Product Owner - Bristol, United Kingdom - Simitive -

Simitive -

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Simitive, an Innovative, fast growing, and privately owned Tech firm is looking for a talented Product Owner to join the existing team of tech professionals and contribute to the development and continued success of their business.

This is a chance to collaborate with technical professionals at the very top of their game

The Product Owner will report directly to the Head of technical Services and join an expanding team of enthusiastic and likeminded technology professionals.

We are looking for someone with an ability and a passion for writing clean, well-documented business requirements and act as bridge between stakeholders and technical team.

This is an exciting role best suited to a motivated self-starter with a great eye for detail and a desire to help people.

You will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and be a key member of the technical services department of the company.

This is currently a remote role.

However, we try to get together from time to time, for a project Kick-off, quarterly company meetings or just as team building or onboarding new team members.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

Take ownership of one of the product line squads and:
Communicate the vision to the squad members.
Managing the product backlog.
Participating in Scrum events.
Acting as the liaison between teams and stakeholders.
Evaluating feedback at each iteration.
Work effectively with senior business and IT stakeholders, conducting investigations at a strategic level and assuring the feasibility of proposed solutions. You'll take a holistic view of the business situations investigated, ensure that stakeholder perspectives are identified and analysed with a view to achieving consensus, so that business objectives and requirements are understood and provide a context with which recommended solutions are aligned;
Be advising senior stakeholders on business change priorities within the context of the organisational strategy and objectives;
Utilise business knowledge and experience to assess and advise on the feasibility and relevance of proposed options for business and technical change;
Be the lead for the detailed specification and modelling of holistic solutions using standards, methods and techniques as required. You'll maintain links with colleagues within related disciplines such as business operations, software engineering and service delivery functions and support the deployment of business and technical changes;
Use your skills to plan, arrange and facilitate meetings and workshops with stakeholders throughout the business change and software development lifecycles; taking responsibility for the management of stakeholder relationships across different levels of seniority;
Support business case development through the identification and definition of business and technical options that will address the business objectives and requirements, and the analysis of the costs, benefits, risks and impacts for each option;
Assist business stakeholders in defining acceptance tests for new business processes and IT systems, and take responsibility for the effective execution of the acceptance tests.

Skills and Qualifications:

Ability to identify areas of improvement, propose controls and write procedures that will drive efficiency.
Flexibility to support the needs of the business.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to talk and present to a range of audiences, and articulate complex concepts in a simple but accurate way.
The ability to motivate and encourage others and be a facilitator of change.
To work under pressure on multiple projects whilst using organisational skills to ensure delivery against project timeframes.
A passion for creating solutions with a positive attitude towards change.
Excellent analytical skills and an informed, evidencebased approach.
A strong interest in the development of the business.
An interest in, and understanding of, project management techniques and methodologies.
Ability to share an understanding of problems, outline the parameters of the project, and determine potential solutions.
The ability to work constructively and positively within multifunctional teams, engendering and supporting a common understanding across the team and business functions.

In return you will receive:

We will help develop your skills and help you to align your career expectations with our company vision.
We will allocate time to conferences, training, and certifications to keep up with your technical curiosity.
You will be key in the creation and implementation of our technical roadmap.
You will get a competitive salary and our Simitive benefits package.

Simitive is a sponsor and supporter of: Bristol Women in Business, Women's Work Lab, Motherboard

We are not able to offer sponsorship so you must be eligible to live and work in the UK.