Junior Product Owner

DESCRIPTION:

We are currently looking for a Junior Product Owner to join our team, and help us develop the server-side of the Innovative Lottery SaaS Platform.
In this role, you will be working closely both with board members, stakeholders, and our development team. Your main responsibility will be to be a kind of bridge between the world of business and the world of development, collecting stakeholders requirements, smoothly translating them into technical words and helping developers get them into code.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Gathering, evaluating, and analyzing business and user requirements

• Building, maintaining and configuring properly defined and detailed epics & user stories that follow product strategy

• Maintaining our product's backlog and releases plan

• Following long-term vision for product evolution

• Making product development status and progress visible to necessary stakeholders and realizing their ROI

• Managing project/product scope, schedule, dependencies, communication, and stakeholders

• Communicating with solid arguments the product's plans, issues, and general insights to different stakeholders

• Keeping an eye for the bigger picture

• Close cooperation with UX team

• Negotiating as well as compromising when and where needed

• Running sprints, scrum rituals

• Ensuring that the team is on the right track at all times

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS:

• The First experience in an independent IT product management position

• Feel for product prototyping & UX design, enough to manage UX & graphic designers so that our products are user friendly and beautiful

• Ability to decompose a high-level concept into business requirements and concrete product backlog

• Strong project management skills (experience with Agile methodology would be a plus)

• Great interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrated by the ability to communicate project progress and results in a clear and interesting way

• Fluent English in speech and writing