Product Owner (Software Product Delivery)

Join Our Growing Team - Future Opportunities Await!

We are excited to share that our company is experiencing significant growth and expansion, and as a result, we're on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.

We want to be upfront about our hiring process. At this moment, we are in the process of securing projects that align with our business goals and objectives. Our intention is to ensure that once we bring new team members on board, they will have a meaningful and impactful role to play from day one. While we might not be able to extend an offer immediately, we are highly interested in considering you for these future projects.

If you're open to the idea of potentially joining our team in the future, we encourage you to continue with our interview process. We value your time and effort and believe that getting to know you better will help us make an informed decision.

Once you have effectively concluded the entire recruitment procedure, we will retain your profile and reach out to you once a suitable opportunity emerges. Additional interviews will not be necessary at this stage, and we anticipate being able to extend an offer to you promptly.

What does our recruitment process look like?

This step will take around 60 mins.

3. Interview 2 with our PM TeamIn this meeting your potential future teammate will take a deeper dive into your experience and what you could bring to the team.
This step will take around 30 mins.4. Final Interview
You made it to the very last stage! Here we already strive to cooperate with you and give you an opportunity to meet our leadership team during this informal talk. This step will take around 30 mins.
Thank you for considering the opportunity to be a part of our growing journey. We look forward to the possibility of working together and achieving great things.

gravity9 is a boutique IT consulting company head-quartered in the UK with offices in the US, Poland, Ireland, and Colombia. Our team has deep experience in engineering, experience design and product management. We enjoy a challenge and pride ourselves on working with our clients on their most complex problems, finding elegant and flexible solutions that help them transform their businesses.

Role Description
We are looking for an energetic, sharp, and communicative Product Owner with a positive attitude and a keen interest in current technology and engineering. You will be involved in working with our clients and development teams to own, shape and drive the products we create. Leveraging best practices, you will be involved in the design and implementation of software products that are transforming industries. 
We believe small, multi-disciplinary teams are most effective in delivering complex change. As such, we are looking for someone with a collaborative mindset who is happy to be flexible and take on different responsibilities over the lifetime of our projects.
Key responsibilities for the role include:

Vision/Roadmap

• Define product vision and roadmap by collaborating with client stakeholders as well as internal engineering and experience teams.
• Guide client stakeholders in business, engineering, infrastructure, data, and product support with different points of view towards consensus, cut through any noise and drive towards identified business goals
• Lead requirements gathering working sessions in collaboration with experienced designers and engineering teams to identify and define requirements towards product vision and roadmap, prioritize and negotiate scope agreement as required
• Create a product backlog that documents requirements in epics and user stories, ensure the product backlog is clear and concise

Development

• Lead an agile team consisting of software engineers, experience designers and quality assurance engineers
• Prioritize product feature backlog based on importance and dependencies, plan development of the product with a focus on maximizing value
• Support the team and refine user stories if needed so the engineering teams can create and implement the most effective technical solution

Release/Support

• Lead the planning of incremental product releases and set expectations for delivery of new functionality, negotiate agreement on a schedule
• Deliver products that provide measurable results towards the identified business goals
• Be the product expert and single contact for any product related questions, be able to communicate what the business needs, understand the why and convey the message to all stakeholders using technical language as required
• Provide clear and concise communication on the status of the implementation
• Raise issues and concerns internally and with the client and facilitate agreement to a path forward

Requirements

Role requirements and experience
This role will suit a highly capable Product Owner with at least five years’ experience. Skills and experience must include:

• Ability to take a vision and break it down into smaller bodies of work
• In-depth knowledge and experience of Agile process and principles
• Software product delivery OR software engineering background
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to navigate different types of environments
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Education: Degree in computer science or another STEM subject is preferred, either at MSc or BSc level, but alternative education paths will be considered
  
  Key attributes and behaviors to succeed in this role will be:

• Passionate about product – Drives to deliver a product for clients that match to their vision, business needs.
• Delivery focus - strong analysis and problem-solving skills. Ability to evaluate, design and implement effective solutions. Flexibility to adapt skills to a spectrum of client engagements, use cases and modes of change delivery.
• Exemplary standards of personal integrity and respect for others – professional approach to all aspects of client engagement and collaborative team working, able to quickly build relationships based on trust and transparency. Strong presentation and written and verbal communication are essential given the client facing nature of the role.
• Value driven - Creative thinking, with aptitude for innovation and strong desire to exceed client expectations.
• Energy – positive attitude and determination to learn and succeed.