Tech Product Owner

Summary

Join Mindera's world-class team as a Product Owner with a strong technical background. You will lead a team of developers, utilizing Agile methodologies and SDLC expertise, to create solutions for a fintech project. In this role, you will be involved in the entire product lifecycle, from gathering requirements to working with stakeholders to ensure progress and alignment. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients and business stakeholders. The position requires 5+ years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams and ideally includes prior fintech experience. International travel may be required (0%-15%).

Requirements

• 5+ years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams in the role of Product Owner, or Product Manager
• Ability to coordinate schedules across multiple time zones
• Effective communication skills
• Proven track record of management skills in areas such as conflict resolution, multi-reporting, roadmap planning and backlog management
• A software engineering background with the ability to comfortably speak in technical jargon
• Proven ability to analyse product use cases and requirements from all points of the SDLC, including the architecture, development, testing, and deployment phases (Note: you will not be required to provide architectural or coding solutions, but you must be comfortable participating in discussions about these topics and influencing and providing input from a business and client requirements standpoint)

Responsibilities

• Mentor the team as an Agile advocate and continuous improvement processes
• Manage conflicts and impediments if/as they arise and coach the team on managing them
• Ensure all stakeholders are up to date on the team's progress and deliverables status by maintaining an open and honest communications
• Provide clear reports with different specifications for different audiences
• Leverage your prior technical/coding experience to triage development and QA tickets based on business and customer priorities
• Own and supervise the product backlog, story writing, project roadmap and dependencies
• Translate the product features into well-defined product requirements including features, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work with development teams, software architects and business stakeholders to collaborate, set and communicate release schedules, dates and scope
• Ensuring your team’s delivery against the agreed plan
• Influencing the product vision definition and break it into smaller and incremental deliverables
• Assist in the identification of market opportunities
• Planning and executing the end-to-end product development lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally previous experience on fintech industry

Benefits

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers