Product Owner

Why we are recommending

• Exness is an international Fintech company that has been operating on the international market for many years.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and analysis of product metrics.
• Responsible for product Validation backlog (maintaining and prioritizing).
• Define product requirements (working closely together with Business System Analyst and Product Designer) based on the data from customer research and competitor analysis.
• Formulating, prioritizing and verifying product hypotheses aimed to improve product metrics and reach the goals.
• Provide management insight regarding the performance of the team based on the customer and process measures (A-level).
• Communicate the product strategy to the development team.
• Align priorities with other product teams.
• Communication of the development plans (quarterly roadmaps) to the stakeholders.
• Define priorities for the development team on the iteration/quarter level.
• Clarify requirements during development, accept iteration results.

Process management aspects of the Role

• Working in collaboration with Team leader in order to improve the team’s processes and activities and break down business requirements into actionable software requirements.
• Responsible for the process of tasks monitoring, milestones and the project’s status in order to make it visible to the team and to other stakeholders.
• Responsible for all team activities moderation (daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives).
• Management of team activities within the sprint.
• Responsible for product Delivery backlog.
• Presenting the results of the iteration.
• Team’s goals approval within the team, providing to Product manager for final approval.
• Reporting on product metrics, creation of quarter team goals and further approval.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in Product owner/Project manager role for a development team (preferably in Agile environment).
• Experience overseeing multi-function project teams with at least 5-10 team members including Designers, Developers, Business Analysts, Data/Analytics, QA.
• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science or in “STEM” majors (science, technology, engineering and math).

Domain skills with proven and successful experience:

• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well a traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
• Experience with widely successful Agile techniques, User Stories, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing etc.
• Effectively prioritize projects and manage changes and customer expectations.
• Competitor analysis.
• Customer development.
• Product analytics.
• Defining product KPIs.
• Business modelling, P&L, ROI.
• Creating Go to Market Strategy.
• Understanding of universal product metrics (Retention, Churn Rate, LTV, conversion etc).
• Experience with A/B testing, UI/UX testing.

People skills with proven and successful experience:

• Excellent skills and knowledge of facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement.
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented, highly analytical, estimating, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Time Management skills.
• Presentation Skills.
• Fluency in written and verbal English, fluent Russian.

Company offers

• Exceptional relocation package to Cyprus for successful candidate and his/her family (tickets, visas, work permit, corporate flat for the first month, etc).
• Corporate car and parking near the office or a bus tickets.
• Medical insurance for employees and family members.
• Company fitness center for employees and their spouse.
• Kindergarten/school compensation program.
• Excellent office with fresh juices, cookies and the best view to the sea from their own roofbar.