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We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to play an influential role in the competitive evolution of Web Hosting portfolio.

You will be part of a scrum team/s where you will represent our customers’ needs and be responsible for managing and prioritising your backlog of product requirements.

What you’ll do

• Use your product skills, industry knowledge, and competitive research to conduct in-depth discovery to understand and break down the product vision into sequenced features and stories for product development.

• You will work with a large group of stakeholders including platform and software engineering, UX, QA, customer communications, marketing, customer service, and legal.

• Participate in all relevant team meetings and ceremonies to support the execution of your team’s prioritised features.

• Understand customers’ pain points and ensure new features and enhancements drive value for our customers.

• Ensure new features are implemented and measure that the desired customer value is met.

• Be an involved member of the product team and contribute to continuous improvement of our way of work

• Assist in defining priorities according to business value, complexity, and expectations

• Work closely with stakeholders across the organization to make sure that you and the team provide for the company’s short- and long-term goals.

• Expertly manage the components of the product delivery cycle, from MVP slicing and user stories to testing and delivery.

• Manage your own and the team’s availability – given stakeholders across the globe, we sometimes need to join/host meetings outside typical office hours.

Requirements

Who you are

• critical thinker, skilled at blending different perspectives in the pursuit of a mission.
• have a curious mind with a logical and structured approach to problem-solving and always strive for simplicity.
• have excellent leadership and relationship-building skills.
• You are an excellent communicator and storyteller, engaging with your audience on a personal level.
• You are good at sorting out ambiguity.

• You have a proven track record of 3 – 5 years in developing products, preferably using agile development methodologies.
• You have a good understanding of the software development cycle.
• You are structured and give close attention to details.
• You are persistent and rational in that you put facts above speculation.

Bonus skills

Domain knowledge of popular open-source content management and related business process systems.

Experience in Domain Driven Design would be an advantage.