capability to give visibility of how development is tracking against Business Milestones

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong IP on the PaySpace platform highly advantageous
• Proficient comprehension of developmental terminology (advantageous)

Benefits

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available