Senior Product Owner

Company Description

Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea, Bucharest, Timisoara and 20 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.

A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.

With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.

Job Description

Product Design Chapter Stream

Product Design Chapter Stream brings together Product Owners, Business Analysts and UX/UI Designers in their common journey to product mindset. We are genuinely curious professionals, and we approach every project with product-oriented activities, so that we understand the needs first and then provide the best solutions possible.

You will join a community of like-minded professionals and benefit from learning programs & resources, certifications and knowledge sharing sessions.

Your role

Product Management

• Perform market research and competition analysis to understand the market, industry, and customer profile
• Collaborate with the client to understand the current product environment and contribute to its future state (i.e. Discovery Workshops)
• Consistently identify, understand, and document business needs
• Facilitate and moderate the interactions between business and IT stakeholders
• Apply business acumen when connecting concepts from discovery and delivery to the business domain
• Define the product vision in the project context and articulate the product objectives, determine the solution scope, identify constraints
• Create relevant prototypes contributing to the product validation
• Document the functional and non-functional requirements, define the specific context, activity, and entity-relationship diagrams
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog for development: write and estimate user stories with the development team. Contribute to milestones as needed and ensure that the acceptance criteria are defined accordingly
• Manage the product roadmap: propose implementation roadmap to the customer, understand business objectives for the roadmap, guide stakeholders and challenge priorities
• Perform functional testing actions

Collaboration

• Partner with the client and different stakeholders from the client’s side during the Discovery Workshops as well as with other team members (i.e. Project Delivery Managers, Software Architects, UX/UI Designers)
• Facilitate the collaboration between all the stakeholders involved in the process
• Focus on the benefits of applying a certain methodology or principle, and promote it to others
• Contribute to a supporting environment for all teams, encourage product experimentation and continuous learning
• Train, mentor, and coach other Product Owners, enabling knowledge and know-how scalability at organizational level

Operations

• Map the working processes, recommend, and adopt all standard product management techniques in the day-to-day operations
• Apply product management methodologies and processes while using relevant tools
• Ensure all project artefacts are documented in a timely manner in accordance with Accesa policies and agreed project terms
• Report product status to the Project Delivery Manager and directly to customers when needed
• Propose process improvements, as well as cost and time optimization actions

Qualifications

Mandatory:

• 5+ years’ of experience working in a similar role
• Very good ability to understand the business context
• Experience in applying agile methodologies
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills
• Good communication skills (i.e. active listening, ability to communicate complex ideas effectively)
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Proven client facing and stakeholder management experience, manifesting focus on customer needs and business value
• Ability to manage change and work in a dynamic environment
• Self-organized, detail-oriented, and willing to continuously self-improve
• Interaction with collaboration and tracking tools (i.e. Azure DevOps, Jira, Miro, Mural, Trello)
• Understand the software development lifecycle
• Spoken and written fluency in English

Is highly appreciated:

• Technical knowledge (i.e. HTTP methods, Postman, SQL, Sequence Diagram)
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field such as Economics, Business, Computer Science or similar

Additional Information

At Accesa you can

Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe come together to support our wellbeing, covering social, physical, emotional wellbeing, as well as work-life fusion.

• Physical: premium medical package for both our colleagues and their children, dental coverage up to a yearly amount, eyeglasses reimbursement every two years, voucher for sport equipment expenses, in-house personal trainer
• Emotional: individual therapy sessions with a certified psychotherapist, webinars on self-development topics
• Social: virtual activities, sports challenges, special occasions get-togethers
• Work-life fusion: yearly increase in days off, flexible working schedule, birthday, holiday and loyalty gifts for major milestones