Product Owner @ Apptad

• Backlog Management:

• • Develop and manage a comprehensive product backlog, ensuring it reflects the product vision and priorities.
  • Break down complex projects and features into smaller, manageable components, with clear and concise user stories.
  • Prioritize the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and stakeholder needs, maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Ensure that development teams always have an adequate amount of clear and actionable tasks, facilitating efficient workflow.

Product Development:

• • Lead agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, review, demo, and retrospectives.
  • Define acceptance criteria and ensure they're met during testing phases, refining user stories and backlog items as needed.

QA & Performance Monitoring:

• • Work with the QA department testing projects as required including documentation of Test Strategies, Test Cases and Test Results
  • Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and user feedback to determine feature success and areas for improvement.
  • Adjust product strategies based on insights derived from real-time user data.

Documentation & Communication:

• • Prepare and maintain clear and concise product documentation, including user guides and system requirements.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for all aspects of your product, including updates and changes.
  • Effectively communicate progress to senior leadership

• Additional Job Description

Additional Job Description

Must Have:

• • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong analytical skills, ability to grasp new concepts quickly and adapt to situations.
  • Strong time management skills, ability to work under pressure and ability/willingness to learn.
  • Proven track record in gathering definition and specification of requirements and excellent documentation skills producing Business Requirements, Functional Requirement or User Stories with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Sound understanding of the software development lifecycle models and methodologies.
  • Flexible to work in shift that has partial overlap with North America.

Key Job Functions/Responsibilities

• • Manage the requirements walk-through with Development prior to commencement of coding
  • Manage the requirements walk-through with QA prior to commencement of testing
  • Identify potential risks to project deliverables and suggest and manage risk mitigation strategy
  • Analyze conflicting requirements from different users, prioritize them, and develop business-oriented software requirements
  • Resolve any oversights or ambiguities in the original specification
  • Review the finished product with customers and confirm that all business requirements have been met

Basic Skill Level Requirements

Education:

• • Bachelors degree in a related field (e.g., business, computer science, engineering)
  • Training in system integration life cycle methodologies

Experience:

• • 3-5 years experience in building SaaS products with similar role in an agile environment

Skills/Tools:

• • Expertise in following a SDLC process and a continuous improvement advocate during a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) as well as project methodologies, including waterfall and Agile.
  • Testing skills including creating business test cases and building test plans
  • Seasoned at daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog prioritization, user story preparation and demos.
  • Interpersonal skills including building consensus, negotiation and facilitation with leadership
  • Strong communication skills, business writing, developing and delivering presentations
  • Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
  • Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, flowchart applications