Junior Product Owner

Job Description

Summary: The ideal candidate will be responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a software development team to ensure quality delivered by the requested features and functionalities of the product. He'll organize, prioritize, and assess work for our scrum team. He'll also understand the vision of a product from the point of view of customers, end users, or stakeholders and communicate it in a clear format to the development team to ensure they deliver the expected results. Roles & Responsibilities

• Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering valuable products and features.
• Foster open and effective communication within the Agile team to enable collaboration and alignment.
• Gather and analyze requirements from business users and stakeholders.
• Understand and prioritize end-user needs, preferences, and requests.
• Write clear, concise, and actionable user stories.
• Break down large user stories into smaller, manageable ones.
• Define and document acceptance criteria for each user story.
• Establish business acceptance criteria for user stories and feature requests.
• Continuously groom and prioritize the product backlog.
• Evaluate product progress at each iteration and provide insights for improvements.
• Provide timely feedback to the development team to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Plan and oversee releases and iteration schedules.
• Determine team capacity and velocity to optimize delivery.
• Create and update iteration/release burn-up and burn-down charts.
• Track iteration progress and update charts daily.
• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings to ensure transparency and team alignment.
• Validate the Definition of Done for user stories, iterations, and releases.
• Prepare and maintain iteration plans.
• Lead iteration retrospectives and document key takeaways for process improvements.
• Ensure customer feedback is properly recorded and categorized (e.g., bugs, new features).
• Support the team in continuously improving processes and Agile best practices.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Clarify requirements for the development team and promptly address inquiries.
• Conduct internal product review meetings to assess progress and align expectations.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog by:
  • Reviewing documented requirements to ensure complete business coverage and obtaining stakeholder approval.
  • Prioritizing backlog items based on business value and strategic goals.

Job Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in (computer science, or engineering) is preferred.
• 1-2 years of experience as a product owner is a must .
• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques
• Knowledge of Agile approaches like Kanban & Scrum
• Awareness and experience with User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing
• Ability to take and understand his commitment to deliver the product on time
• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures
• Knowledge about the value of metrics and incremental delivery
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity
• Familiarity with common development practices, Service oriented environments