Senior Product Owner

Key responsibilities

• Gather Functional and non-Functional requirements, maintain and verify requirements as well.
• Manage Product Backlog: formulating the list of backlog items and prioritizing them as per the critical business objectives.
• Define Sprint Objectives: the product owner defines the suggested sprint objective, which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal.
• Review and approve the work done by the development team: the product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification.
• Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: the Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders.
• Backlog Refinement: ability to prioritize, enhance, and finalize the items with the team before the sprint planning.
• Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: the Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve.
• Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases.
• Participate in OKR planning.

Requirements

• Experience: At least 2 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst).
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible.

Skills requirements:

To execute tasks, technical understanding is required in the following areas:

• Requirements lifecycle.
• Product backlog management.
• Product development architecture.
• Software development.
• Scrum and Agile development methodologies.
• User experience principles.
• Communication Skills (Proficient in English).
• Decision-Making.

Nice to have:

• Coding and designing.

Organizational skills:

• Leadership: You will lead a team (without being a manager), therefore you must be able to demonstrate effective leadership techniques.
• Conflict Resolution: You will act as a mediator if/when conflict arises to ensure that the development stays on schedule.
• Professional Certification: PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement.

Conditions

We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

• Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
• Official employment in accordance with the laws of Cyprus and the EU, registration of family members.
• Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for 2 weeks).
• Company fitness corner in the office for employees.
• Opportunity to develop language skills and partial compensation for the cost of language classes.
• Birthday celebration present.
• Time for proper rest and 24 working days of Annual Vacation.
• Breakfasts and lunches in the office (partially paid by the company).

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